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®Quotes are attributed to author on each slide; photographs are by Lee Jenkins. All photographswere taken in Arizona.

Permission to Forget® Cost:

Kid: 4 yearsTeacher: 10 yearsLee Jenkins

There is no shortage of qualified people unless we choose to create one.W. Edwards Deming

W. Edwards DemingLeadershelp

remove system barriers.

Great Leaders offer

Help Hope

Poor Leaders

offerHoops

HypeJohn Maxwell, p. 1131,

the Maxwell Leadership Bible

“If the barriers remain long enough,the people give up, or they move to another organization where they can maximize their potential.” John Maxwell, The Leadership Bible, p1362

If experience were the best teacher, we’d have no problems.W. Edwards Deming

It is not the responsibility of educators to motivate students but to determine what is causing them to lose their motivation and

stop such practices.Lee Jenkins

If at age fourteen or forty-three, we’re passive and inert,

that’s not

because it’s our nature.

It’s because something

flipped our default setting.

Drive, p89

If at age fourteen or forty-three, we’re passive and inert, that’s not because it’s our nature. It’s because

something flipped our default setting.Daniel Pink, Drive, p89

Fair is not everyone using the same method;

fair is everyone meeting the same standards.

A major responsibility

of leaders is to

drive FEAR out of the

organization.W. EdwardsDeming

Influencing Others:

Worst to BestThe Maxwell Leadership

Bible, p. 33

ForceIntimidation

Manipulation (includes invidious compliments)

Exchange (incentives)

PersuasionEnergizing Others

Honor/Serve

People are becoming too weary to do their

best thinking.

Jamie Rasmussen

Normal is: test and then empower the successful.

Better is: empower all and discover talent.

p. 200 John Maxwell, The 21 Most Powerful Minutes In a Leader’s Day

“In large part, the critical public believes that public education cannot be relied upon to replace the century-old practice of bell-curve sorting with universal high standards.”Education Week, p. 36,30, October 22, 2008, “What Can We Learn From L.A.?”

Charles Taylor Kerchner

Data requires

trends, not one or

two data points.

Lee Jenkins

Improvement:the focus of learning.John Maxwell, Sometimes WeWin; Sometimes We Learn, p18

Life is more difficult than it would be, if they werededicating themselves to continual improvement. John Maxwell,

Sometimes WeWin; Sometimes We Learn, p45

I only want to be

superior to my former

self.John Maxwell, Sometimes WeWin; Sometimes We Learn, p85

Everyone who has gotten to where he is, started where

he was.

John Maxwell, Sometimes WeWin; Sometimes We Learn, p82

The highest reward for our toil is not what we get for it, but what we become by it.

John Maxwell, Sometimes WeWin; Sometimes We Learn, p78

The true measure of a leader is getting people

to work hard together.

John Maxwell, Talent is Never Enough

It is easier to go from failure to success than

excuses to success.

John Maxwell, Sometimes WeWin; Sometimes We Learn, p41

85% of success in life

is due to attitude.

John Maxwell, Sometimes WeWin; Sometimes We Learn, p111

Good leaders motivate others by

their listening skills.

John Maxwell, The Leadership Bible, p 1544

We want successes, but instead we should

train for losses.John Maxwell, Sometimes we Win; Sometimes we Learnp.11

People need a point for their head

and...

a picture for their heart!John Maxwell

p. 1373, The Leadership Bible

Encouragement is Encouragement is oxygen for the soul. John Maxwell, The Maxwell Leadership Bible, p 1154

Losseswhen piled

up can lead to

insecurity.John Maxwell, Sometimes WeWin; Sometimes We Learn, p12