Quotes by Kevin Allen - Page 1

What can be seeds of destruction can also be seeds of greatness.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Destruction
Greatness
Seeds
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As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form.
Kevin Allen / Actor
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You can't mobilize people and connect with them authentically when they can't see the true you.
Kevin Allen / Actor
People
True You
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Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Errors
Risk
Survival
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As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Command And Control
Sensitive
World
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The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Decision
Organization
Team
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My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree more.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Boys
Grandfather
Real
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First, define your credo- the belief system of the organization. Secondly, define your real ambition, or where do you want to go as a collective community.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Ambition
Organization
Real
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Once you reach people on an authentic emotional level, they will reward your faith in them with their belief in you, and they will mobilize to get the job done.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Jobs
Emotional
People
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I believe that the establishment of a real ambition, a powerfully galvanizing and exciting vision of what a group is setting out to create, is vitally important.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Ambition
Believe
Real
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The secret is to be prepared, to draw on the strengths of the people around you, and most importantly, to instill confidence that your team will step up and find a solution.
Kevin Allen / Actor
People
Secret
Team
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One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Kids
Wise
Mistake
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As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Accountability
Self
Thinking
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Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Quality
Men
Forgiving
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True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with their hearts, not heads.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Firsts
Heart
Leader
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What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the only way to inspire real change.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Emotional
Inspire
Real
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Once you demonstrate to your team that you put them on the same plane of priority as yourself, you will create an environment, and a culture that will make your entire organization flourish.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Organization
Priorities
Team
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Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Differences
Emotional
Team
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At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Believe
Intelligent
Real
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When your people have determined that you understand their lies in their hearts and are dedicated to their functional wellbeing, they will compensate for your weaknesses and shore up your strengths.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Heart
Lying
People
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Buoyancy is a phenomenon whereby, as a leader, you float because the people you inspired believe that you should, because you've truly connected with the collective desires and values of the people you lead.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Believe
Leader
People
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Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on a journey, and on any hero's journey there will be a setback.
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Journey
Hero
People
Technique
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All buoyant leaders are driven by a real ambition- that is, what is being created that didn't exist before- and one criteria for that real ambition, is that on initial inspection, it seems fundamentally impossible.
Kevin Allen / Actor
Ambition
Leader
Real
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It is so easy to "calibrate" -that is, given the pressures on a smaller company to redefine in less ambitious terms- that which you are in business to accomplish. The moment this happens the downward spiral begins.
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Ambitious
Moments
Pressure
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Change management is kind of a weird concept to me. We can' t control events any more than we can control the weather. But we control how we deal with it and we can control the opportunities that these moments of change create.
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Opportunity
Events
Weather
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Inevitably in my career of 35 years, I was in one turnaround circumstance after another, and I was personally put in positions of significant responsibility but without complete authority over everyone that needed to be mobilized.
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Careers
Responsibility
Years
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Mr. Churchill connected truly to what was in the hearts of the British people, which is what a buoyant leader does. One of his most famous quotes is about making mistakes and learning from them. He wasn't shy to admit when things went wrong.
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Heart
Mistake
People
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Leadership is not about sitting and presiding, it's about a going somewhere. To be buoyant, you must not only ignite passion around a common quest, you must also mobilize your team to take a journey with you toward a common destination, or what I call a "real ambition."
Kevin Allen / Actor
Journey
Passion
Real
Team
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For so long, companies were run using a command-and-control, 'top down' hierarchical method that involved dictating down the command chain and maintaining order. What I've witnessed in our time is evolving democratization, a shift to a demand economy accelerated by technological advancements like social media.
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Running
Order
Top Down
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