Leadershift Flashcards
To be successful people need to learn
Leadership
Leader ship is complex and adaptive because it involves
People
Leadership walks into the
Unknown
Principles of management relied on stability + known factors. Because of this it tends to be
Linear
Fast is now ___. Forward is___.
Faster. Shorter.
Because of the pace of change leaders need to be
Flexible
An ability and willingness to make a leader ship change that will positively enhance organizational and personal growth is a
Leader shift
Brian Matrinuzzi cited three qualities of leader ship in years ahead. The ability to do what three things M.W.Fc.
Motivate, work well across cultures, facilitate change
Motivating, working well across cultures, facilitating change all require
Adaptability
91% of future recruiting will be based on ability to deal with
Change and uncertainty/ambiguity
What strength is based upon confidence in oneself and one’s own judgment and abilities
Adaptability
To move around an object but also move the object is to be like
Water
Every advance you make as a leader requires a leadershift that changes the way you (3)
Think, act, lead
Because the world doesn’t remain the same you can’t be
The same
Malcolm Gladwell said you have a responsibility to be constantly
Updating your positions
Malcolm Gladwell said if you’re not contradicting yourself on a regular basis you’re not
Thinking
Use this to get rid of old thinking and promote health of our leadership
Mental floss
This moves us forward in the face of temptation to be mentally rigid
Leader shifting
Every leader shift has potential to make you
Better leader
Leader shifting will create a struggle/tension between
Stability and adaptability
Leader shifting requires that you rely on your (Two)
Values and principles
This pushes you to rely on innovation to seek options and harness creativity
Strategy
Number one in seven things to leader shift successfully is continually do what with learning
Learn, unlearn, relearn
Number two in things to leader shift successfully is value yesterday but
Live in today
Number three in seven things to leadershift successfully is rely on speed but thrive on
Timing
Speed is___, but timing is___.
Required, a choice
Number four in seven things to leader shift successfully is see the big picture as the picture keeps
Getting bigger
Everything rises and falls on
Leader ship
With respect to layered learning, growth is
Continual
Number five in seven things to leadershift successfully is live in today but think
About tomorrow
Positive future = good___+ good___
Dream, team
If you are aware of what you need or want you will be better able to (2)
See it and attract it
Number six in seven things to leader shift successfully is move forward courageously in the midst of
Uncertainty
More courage = more___.
Expansion
Courageous decisions can lead to
Greatness
Uncertainty about future isn’t going away. That is why there are
Leaders
Number seven in seven things to leader shift Is realized today’s best will not meet
Tomorrow’s challenges
Best way to have good choices tomorrow is to make
Right choices today
Good is the enemy of___.
Best is the enemy of___.
Great, better
To get better you must learn something
New
To get better you must try something
Different
To get better you must find something
Better
To get better you must see something
Bigger
The shift of soloist to conductor is the___shift
Focus
Who said you can get everything you want in life if you will just help enough other people get what they want
Zig Ziglar
Another phrase for soloist to conductor is___to___
Me to we
Go slower so you can go___together
Farther
Don’t be___ At the top
Lonely
Leaders have a natural biased toward
Action
Travel___others not___
With, ahead
In the leadership dance step___,___,___
Ahead, beside, behind
Good organizations are not about the leaders it’s about
All the people in them
To help others reach their potential slow down and
Take the journey with them
Recognize that you need
Others
When competing you have a___mindset
Scarcity
When completing you have an___Mindset
Abundance
Competing involves___thinking
Single
Completing involves___thinking
Shared
To lead, you must understand how it feels to be
Led
Good leaders do what they can to put others in the position to
Win
Highlight___
Others
See the possibilities in all___
People
Honor in___
Public
Thank people and let them know they are
Valued
Invite others to help achieve
Vision
Take the focus off your self and help others to become
Better every day
Three questions followers ask of leaders
Do you care for me
Can I trust you
Can you help me
If people are skeptical of leaders they likely don’t want to
Become leaders themselves
Change focus from receiving
Giving
Don’t ask yourself well I reap a harvest today but have I
Sewed seeds today
The soloist - conductor shift changes you from a___Focus to___focus
Self, others
Never wait to add
Value
Add value when
Daily and as often as possible
Give without keeping score and motives stay
Pure
Welcome any return as an unexpected
Blessing
Who wrote leader shift and what was his profession
John Maxwell, Pastor turned leader ship speaker
James crocker and his lobsters… What you keep you___; what you lose you___
What you keep you lose; What do you lose you keep
Anticipate opportunities to add value and you’ll
See them
The cycle of finding and adding value BAIFOAP
Belief, anticipation, intention, focus, opportunity, action, passion
Be the___to give or add value to another
First
People remember who helped them___
First
This should not be the motive for giving
Receiving
Keeping score will lessen the joy of
Giving
Which is greater? Recognition of giving or return for giving? But do even if not?
