A Novel Way of Leading, TFT14 Winter Presentation 18 Feb

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What we’ll explore• Jazzy titles & leadership promises• Classifying your genre• Using character & narrative• The Snowflake Method

A Novel Way of Leading Simone Jo Moore


The Books

Jazzy Titles or just common words?


The First 10 … which engage you?• Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

• Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

• The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential

• Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box

• The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations

• Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

• Building Highly Effective Teams: How to Transform Virtual Teams to Cohesive Professional Networks - a practical...

• Leadership by the Book: Tools to Transform Your Workplace


Go from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader.

• HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership…

• If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles

• We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on leadership and selected the most important ones to help you maximise your own and your organisation's performance.


The Promise…• these books will inspire you to:

• Motivate others to excel

• Build your team's self-confidence in others

• Provoke positive change

• Set direction

• Encourage smart risk-taking

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• Manage with tough empathy

• Credit others for your success

• Increase self-awareness

• Draw strength from adversity

• and more…


“It is what you read when you don’t have to,

that determines what you will be when you

can’t help it.”

Oscar Wilde

Genre What’s your kind of story?



If you could be any character what would that be?


As that character…• What kind of relationship do you need to have with others?

• Do you get to change anyone?

• What kind of story do you tell?

• How will your story develop and

• What kind of ending will eventuate when you turn that last page? !

If you are going to lead relevant, successful teams, then you need to know which parts of your story are

doing well, and which are not.


“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

Oscar Wilde


Character Charts• How many characters do you have?

• What kind of characters do you have around you?

• Are they minor or major roles?

• Some key areas: • Speech and language/communication • Everyday behaviour/habits • The Past • Relationships with others • Mental attitude/personal beliefs • Likes/favourites


Building the Narrative


Narrative Influencers

The Snowflake Method Randy Ingermanson


The Snowflake Method1. Write a one-sentence summary of your team.

2. Expand the sentence to a paragraph describing the story narrative, any major events and the ending.

3. Now consider the main character and write a one page summary for each, considering the following points: • A one-sentence summary of the character’s storyline. • The character’s motivation (what does he/she want abstractly?). • The character’s goal (what does he/she want concretely?). • The character’s conflict (what prevents him/her from reaching this goal?). • The character’s epiphany (what will he/she learn, how will he/she change?). • A one-paragraph summary of the character’s storyline.


The Snowflake Method4. Go back to the summary you wrote in step 2 and

expand each sentence into a paragraph: • Take several hours and expand each sentence of your summary paragraph into

a full paragraph. All but the last paragraph should end in a disaster. The final paragraph should tell how the book ends.

5. Write a one page description for each major character, which tells the story from their point of view.

6. Expand your one page plot synopsis into a four page plot synopsis.


The Snowflake Method

7. Expand your character descriptions from Step 3 into full ‘character charts’.

8. Using the expanded synopsis, make a list of every scene you will need to write to complete the novel.

9. Using the scene list, write a multi-paragraph narrative description of each scene.

10. Write your first draft.


Summary• Being able to use a Novel approach to Leadership gives you

the ability to:

• hope until there is none

• know it is not ended until you choose to end it

• continue the story

• always write the sequel and where necessary,

• write the prequel to explain the misunderstood or unknown.


“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in

reading it at all.” Oscar Wilde


Thank you for listening

• Connect… • About Me

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• Source Material… • http://itrevolution.com/books/phoenix-project-devops-book/

• Ideas comes and go; stories stay - Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan

• The Stories We Construct, Stephen P Anderson

• http://ingermanson.com

• http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/snowflake-method/

• http://www.forbes.com/sites/glennllopis/2014/02/03/the-most-undervalued-leadership-traits-of-women/

• http://www.amazon.com/Leadership-featured-Effective-Executive-Drucker/dp/1422157970

• http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140105233532-23074630-on-love-leadership-what-real-leaders-do?trk=eml-ced-b-art-Ch-6&ut=2UvwI_TIMzfS41

• http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3565.Oscar_Wilde?page=1