Study Guide Flashcards

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Explain briefly the law of the lid

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How well you lead determines how well you succeed.
Leadership is the lid to your potential

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The Higher you want to climb, the more you need _____

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Leadership

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What 2 things did don Stephenson say his company did when they took over an organization

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Trained staff to improve service to customers

They fired the leader

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4
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What is the true measure of leadership

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Influence

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5
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What is the only thing a title can buy

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Time

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Name the five myths about leadership

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Management myth
Entrepreneur myth
Knowledge myth
Pioneer myth
Position myth

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Explain the management myth

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Managers can maintain direction, but leaders can change it

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According to the knowledge myth, what doesn’t necessarily equate to leadership

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Knowledge and intelligence

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What did Stanley huffy express about positions

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It’s not the position that makes the leader, it’s the leader that makes rhetoric position

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10
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How is leadership developed? How is it not developed?

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Daily, not in a day

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What is Benjamin disraelis secret of success in life?

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For a man to be ready for his time when it comes

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12
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Where does someone really become a champion?

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Daily routine

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13
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Anyone can steal the ship, but it takes a leader to______

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Chart the course

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14
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Explain how a leader sees

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They see the big picture

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15
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What do top-notch navigators do to learn?

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Gather information from many sources

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16
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What is the secret to the law of navigation?

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Preparation

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17
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Contrary to conventional thinking the bottom line and leadership isn’t how far we advance ________ but how far we advance______

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Ourselves, others

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According to the author, the best place for a leader isn’t always the top position. What is the best place for a leader to be?

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Where you Can serve other best.

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What are John Maxwell’s four guidelines to add value to others?

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Truly value others
Make ourselves more valuable to others
And relate to what others values
Do the thing that God values

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20
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Identify the relationship between character, trust, leadership

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Character and good values make trust possible, trust makes leadership possible

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What a man is _____ him. It can never be _____

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Survives, buried

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22
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What does the law of respect teach

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Improvement is impossible without a change in leadership

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23
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What law is the most difficult to understand

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The law of intuition

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What are the two things that intuition comes from

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Learned skills and natural ability

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What is a major difference between leaders and everyone else
The way the see resources
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Improvement is impossible without what
A change in leadership
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What is the law of magnetism
Who you are is who you attract
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Whatever character you possess you will likely find ______
In the people who follow you
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What is it time to do if you think the people who attract could be better
Examine your character
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Effective leaders know that you first have to touch people’s ______ before you ask them for a ______
Heart, hand
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Which president of the United States was know as the great communicator
Ronald Reagan
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What is one important key you must recognize when connecting with others
Relate to the people as individuals
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By what is every leaders potential determined?
The law of the inner circle
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The closest to you determine _______
Your level of success
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According to Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who were the only two kinds of people
The people who lift, the people who lean
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What are three reasons some leaders violate the law of empowerment
Desire for job security Resistance to change Lack of self-worth
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Mark Twain once remarked that great things can happen when___________
You don’t care who gets the credit
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Great leaders always seem to embody to singly desperate qualities. What are they?
Highly visionary, highly practical
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The leaders effective___________ the vision makes the picture come alive
Modeling
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What are the four ways a leader can model themselves to their followers?
The people you lead are always watching what you do It is easier to teach what’s right then to do what’s right Change ourselves before improving others Most valuable gift is being a good example
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People don’t follow worthy causes until they first follow
Worthy leaders
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With whom do people want to go along?
People they get along with
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You do not get credit for being________ your success is measured by your ability to_______
Right, take the people where they need to go
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What is the one thing that victorious leaders have in common?
They share a unwillingness to accept defeat
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What three components make victory possible
Unity of vision Diversity of skills A leader dedicated to victory and raising players to their potential
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Leadership practice the law of victory believe that anything less than success is
Unacceptable
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When leaders have moment minimal their side people think they are ________
Geniuses
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Momentum changes peoples_________ of leaders
Perspective
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Explain the Peretto principal
If you focus your attention on the activities that rank in the top 20% of importance, you will have a 80% return on effort
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What is the most remarkable aspect about John wooden and his ability to focus on priorities
He never scouted opposing teams. He focused on his players, reaching their potential.
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Effective leaders sacrifice much that is good in order to dedicate themselves to_______
What is best?
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What does Gerald Brooks say you lose when you become a leader?
The right to think about yourself
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Why do sports teams so infrequently repeat as champions?
Assume they can duplicate results without making changes
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In the love of timing, what are the only four outcomes that results when a leader makes a move
Wrong action at wrong time lead to disaster The right action at the wrong time brings resistance The wrong action at the right time is a mistake The right action at the right time results in success
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What famous leader once said that everyone has a moment of greatness for where they were born
Winston Churchill
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Explain the math behind explosive growth
To add growth lead followers to multiply lead leaders
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Give three differences between leaders and develop followers and leaders who develop leaders
Leaders who attract followers need to be needed, leaders who lead leaders want to be succeeded Leaders who attract followers develop the bottom 20%, leaders who lead leaders develop the top 20% Leaders attract followers, weaknesses, leaders who lead leaders focus on strength
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What is Bo’s favorite doughnut?
Hot glazed from Krispy Kreme