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The Secretan? Leadership Retreat

• Inspirational Leadership?
• Destiny,
• Calling and
• Cause

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Old Story New Story.
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The purpose of a business is to make a
profit(background of Fortune 500/financial
statements, business magazine covers, etc.)

• Milton Friedman

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The Old Story of Leadership

• Develop a Shared a Vision
• Orchestrate the buy-in to the Vision
• Develop a Strategy to Achieve the Vision
• Motivate Employees and Implement the Strategy

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Where has all this led us?
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Peanuts Cartoon How Does the Other Team Feel?
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1. Awareness, Self-Responsibility, Accountability
Three Powerful Energies of Change
2. Leadership Fatigue
3. Meaning and fulfillment
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The Millenium Effect
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• Critical Mass

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The Omega Point
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Critical Mass Shapes the New Marketing
Netscape logo first

• From Scarcity to Abundance

Followed by Linux logo
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From Things to Relationships and Communities

• 1. Material

2. Spiritual
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Treating Employees as the Customers of the Leader
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Profit is like oxygen essential for our survival
but not the reason for our existence.
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How do we reawaken the Spiritual Responsibility
of the Organization?
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The real voyage of discovery comes not in seeking
new landscapes but in having new eyes

• Marcel Proust

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The Three Ages of Power
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The Three Ages of Power

• The Age of Aries
• Physical Power

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• The Warrior The Arien Leader Archetype

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The Three Ages of Power

• The Age of Pisces
• Intellectual Power

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• The Mentor The Piscean Leader Archetype

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The Three Ages of Power

• The Age of Aquarius
• Spiritual Power

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• The Servant The Aquarian Leader Archetype

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Pictures of Whole Food Markets (1)
2/3 majority vote and 30 day trial for a new team
member (4)
Declaration of Interdependence (3)
Wage Disclosure Report (5)
Mission Whole Foods, Whole People, Whole Planet
(2)
11,000 insiders (2,500 Options Holders) (9)
Store Tour (7)
34th. Best Company to Work for in America
(Fortune) (10)
10 Times Average Salary Cap (6)
20 Community Service Hours (8)
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Confusing Motivation with Inspiration

• Motivation to provide a motive to induce,
  incite, impel

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Confusing Motivation with Inspiration

• Motivation to provide a motive to induce,
  incite, impel
• Inspiration from the Latin spirare, meaning
  spirit, to breathe, to give life, the breath of
  God

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Confusing Motivation with Inspiration

• Motivation to provide a motive to induce,
  incite, impel
• Inspiration breathing in, as in air to the
  lungs to infuse with an encouraging or exalting
  influence to animate stimulation by a divinity,
  a genius, an idea or a passion a divine
  influence upon human beings

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Taubman Corporation
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• Dead Poets Society.

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• From driven
• to inspired.

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• From tired
• to inspired.

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(1) Korean DMZ
(3) Acorn
(2)Hiroshima Trumpet Flower

• (4) A Jackpine

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Inspirational Leadership
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Inspirational Leadership

• Step 1 Defining our Destiny The Uniqueness
  Within that Calls to be Lived

Pictures of Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Buddha,
Christ
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Inspirational Leadership

• Step 1 Defining our Destiny The Uniqueness
  Within that Calls to be Lived

Picture of Jerry Chamales (Omni), Jim McCann
(1-800-FLOWERS), Tom Block (H R Block)
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Inspirational Leadership

• Step 1 Defining our Destiny The Uniqueness
  Within that Calls to be Lived
• Step 2 Defining the Cause - Creating a Magnetic
  Vision

Picture of Hunter Patch Adams
Picture of Konosuke Matsushita
The mission of a manufacturer should be to
overcome poverty, to relieve society as a whole
from misery, and bring it wealth
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Jeffersons Compromise
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The Cause

• Changing the world by reawakening spirit and
  values in the workplace

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Behind The Cause

• Inspired People.

Inspired Teams.
Inspired Communities.
Inspired World
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"A true leader is one who designs the cathedral
and then shares the vision that inspires others
to build it."

• Jan Carlzon, "Moments of Truth"

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Inspirational Leadership

• Step 1Defining our Destiny The Uniqueness
  Within that calls to be Lived
• Step 2 Defining the Cause - Creating a Magnetic
  Vision
• Step 3 Enabling Followers to Find their Calling

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"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is
doing its best to make you everybody else means
to fight the hardest battle which any human being
can fight and never stop fighting."

• e.e. cummings

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Ones real life is often the life one does not
lead.

