Be conscientioous Manage what there is and work to create what could and should be. Find and do the work that must be done. Accept change Industrial Age (Factory/Manual worker) Agricultural Age (Farmer) Information Age (Knowledge worker) Conceptual Age (Creating and empathizing worker) • • Presidential Biographer • • Historian Political Scientist Authority on Leadership “The crisis of leadership today is the mediocrity or irresponsibility of so many of the men and women in power, but leadership rarely rises to the full need of it.” Transformational leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership HAVE A WELL DEVELOPED PLAN FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION KNOW YOUR STRENGTHS AND INVEST IN STRENGTHS OF OTHERS GET PEOPLE WITH THE RIGHT STRENGTHS ON YOUR TEAM UNDERSTAND AND MEET THE FOUR BASIC NEEDS OF THOSE WHO LOOK TO YOU FOR LEADERSHIP TRUST HONESTY, INTEGRITY AND RESPECT COMPASSION CARING, FRIENDSHIP, HAPPINESS AND LOVE STABILITY SECURITY, STRENGTH, SUPPORT AND PEACE HOPE DIRECTION, FAITH AND GUIDANCE *Gallup randomly sampled 10,000 followers between 2005 and 2008. In some cases, more than 1,000 people listed the exact same word (out of 170,000 words in the English Language). A Whole New Mind …Daniel H. Pink Drive …Daniel H. Pink Now Discover your Strengths …Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton Strengths Based Leadership …Tom Rath & Barry Conchie Good to Great …Jim Collins Good to Great and the Social Sectors …Jim Collins