James T Reese

James T Reese

http://www.jamestreese.com/

Strategic Leadership

When someone cuts you off in traffic, consider they’ve had 3 cups of cafe & 2 bran muffins…need the bathroom bad.

Personal responsibility

Be a Servant...whether the person you’re serving knows it or not

Eagles v Ducks

Attitude

Silence & listening è wisdom

Leading Change– John Kotter

1.     Establish a sense of urgency

2.     Create a guiding coalition

3.     Develop a change vision

4.     Communicate the vision for buy-in

5.     Empower broad-based action

6.     Generate short-term wins

7.     Never let up

8.     Incorporate change into the culture

My Wife says I’m a model husband:

Model = greatly reduced version of the real thing

Gibson: your dog is your best therapist

Life is a classroom

Experience is the teacher

and my Choices are the test.

I know what I'm doing right/wrong

Life’s not fair:

·       A Fair = where pigs win ribbons

·       If life were fair, Elvis would be alive, and the impersonators would be dead.

If you pass the guy in 2nd place are you in?

Decision making trap

The Confirming-Evidence Trap

This trap is the bias that leads us to seek out information to support our existing point of view while avoiding information that contradicts it.

The Framing Trap

How you make a decision is often determined by how you view your choices or how you frame the questions around it.

Frame As a Gain or As a Loss

People are risk averse and will look for reasons to turn down or avoid a decision where a loss, however small, is possible even if a larger chance exists for an upside gain.

Estimating and Forecasting Traps

1. The Overconfidence Trap

We believe we are better at making forecasts or estimates than we actually are.

2. The Prudence Trap

People are often overly cautious or prudent in forecasting..

3. The Recallability Trap

Because we frequently base our predictions about the future on our memories of the past, we can be overly influenced by dramatic events those that leave a strong impression on us.

Anchoring trap

·       Un-chosen anchors: sexuality, religion, race, nationality, geography, history à influence our decisions

Sunken cost trap

·       Knowing when to cut your losses

Status quo trap

·       doing nothing IS a decision

“I've cut this board 4 times & it's still too short”

Deciding isn't acting

Listen – Learn - Lead

Service

Must never cease to learn

In the morning, if I’m not touching wood, get up and learn something.

Epictetus - individuals are responsible for their own actions, which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline.  Suffering occurs from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. It is our duty to care for all our fellow men. Those who follow these precepts will achieve happiness and peace of mind = Serenity.

Impossible to learn what you think you already know

Attitude = fuel

Integrityàlooking forward to the consequences of your voluntary acts

Path of least resistance - rivers & crooks

To thy on self be true.  Polonius to his son Laertes in Hamlet. Take care of yourself first and that way you’ll be in a position to take care of others.

Ethics / moral principles

Effective police supervision

Stimuli à perception àreaction àbehavior

Anger vs acceptance ( behavior)

Anthony Sadillo - handout

Never let your bait get bigger than your boat.  Ldrship - don't get overwhelmed...delegate.  But you're responsible

Decision Making = risk

Doing what you believe in è courage

Learners inherit the Earth. The learned find themselves equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Change:

Avoid

Try to Change the world, not yourself.

Anger is the poison we swallow .... hoping the other guy dies.

There are 293 ways to change a dollar.

Quarter-3 coins & one of them can't be a dime (2 dimes and nickel [not a dime])

The Past- get over it & get on with it

Present- start from where you are.  Gift. I'm not going to allow x to take the zip out of my dooda.

Zippity doo dah, Zippity aye,
My oh my what a wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine coming my way,
Zippity doo dah, Zippity aye.

Mister blue bird's on my shoulder,,
it's the truth,
it's actual,
everything's satisfactual!
Zippity doo dah,
zippity aye,
zippity doo dah,
zippity aye!

Work ethic- we're the only animal who works for a living.

Work ethic –the value we place hard work and diligence. Iclude being reliable, having initiative, or pursuing new skills..

Leadershipè character

Live on the edge

Leadership- responsibility& accountability - ownership

Possibility thinking

I’m going to keep running the life’s race until I break the tape

The 2nd mouse gets the cheese – the first mouse get the trap.

211 one degree below boiling-----212=steam/energy---- move locomotive

·       Steam + direction

·       Positive attitude

http://www.funnysign.com/

Attitude is everything - Harrell

Snowmen fall from the sky unassembled

What have I accomplished?  “Nothing” (…yet).

Create a positive attitude.  Start today to create a new ending

Lies from the Cockpit presentation (on the web)

The Servant

·       Honesty

·       Competent

·       Forward looking

·       Inspiring

·       Intelligent

·       Fair minded

·       Diverse

·       Courage

·       Straight forward

·       Imaginative

Strategic:

·       Challenge

·       Courage

·       Choice

·       Change

·       Control

·       Commitment

Ldr:

·       Transform vision into action

·       Stop majoring in minors

·       Vision w/o action=dream

·       Explain - clarify expectations

·       May they never know my name

·       What success really looks like----NOT a straight path.

3's

·       Normal

·       Humble-some info

·       Crisis-decide now, based on my assessment

Authority

·       Responsibility

·       Accountability

If you don't have to decide now

·       Delegate

·       Never fall in love with your decision

Initiative

Patience-2nd mouse gets the cheese

Respect -

·       Honor those above you

Serve

Persistence

Courage

Mental & moral strength

Faith

·       Jonah & the whale

You cannot change what you tolerate

Want it more than you fear it (failure to try)

Attitude of gratitude

Create a challenge---possibility thinking---great expectations Goals are dreams w deadlines Reinvent yourself Pity city- dont move in Don't take everything personally