7 AUDIO and Video clips in support of Leadership Education..

1) PERCEPTION.. How reliable is your perception?

PERCEPTION: Dan Simon's work on Attention Blindness. To what else might we be blind, only all the time?

2) CONVERSATION TYPES: In what conversation do you find yourself? In what conversation do you wish to be in?

The Argument (Sound Only): Conversation Types - In what conversation do you wish to be? In what conversation do you find yourself?

3) SPEECH ACTS: Noticing them and using them for improved coordinated action

USS Montana: Speech Acts - Listen for Requests, Declarations, Assertions, Assessments: How often do we confuse these four speech acts?

4) SPEECH ACTS: Noticing them and using them for improved coordinated action

"Houston: We have a problem!" Apollo 13 (Sound Only): Speech Acts - Listen for Assessments, Assertions, and Declarations.

5) TRUST: Is an assessment, and a work in progress; Is fundamental to all coordinated action; Four distinctions are valuable if shared

NASA's 1960's Mercury Mission (Sound Only): Trust - John Glenn trusts Katherine Johnson's "Go / No Go" re-entry calculations over the new IBM "hunk of metal" - Glenn's assessment of Katherine's reliability and competence in the domain of calculating re-entry coordinates underlies his trusting his life on her calculations. In addition, Katherine’s authenticity, humility, and caring for others endeared her to others, helping build trust.

6) PROMISES vs EXPECTATIONS: Are you “shoulding” yourself and others? Or, living into well defined and managed promises?

7) “Five Blind Men” by David Roth from his album Rising in Love - A brilliant poem sung to a beautiful tune by an excellent singer..

In this version of an ancient story the narrator reflects on the lessons learned from an elephant and 5 blind men. What have you learned?