Craig’s Friday Countdown KSG Kernels

There’s this school out east that has this program I scammed my way into 15 years ago this week (more here).  I listened and / or took notes while there.  25 actual transcriptions from my notes below that may or may not be helpful [with 2016 notes that also may or may not be helpful].

25.  Try tha chowda

24.  Tie everything to strategy

23.  “Leadership” derives from Old English “leith” --- go forth and die

22.  Beware the impulse to correct

21.  Never data, without a story

20.  Power, in negotiations, is the ability to shape perceptions of the bargaining space

19.  Demonstrate genuine care --- not thinking about care, demonstrating care

18.  Logos, Ethos, Agora, Pathos, Syzygy <<< Scrabble

17.  Everyone resides at the intersection of many categories [roundabouts rule]

16.  Give power away --- it multiples --- and isn’t yours to begin with

15.  A bad story needs your collusion to remain in the news cycle long enough for anyone to remember it [pre social media]

14.  Get on the balcony [heard that about 100 times]

13.  Get a confidante

12.  Used to be you could lead a life of public service and still have a good reputation at the end [David Gergen, wistfully]

11.  Privilege is an invisible package of unearned assets --- though only invisible to you

10.  The big chair is symbol --- when you sit in it, you are symbol --- symbol is all you really are and do --- PROJECT the symbol into the future

9.  What is the adaptive challenge facing your community?

8.  Beatles ? [not making this up, the Baby Boomer horde broke out in song at the end, singing “In My Life” by the Beatles] [is that something Baby Boomers do, just willy nilly?]

7.  K squared

6.  Look at others through eyes that aren’t mirrors of your own biases

5.  I’m an idiot [for the record, it was underlined]

4.  If the horse is dead, dismount

3.  Leadership is disappointing people at a pace they can bear

2.  Nobody really wants you to be different when you get back --- that’s too unsettling for them --- BE different anyway

1.  Secret to life is … [sorry, my handwriting was even worse back then]