• Oscar Wilde

Picture of Jeff Bezos
Picture of Scott Adams and Dilbert
Picture of Leo Burnett
Picture of George Gallup
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Inspirational Leadership

• Step 1 Defining our Destiny The Uniqueness
  Within that Calls to be Lived
• Step 2 Defining the Cause - Creating a Magnetic
  Vision
• Step 3 Enabling Followers to Find their Calling
• Step 4 Aligning the Calling with the Cause

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• The Terminator Seed
• Monsanto

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How does my work help to achieve the Cause?How
does my contribution fit into the bigger
picture?Does my work enable me to use my
deepest creative gifts?Will my work make a
difference to the world, will it have meaning,
and will it make the world a better place?How
does my work meet my spiritual needs?Is this
how I want to be in the Universe?
What We All Want to Know About our Work
? ? ? ? ?
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• Helicopter

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• When the Concert Pianist played Franz Liszts
  Liebestraum No. 3 in A flat minor...

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Inspirational Leadership

• Step 1 Defining our Destiny The Uniqueness
  Within that Calls to be Lived
• Step 2 Defining the Cause - Creating a Magnetic
  Vision
• Step 3 Enabling Followers to Find their Calling
• Step 4 Aligning the Calling with the Cause
• Step 5 Serving Followers

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• All I needed to know about Servant-leadership, I
  learned from my Mom

Mom
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The People Whisperer
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NAMASTE!I honor the place in
you where the entire universe resides,I honor
the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of
peace.I honor the place within you where,If you
are in that place in you And I am in that place
in me,There is only one of us!
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the
world."
WWJD

• Mohandas K. Gandhi

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Inspirational Leadership

• Step 1 Defining our Destiny The Uniqueness
  Within that Calls to be Lived
• Step 2 Defining the Cause - Creating a Magnetic
  Vision
• Step 3 Enabling Followers to Find their Calling
• Step 4 Aligning the Calling with the Cause
• Step 5 Serving Followers
• Step 6 Guiding the Contribution of Brilliance
• Take care of the followers inner needs first.
  Brilliant implementation will result

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Disengagement

• 1. Defining the Cause

2. Implementing it
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The Inspirational Leader as symphony conductor
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Inspiring People to Greatness Through Strengths
not Weaknesses
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• Brilliance and the Balance-Point

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The Five Balls of Life
Health
Work
Family
Friends
Spirit
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How do we get them to change?
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Courage
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones
courage.
Anaïs Nin
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CourageAuthenticity
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The Metaphor of the Skin Horse from The
Velveteen Rabbit.
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CourageAuthenticity(the light that leads
to)Love
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CourageAuthenticity(the light that leads
to)Love
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Metta - Loving Kindness
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is
the prerogative of the brave.

• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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CourageAuthenticityLoveGrace
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Grace is nothing more than a certain beginning of
glory within us.
St. Thomas Aquinas
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CourageAuthenticityLoveGrace
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the tides and
gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of
love, and then, for a second time in the history
of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Inspirational Leadership (The Magic Ingredient
X)

• Step 1 Defining our Destiny The Uniqueness
  Within that Calls to be Lived
• Step 2 Defining the Cause - Creating a Magnetic
  Vision
• Step 3 Enabling Followers to Find their Calling
• Step 4 Aligning the Calling with the Cause
• Step 5 Serving Followers
• Step 6 Guiding the Contribution of Brilliance
• Step 7 Creating the Environment that Encourages
  Followers to Inspire their Leader

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Enhancing the Spiritual Quotient (SQ) of Teams
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In saying what I have in mind, will I really
improve on the silence?

• Robert F. Greenleaf

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• Promoting, protecting and remaining consistent
  with the Cause
• Being passionate about their calling
• Telling the truth and keeping promises to each
  other and the leader
• Inspiring each other and the leader
• Being open and willing to learn and change
• Teaching each other and learning together
• Being alert to and recommending new team members
• Being adaptable and capable of leading when
  appropriate
• Contributing to the team energy
• Augmenting the spiritual intensity of the team

Followership
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Talk to my Yin

• ?

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The Soulspace

• The example of the Secretan Center

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Inspirational Leadership

• Step 1 Defining our Destiny The Uniqueness
  Within that Calls to be Lived
• Step 2 Defining the Cause - Creating a Magnetic
  Vision
• Step 3 Enabling Followers to Find their Calling
• Step 4 Aligning the Calling with the Cause
• Step 5 Serving Followers
• Step 6 Guiding the Contribution of Brilliance
• Step 7 Creating the Environment that Encourages
  Followers to Inspire their Leader

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Hundreds of people can talk for one who can
think, but thousands can think for one who can
see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and
religion - all in one.

• John Ruskin