Chapter 10

DON’T SEND YOUR DUCKS TO EAGLE SCHOOL

Why Some Don’t Soar

 “ Some Will Change, some won’t “.
Three Reasons Not To Send Your Ducks To Eagle School
1. If you send ducks to eagle school, you will frustrate the ducks.
2. If you send ducks to eagle school, you will frustrate the eagles.
3. If you send ducks to eagle school, you will frustrate yourself.
Know What You’re Looking For
 It’s very important for a leader to get the right people in the organization
and put them in the right positions.

Chapter 11
KEEP YOUR MIND ON THE MAIN THING

 A learning how to keep my mind on the main thing has changed my life
the most.
Finding The Main Thing
1. What gives me the greatest return?
2. What is most rewarding?
3. What is required of me?
Five Decisions
1. I determined not to know everything.
2. I determined not to know everything first.
3. I determined to let someone represent me.
4. I determined to stay with my strengths and not work on my weaknesses.
5. I determined to take charge of what took my time and attention.
Application Exercises
1. What kinds of things occupy your time?
 Something I was told in school that I ought to do.
 Something other people want me to do.
 Something I see other successful people doing.
 Something I know I should be doing.
2. Are you focused on strengths?
 Am I doing them more or less?
 Am I developing them or less?
 Am I bringing others around me who complement these strengths?
 Am I enlisting others who compensate for my weaknesses?
3. Are you stuck in the middle?
 Chapter 12
YOUR BIGGEST MISTAKE IS NOT ASKING WHAT MISTAKE YOU’RE MAKING

Ignorance Isn’t Bliss

 When you’re young and idealistic, you think you can lead better than
many of the people who have led others before you.
Recipe for Successful Failure
 “ To get maximum attention, make a big mistake. To cause maximum
damage, fail to admit it!

If you want to learn to fail successfully and handle the mistakes you do make
with maximum profit, then you need to do the following five things:

1. Admit your own mistakes and weaknesses.

2. Accept mistakes as the price of progress.
3. Insist on learning from your mistakes.
4. Ask yourself and others, “what are we missing?”
5. Give the people around you permission to push back.

Application Exercises
1. What is your attitude toward mistakes?
2. Are you owning up to your mistakes?
3. Are you getting the best ideas from your subordinates?