Recognition, Being recognized
Goals to growth is the___ ___Shift
Personal development
What were Maxwells two goals at the beginning of his career
Help his congregation members
Grow church to 500
Lessons learned along the way are more important than
Hitting the goal
Goals help you___better
Growth helps you___better
Do, become
With Growth change, Shift of mindset from Growth outward to
Growth inward
Growth on the inside fuels
Growth on the outside
Growth changes from
Growth in everything to growth in
Growth in a few
Qualities of successful people
___attitude
Ability to develop___ ___
Positive, strong relationships
Lead others to become leaders for an organizations
Sustainability
Four areas to focus your growth
R. E. A. L.

Relationships, equipping, attitude, leadership
 Growth with a timeline versus growth without a finish line. Not how long will it take, but how
Far can this go
Does growth oriented culture value development or achievement
Development
Does growth oriented culture focus on status or stretching
Stretching
Does growth oriented culture honor serving or privilege
Serving
Does growth oriented culture emphasize the teacher or the student
Student
In growth oriented culture is the target growth or arrival
Growth
In goal oriented culture is the value in development or achievement
Achievement
Goal oriented culture focus on stretching or status
Status
Does goal oriented culture honor privilege or serving
Privilege
Is goal oriented culture emphasizing the student or the teacher
Teacher
In goal oriented culture is the target arrival for growth
Arrival
Which is greater? Goal oriented culture or growth organic culture
Growth
Growths highest reward is not what we get from it but what we
Become from it
If you get better that makes you
Bigger
The only thing that can guarantee tomorrow will be better than today
Growth
To become a growth oriented person you must embrace
Change
To become a growth oriented person you must adopt a___ ___
Teachable spirit
To have a teachable spirit with regard to learning you must have P. I. And R. A. (learning related)
Passion to learn
Intention to learn
Reflect on what you learn
Apply what you learned
Your love for learning should be greater than your
Fear of failure
Failure isn’t failure if you ____
Learn
Action reduces___and increases___
Fear, courage
Fail how?
Early, often, and forward
Developing relationships and surrounding yourself with other growing people put you in
Growth environments
Elmer towns, mentor/author said a hot poker remains hot if
Kept near fire
To develop greater___, you don’t have to deny your strengths but be honest about your weaknesses
Humility
This is the essence of humility
Being able to admit when you’re wrong
Believe in yourself. This is the law of the mirror:
You must see value in yourself to add value to yourself
What you think of yourself determines the investment
You make in yourself
Embrace what type of learning
Layered learning
Layered learning requires these two things
Time and intentionality
Layered learning gives you a bigger
Picture
Layered learning determines four things of principle D. L. C. Ci.
Depth
Length
Consistency
Compounding impact
Not only does layered learning give you a bigger picture but it gives you a
Better picture
CS Lewis said learning is not like a train but like a
Tree gaining new rings while keeping the old ones
Growth perspective.Few things have a greater impact on shifting from ___To___
Goals to growth
Your level of success will never exceed your level of
Personal development
Perks to price shift is also known as the
Cost shift
Napoleon Hill said Strength and growth come through
Continuous effort and struggle
Why do you want to be a leader? For the perks? No because of what you can
Do for others
People will listen when
The real leader speaks
Focus on perks leads to the misuse of
Leadership
The price is what stands between you and
Your potential
If you want to be a better leader you need to
Pay for it
Number one of the three common costs is reality that everything worthwhile is
Uphill
Navy vice admiral James Stockdale and the Stockdale paradox. The optimists died of
Broken hearts
Jim Collins writes about James Stockdale and says retain faith that you will_____regardless of the difficulties and at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your_____
Prevail in the end
Current reality
When you don’t prepare for the worst the worst
Wins
When taking others on a journey be upfront about the
Hard part
You must be an example and acknowledge you must climb the hill
First
All leaders must see things___others and see___than others
Before, more
Being first isn’t a perk it’s a
Cost to be paid
Follow me leaders believe in themselves___and___than others do
Before and more
Don’t expect anyone to believe something
You don’t believe yourself
Paul Harvey said if you don’t live it you don’t
Believe it
