Kevin Allen Quotes

• 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

  Team, People, Secret

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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

  Real, Believe, Intelligent

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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

  Real, Emotional, Inspire

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• As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.

  Kevin Allen

  Command And Control, World, Sensitive

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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

  Heart, Leader, Firsts

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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.

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  Real, Ambition, Leader

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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.

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  Team, Emotional, Differences

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• As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form.

  Kevin Allen

  Form

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• Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error.

  Kevin Allen

  Errors, Risk, Survival

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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.

  Kevin Allen

  Ambitious, Pressure, Moments

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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.

  Kevin Allen

  Running, Order, Top Down

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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.

  Kevin Allen

  Opportunity, Weather, Events

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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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  Responsibility, Years, Careers

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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

  Wise, Mistake, Kids

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• You can't mobilize people and connect with them authentically when they can't see the true you.

  Kevin Allen

  People, True You

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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

  Thinking, Self, Accountability

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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.

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  Real, Ambition, Organization

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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

  Real, Believe, Ambition

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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

  Real, Boys, Grandfather

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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.

  Kevin Allen

  Hero, Journey, People

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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

  Men, Forgiving, Quality

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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.

  Kevin Allen

  Mistake, Heart, 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

  Believe, People, Leader

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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

  Lying, Heart, 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

  Real, Team, Passion

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