The last word on power. Tracy Goss

  1. INTRO: The power to make the impossible happen, regardless of past experiences and current circumstances=Executive Re-invention is a series of radical transformations, PUT at RISK the success you have become=>entirely different relationship with reality, with past, future and present

2. Uncovering your winning strategy: learning to recognise the existing sources of power underlying your own individual success in the past. continuing to operate with this kind of power will prevent you from creating any desired future outside the realm of what you currently consider possible

3. Experiencing the limits of the The Universal Human Paradigm at work in your actions

4. Dying before going into battle: Learning to put everything at risk

5. Inventing a new master paradigm that provides you with a new source of power Creating the re-invention paradigm: making a series of declarations that constitute a new master paradigm that allows you to engage the forces around you in an unprecedented manner)

6. Inventing an impossible future/ game to play create the future that reinvents you as Leader,make bold promises in the game you have chosen to play, no regrets at end of your life

7. Breaking the addiction to interpretation: Building the bridge between "possibility" and "reality": operating in reality of No Should, every problem and dilemma is seen from the standpoint of an invented future, rather than though the filters of history

8. Operating beyond the limits of your Winning Strategy: : learning to operate beyond compensating for what's not possible. Like building a new set of muscles, develops the capacity to have your everyday acting express the 'impossible future" you have invented. What athletes and performers know about being extra-ordinary (that executives don't)

-The voice whispering in everybody's ear: stop interpretations and assumptions

The way things should and shoudn't

The Perpetual "missing dot": exercise

Toward the Freedom Trail: freedom to take risks because you know the outcome is defined

Free yourself from illusion that you can control life, so that it turns out the way it should

Learning to hit bottom without giving up

Telling yourself the truth

Discover the source of your success, which is also the Source of your limitation:
-defines your reality, your way of being, your way of thinking.
-it focuses your attention, shapes your actions, determines what is possible or not for you as a leader

Success is never free

The compensating power principle

Your individual winning strategy: Definition: is not what you do, it is the source of what you do, a manifestation of who you are being => your behaviour is (your doing) is governed by your winning strategy:

A taste of Power

What is executive Re-invention:is a series of radical transformations(7), you reinvent yourself by defining your reality of the past, present and future and your relationship to taking risks, winning, action, and being extraordinary; it is conerned about different ways of being, and how that determines your reality of what's possible and not possible.

Leaders must re-invent themselves first: Be personally free from constraints and limitations of your own past (including success), you will not have the power to deal effectively with what is at the source of resistance to change (either your own or that of others)
-Need to change the way of being (identity of every key person)

CONTEXT IS DECISIVE: to alter the way of being you must engage with context: Creating context is a Cornerstone, you shift the way you are being by creating a new context from which to relate to reality

Language is the House of Being: make a declaration and actions follow, THE CONTEXT determines the limits of your action

EXECUTIVE Re-invention: you gain awareness of the fundamental links between your view of the world at any moment, and the ultimate scope of your achievements and failures

STAGES of

The ROOTS

Expressing - as a whole

Can the Hold of the winning strategy be broken?

Next stop: the Human condition

The universal Human Paradigm in Organisations

How you learned to compensate: to avoid disappointment

Make the impossible happen

Declare the future

Declaration of possibility

Creating the re-invention paradigm

Taking a Stand

Organisations

Declaration to Design

Creating a new game that redesigns you as a leader

Leaders are the Clearing in which the Future happens

Generate a clearing for you as leader

Creating an invented future

The Design of your game: principles

  1. Assume you will fail at this game
  1. Something within the game has to be more important than something else
  1. The game must be impossible, andyou must be passionate about engaging in it
  1. the bold promises you make, should have challenging time frames
  1. The game is large enough to hold all of your other accountabilities inside it

Implementing your impossible future

The addictive Cycle of Interpretation

The Bridge from Possibility to Reality is a conversation for Action

Request: Queries that generate commitment

Bold promises

3 ? after something happens

Action under the re-invention paradigm

Create a life long practice

The whole is greater than the Sum of Its parts

Leading an organisational Re-invention

The LAST word on Power

Definition

ability to take something that you believe could never come to pass, Declare it possible, and move this possibility into tangible reality;

your power stems from the absence of control

eg Steve Jobs , Sam Walton, Fred Smith

Purpose of Book:

  1. explain to leaders and make impossible happen via 7 separate transformations (STAGES) (hfd 2-8), each one involves new skills and new ways of thinking, need to practice and experiment
  1. See the value of this method: Understand, why am I here, what would I be committed to accomplish, if only it were possible=>so much I would be committed to re-invent myself or it will remain impossible
  1. See what holds you back from your destiny
  1. End the despair about resistance to change in organisations
  1. catalyse the emergence of extraordinary leadership

Transform your way of being, vs changing what you are doing: change (altering you doing), transformation is alternating your being, create what is not possible in your reality now

Being important and seen this way:being admired & respected

Being valued by others: convincing and inspiring people, being likeable, energetic,
Learnings:
Be patient,
listing to needs of team,
Trust team

avoid being ordinary, be somebody important, make your mark

Relating and communicating well

being convincing and motivating,

Seeking pleasure

What is the opportunity. Producing results,

eg: the times you speak and listen, the choices you make, what you ignore or pay attention, conclusions you draw, ...the actions you take =) what do I really care about?

We will try to find something entrepreneurial, FUN

My belief is that I'm convinced of own right,

others see me as critical, proactive and arrogant => you do not hear others

Be strong, Do not be vulnerable, no emotions , saying no shows you are week

What Am I Listening For?

Do not disappoint ( your parents)

“ so as to act by” : what represents a solution or action in any given situation, automatic created by your listening , bringing people together around a common purpose ,

What is the whole picture? hat did others not take into consideration and make them go in action to fast

What interests me?

What is beneath the surface, what is needed and wanted?

Persuading, confronting of my truth, my vision

Think about my negative thoughts of others

Driven by What is needed? Appreciation, approval of myself by others

Gaining respect: working hard

Being in control

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In order to

Not being criticed , being betrayed, left alone, pushed out, being seen as ordinary

To be respected, appreciated, looked up into

Behaviour, focus, communication, collaboration, my mage, driven,, working for own interests

The company was no longer the same ( no fun), not able to grow a team, not what was promised to me, no connection with MGr

If I stayed =) gsk bored, not seen litle children, never home ( wife and mother responsibilities) ,

Financial, marriage& mother failure, reputation, disrespect

Be in control

To be loved, being able to feel and live the life want, be excited and experience life, adventure, discover the world with new cultures, activities, not being controlled, being taking care off, listened to, feeling special