Lead Like a Heretic: How to Challenge the Status Quo - and Thrive (Dr. Phil Johnson, 2017)

Written and intended to have Christianity content, subtle enough for all (with or without religion to read). Very good example of why the world movers have such ability to make people follow. Rated 8.5 / 10

• Heretics challenges status quo
• Leaders create a climate of possibility - set the condition of growth and thickening of the impossibility is encouraged and rewarded
• Warren Buffet: “The first is personal integrity, the second is intelligence, and the third is high energy level. But if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.”
• Heretics incite movement
• Chinese proverb: “Tell me, I’ll forget. Show me, I’ll remember. Involve me, I’ll understand.”
• 12 Questions for prediction of employees and workgroup performance:
1. Do you know what is expected of you at work?
2. Do you have the materials and equipment to do your work right?
3. At work, do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?
4. In the last seven days, have you received recognition or praise for doing good work?
5. Does your supervisor or someone at work seem to care about you as a person?
6. Is there someone at work who encourages your development?
7. At work, do your opinions seem to count?
8. Does the mission/purpose of your company make you feel your job is important?
9. Are you associates (fellow employees) committed to doing quality work?
10. Do you have a best friend at work?
11. In the last six months, has someone at work talked to you about your progress?
12. In the last year, have you had opportunities to learn and grow?
• CAVE dwellers - citizens against virtually everything
• Heretics exploits potential
• CEOs who epitomise:
1. They do what they love and love what they do
2. They practice presence and patience
3. They balance effort and rest for peak performance
4. They foster loving relationships with family and friends
5. They consider leading a privilege and a responsibility
6. They treat their associates with respect and compassion
7. They possess a sense of humor and laugh naturally
• Feedforward: feedback with proactive approach and application of the learning
• Heretics champion changes
• Leading in uncertain times:
• People or organisations need to be more anchored than ever in purpose
• Business is no longer just about profit but about enhancing every life and community that we touch
• We need to have a holistic view of the world, one that combines economic, political, social, consumer, and technology trends
• Leaders need to live in both global and local worlds
• Caring is the new selling in the age of transparency
• Leaders need to develop structures along the principle of “centralised decentralisation”
• Leaders must acknowledge that the most important leadership characteristic to thrive in this ever-change world is resilience
• Heretics anticipate change