gcLi Leadership - Summary of Gus Lee

First, courage

Aristolte - Courage alone allows for other virtues

Warrin Bennis is the model of Modern Leadership

Anima (values and character) vs. Persona (mask and personality)
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3 Challenges -
Addressing student conduct
1. Solomon - discern right conduct by student
2. Socrates - ask an engaging open question
3. Marshall (Lee's teacher) - hold fast and don't give up

Giving Feedback to Students
1. Toyota: Ask for feedback first (after action review)
2. Pinoy (Lee's coach): Get routine feedback
TODO: consider daily feedback form for classroom
3. Parent: Catch student acting rightly 4:1
TODO: consider how to "actively catch students" checklist of 4:1 - principle applies to student reports for families as well
W.O.W. - Warm, Open, Welcoming

Helping Students to lead
1. Gandhi: Model the behaviors you want
2. USMA: Reinforce the values/behaviors you need
3. Matthew: Forgive all with Unconditional Positive Respect
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Courage faces fear & thereby masters it, comfort suppresses fear and is therefore mastered by it.

Common Fears in Leadership: of conflict, of difficult people, of failure, of negative job impact, of looking bad and inept, of losing job, of fear, of anger

"Fear is false evidence appearing real"

"These are not worthy of you"
Denial - Avoidance
Silence - Paralysis
Excuses - Justification
Blame - Gossip
Anger - Bullying/Control
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Crossing the River of Fear

From being a good person (keeps their image up) who is...
- Honest (limitation: "I hate you" - honest, not principled)
- Honorable (limitation: don't lie, cheat, steal...murder is ok though)
- Ethical
- Lawful
****Good is an invitation to moral failure: need to keep image up****

To a courageous person...
Integrity
- Discern right from what is not right (not thinking critically...produces pragmatism)
- Act in the right regardless of self (not based on feeling)
- Teach others from that act (moral imperative)
- Correct self (moral imperative)
- Respectfully address wrongs
Courage
Character

We do not provide practice for our students in moral courage, so when it happens they fail. (Sporting events with no practice)

We used to call people cowards, now we say conflict adverse.
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Where do you operate when stressed...
Tier 3 People's Dominant Emotions: Courage, Unconditional Positive Respect
Tier 2 People's Dominant Emotions: Results, Hi-Performance
Tier 1 People's Dominant Emotions: Avoidance, Fear
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Business school definition of leader...
Motivating or influencing others toward organizational goals

fails at Enron and Hilter...the definition isn't enough...it needs more...

Working definition of leadership...
Courageously modeling & only thereby inspiring others to their best selves.

TODO: consider adopting this language instead of "good leader/bad leader" for application for peer mentoring & cru freshmen leaders
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Issue of Knowing Right, Understanding How do to implement. There is a right or wrong - we may not have the capacity to always discern right.

World Hunger example - could solve it, but at war for 200 years

We have the capacity to know right and wrong
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80% of executives think they are in the top 20%
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65% of learning comes from failure, 35% from success
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Good questions: How are you doing? What is going on with you? Is there anything I can help you with now?
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We have to practice habits of character.
TODO: consider where and how I give my students opportunities to practice this before I assess them?
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Gus's Action Points for Talk

Teach within 24 hours (90% retention vs. 10%)
Deploy Personal Changes (within a week)
Respond to Challenge with Accountability
After Action Review