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  • Because ‘toast lands on the buttered side!’

    Parkinson's Law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." - The Peter Principle is the principle that "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence." - Baruch's Observation is "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." - Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology, “there is always one more bug.” - Ducharme's Axiom, "If you view your problem closely enough you will recognise yourself as part of the problem." - Executivecoachingguru says, "people will believe anything if you lean in intently and whisper it"

  • Brand You – Top Tips

    1. Accessorise so the top boys see you as one of them, don't over reach, just go for the next level. I know it sounds superficial (and it is), but you have to look like you belong in the club. But always remember 'subtle classic elegance' always beats 'trendy, flash and loadsa money'. Your accessories are reflecting your reliability and common sense and for heavens sake there is no point having a £500/$900 suit if you have a £50/$90 watch. 2. Have an elevator pitch of the benefits of what you are doing, not just the activities you are doing. Rehearse it, with eye contact and emotional content. 3. Understand who your boss is sucking up to and do it better. 4. Only put yourself forward for things that will succeed. 5. If you're responsible for it, then you should be in charge of it. 6. Seek 'face to face' feedback, tell them what you are going to do, do it, ask for feedback. Continue forever. 7. Have integrity. Stand for something. You don't have to be right, but you do have to have an opinion. 8. Be seen, press the flesh, have a tangible presence, take the long way everywhere, so people know you're around. 9. Practice your reactions and behaviours untill what isn't natural becomes natural, the first time to find out what you sound and look like when challenging someone, shouldn't actually BE the first time! 10. Don't gossip! Ever! I mean it! It'll kill your career faster than a bullet!

  • Life is a one shot deal, leadership is only truly authentic when you lead as a whole person

    "If I had my life to live over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax, I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments. And if I had it to do over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I've been one of those people who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat and a parachute. If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have. If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies." - Attributed to Nadine Stair (85 years young)

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  • “I have come to the frightening conclusion…

    That I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.” - J.W.Goethe

Leadership Speeches

Whether actor, historic figure or a moment in time captured for biography the impact of the clips below are in the authenticity of their intent. How is this done? The answer it seems is via total congruence with ones heart, body and mind! For example as an executive coach I have shown the Our Greatest Fear clip to many clients and though it lasts not even a minute it continually touches people.

Not every clip will resonate with you, but if one does then it’s done its job.

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Think Different

Powerful video that empowers the watcher to consider:
“That the power of individualism is within all of us, and that we all
have the strength to have an impact?”

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The Power of ONE

I like this video the more I watch it, I think the question I get from it is:
“Why can’t I be the one in the domain in which I live?”

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Soul Biographies

- Nic creates the films, words, music & images for the Soul Biographies Project.
His short films capture people & life through a unique lens, giving us a direct experience of the human soul.
From the famous to the entirely unknown, Nic’s film subject’s have no tangible pattern save the common spark of ‘life & curiosity’ which play out in front of his camera.

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Desmond Tutu on Leadership

- Desmond Tutu speaking on the subject of leadership to the Nobel Prize organization, on the subject of leadership.

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Our Greatest Fear

- Marianne Williamson – Return to Love,1992
As featured in Coach Carter with Samuel L. Jackson

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Colonel Tim Collins

- Colonel Tim Collins‘ speech to around 800 men of the battlegroup of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment, part of the 16 Air Assault Brigade given at their Fort Blair Mayne camp in the Kuwaiti desert about 20 miles from the Iraqi border on Wednesday 19 March 2003.
As enacted by Kenneth Branagh

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Fighting for the Inches

Al Pacino – Any Given Sunday,1999

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John F Kennedy – “Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You, But What You Can Do For Your Country”

John F Kennedy at his inauguration in Washington on January 20 1961.

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Martin Luther King – “I have a dream”

- Martin Luther King
Delivered 28th August 1963, Lincolm Memorial, Washington DC

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Henry V – St.Crispians Day Speech

William Shakespeare - Henry V, Act 4, Scene 3
As enacted by Kenneth Branagh, 1989

 

Any thoughts on these clips or ones that should be included?
Then let me know.

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