Leading Thoughts for July 18, 2024

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with:

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Tom Asacker on leading with people:

“Those skilled at motivating people to cross a new bridge to change their beliefs and behavior, are not trying to cajole or manipulate them against their will. Rather, they seek to guide them to a new destination, a transformed way of feeling, thinking and acting that's aligned with their personal desires and values.

Effective leaders know that the first essential step to changing people's behavior is to understand their perspectives and embrace their desires and beliefs. Everything else flows naturally from there.”

Source: The Business of Belief

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August Turak on the three types of transformation:

“All human motivation arises from a longing for transformation. There are three different types of transformation. When thirsty man drinks, he transforms his condition. When a poor man the lottery, he transforms his circumstance. And when Mr. Scrooge wakes up on Christmas morning an utterly new man, he has experienced a transformation of being.

All three types of transformation are necessary. It is only when we try to replace one type of transformation with another that we get into trouble. When we turn sustenance into ‘comfort food,’ are actually trying to fill that hole in our soul by overfilling our stomach. Comfort food is an attempt to substitute a transformation of condition for a transformation of being, often with disastrous results. Food, drugs, alcohol, and sex produce transformations of condition, and when used properly, all have their place. It is only when we mistakenly use them as a substitute for a transformation of being that things go terribly awry.”

Source: Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO's Quest for Meaning and Authenticity

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