“Follow the Leader” by various speakers

Prenote: This was an audiobook of this title with speakers poorly identified. I have noted speaks as best I could determine.

• John Maxwell
  • Level 1, positional
    • People follow you because they have to
    • People do the least amount of energy and effort
    • The office is packed up at 430
  • Level 2, permission
    • They follow you because they like you
    • It is hard to influence someone you antagonize
    • Listen well
    • Observe what their people do
    • Learn
  • Level 3, results
    • Start producing
    • People do what they see
    • Be a tour guide, not a travel agent
    • “We attract who we are, not who we want”
    • Momentum solves problems
  • Level 4, people
    • Recruitment
    • Position
    • Equip
      • I do it
      • I do it with you
      • You do it with me
      • You do it
      • You do it with someone else
    • Successful leader find what other people are good at
  • Level 5, respect
    • Follow because they respect you
    • You will be at different levels with different people
    • Different levels will hear the same thing differently
• Simon Sinek
  • Golden Circle
    • How we work
    • Why we do it
    • What we do
  • People care why you do it, not what you do
  • Trust and feelings come from limbic system, detached from language
• Laura Sicola
  • Appearance
  • Communicating skills
  • Gravitas
  • Credibility issues when claims and evidence are disconnected
  • Don’t wing the delivery
  • “Vocal executive presence”
  • We focus on high pitch tones, and then fill in the lower pitches
  • Go up on the first name, pause, then go down on the last night

• Authorities are not leaders
• People who feel safe are willing to sacrifice
• Roselinde Torres
  • Here are trends that affect me; Here are trends that affect those around me
• Speech writing
  • Mirror hyperventilating
  • Group in three (tricolon)
  • If the sentence is balanced, then we assume the underlying logic is balanced
  • Metaphors
  • People are more likely to believe something if it rhymes
    • “‘I’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’” is only correct for 40 words but is wrong for 900 words
• Malcom Gladwell
  • Endorphins mask pain
  • Dopamine is a reward for getting stuff done
  • Serotonin is for leadership; this comes with public recognition
  • Oxytocin is feeling safe
    • Comes through touch
    • Doing nice things for others
  • Alphas need to sacrifice themselves for others
  • Email is good for sending information
  • Emotional questions should have personal communications
  • Cortisol is stress and anxiety
    • Shuts down other systems like nail growth and immune systems