Leading You Me & We 01 Introduction - INGLES

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Session 1
Introduction to the 
Program
• In this program we're going to delve into leadership, but from a perspective that's 
never been done before. Most courses are designed for the Fortune 500 CEO, not the 
small business entrepreneur.
• The different segments of this course:
1. Section #1: Work on our minds to see the world and leadership differently.
2. Section #2: Leading ourselves - if you can't lead yourself, you can't lead anyone 
else.
3. Section #3: Leading one other person - a group is essentially made up of 
individuals. If you don't know how to lead one other person, you won't be able to 
lead a group either because you won't be able to lead the components of the 
group.
4. Section #4: Leading a small group.
5. Section #5: How to take these skills to the world to create positive change through 
leading people.
• Why is leadership important?
1. If you learn it, you'll have more influence and become very attractive to other 
people. They may even say things like "I feel like I'm the best me when I'm around 
you."
2. If you don't learn it, when you try to exert your power and influence, others will 
recoil from you.
• Leadership is seeing the world the way it COULD be, and communicating that 
reality to people in a way that inspires and motivates them to go there with you.
• Leadership is about looking at other people, cultivating the ability to see where they 
want to go but don't realize it yet, and then helping them bring them there... for 
them.
• The Good is the enemy of the Great. If you're satisfied there's no drive to look for 
anything better.
• Develop the ability to see the future - not like a crystal ball - but be able to imagine a 
better future and then bring it to reality.
• Most of us don't have a good imagination - we're constrained about how our life or 
business is right now - we don't see the possibilities.
• It's easy to complain. It's harder to come up with solutions... and then make them 
happen.
• Stop being problem focused, start being solution focused. First see things how they 
are, then come up with a better vision, and then take action to make it happen.
• If you can see a better vision, are you willing to do something about it? If not you, 
then who? We frequently don't see ourselves as a leader, but if you can see a better 
world, you can take responsibility to start making it real.
• It's not enough to have the will - you need a realistic plan to get there. And it's not 
enough to have a plan, you need to execute it well too.
• The steps: 
1. Dissatisfaction 
2. Vision 
3. Plan 
4. Plan execution
• The Steve Jobs, John Sculley story: "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling 
carbonated sugar water, or do you want a chance to change the world?"