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Key Breakthrough Terms

What Is Breakthrough Leadership?

A systematic process for achieving outstanding and sustained business performance by building leaders at all levels.

A way of working that achieves extraordinary results.

Paradigm

1. A mindset that determines how you perceive something.

2. The mental window or model through which you see … know … and create reality.

Leadership

Taking people to places they would not go by themselves.

Vision

1. A picture of what it looks like when your purpose is realized.

2. What you see when you start with the end in mind.

Purpose

1. What you aim to do.

2. The ideal you keep in mind to direct everything you do.

Values

1. The "rules of the game" - how we treat each other.

2. Principles that guide all of our actions and decisions.

The Box

A paradigm or interpretation of reality that limits thinking and constrains growth.

Power Question

Asking a question, the nature of which leads to a breakthrough in thinking.

Language Tools

Phrases that break open the box and reveal new possibilities.

  • CVS » BVS
  • But » And
  • Up 'til Now
  • People don't fail, events fail

Strategic Issue

A current condition that constrains your ability to realize the vision.

Strategic Initiative

A business proposition that allows you to resolve or transcend a strategic issue.

Family Meeting Guidelines

  • Value respect, trust and candor
  • Speak for yourself-use "I" language
  • Support confidentiality
  • Acknowledge others' communication - "Thank you, I got it."
  • Say "OUCH!" when someone teases you
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