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MARCH
2003
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Marc
Fey,
M.A.,M.Min.
Life & Business Coach
Life
Ascent Coaching & Consulting
Issue
#12, March
2003
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IN
THIS ISSUE
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1.
Level 5 Leadership
2.
Assessments Package
3.
Quote
of the Month
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TAKE
A BIG STEP FORWARD
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Learn
What Makes You Tick!
35-pg Assessments Package--
Special Price: $149,
including a 45-minute teleconference analysis
Call
719-330-3123
for details, or
visit us at www.LifeAscentCoaching.com
Quote
of the Month
Margaret
Young,
(quoted in The Artist's Way)
Often people attempt to live their lives
backwards: they try to have more things, or more
money, in order to do more of what they want to
they will be happier. The way it actually works is
the reverse. You must first be who you really are,
then do what you need to do, in order to have what
you want.
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FEATURE
ARTICLE
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LEVEL
5 LEADERSHIP...AND WHY IT'S NO SURPRISE
by
Marc Fey
Have
you been prey to some of the faulty leadership advice that
says leaders are born, not made. Or that
highly successful leaders distinguish themselves far above
their peers in traits like charisma, vision, or
intelligence? If so, then Jim Collins has good news
for you.
Jim
Collins, author of Built
to Last (HarperCollins, 1994), and now his
latest book, Good
to Great (HarperCollins, 2001), discovered
that leaders who took their companies from good to great
were not larger-than-life figures that typify today's
celebrity CEO culture, but instead were characterized by a
unique blend of humility and resolve. Collins calls
this Level 5 Leadership.
As
Collins explains in his book, "Level 5 leaders channel
their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger
goal of building a great company." As a former
professor at Stanford Business School and founder of his own
management research laboratory, Collins' insights can give
the individual leader, the for-profit corporation, and the
not-for-profit corporation equal benefit. It is a
great read for a person with any level of responsibility in
an organization or group.
In
a recent interview, Collins was asked what aspect of level 5
leadership was harder for him, humility or resolve (or
"the will"). Collins explained:
"The
question regarding Level 5 is, which side is harder for
you? The humility or the will? The magic of Level 5 is the
combination of the two, not just one or the other. One
side is usually harder for people than the other.
Sometimes it takes brutally hard decisions to be Level 5.
What if Abraham Lincoln could not stomach the consequences
of his being Level 5, which was to endure five years of
the bloodiest conflict so that our nation could live?
Would you do whatever is needed for the cause?
If
your struggle is on humility side, have people track your
questions-to-statements ratio. You should see that ratio
go up over time. Another thing is to really practice the
discipline of the window and the mirror. Give credit to
people outside the window and look at the mirror when
things go wrong. As for the will: when you come to a fork
in the road, one side is about being comfortable, and the
other is about the cause, or the mission, or the work. You
know that the best thing for the cause is to go one way,
but the more comfortable decision for you is to step
right. The key is to try to keep increasing your tendency
to step left.
In
Good
to Great, Collins is reminding you and me
that the most important aspects of our leadership are those
which are internal--traits like integrity, courage,
honesty--and which connect us to the people we lead, few
or many.
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NEWS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Learn
What Makes You Tick! 35-pg Assessments
Package,
Special Price: $149, which includes a 45-minute teleconference analysis.
Call
719-330-3123 for details, or
visit us at www.LifeAscentCoaching.com
Marc
Fey has a handful of available dates to speak to your
organization on the topic of leadership, organizational
change, and teambuilding. He is available for staff
training, leadership development, 360-degree coaching, and a
variety of other services.
Call
today for a special assessment package on any of the
following targets:
Leadership, Employee-Manager, Executive, Sales, or Personal
Growth. 719-330-3123.
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