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Leadership from a Gangster’s Point of View
Naked Leader Week 946 – 25 October 2021
Time to read: 42 seconds
For the last 20 years I have believed that the single most powerful how-to of them all is that the fastest way to make any change in your life is to act as-if that change has already been made – originating over 100 years ago and made popular by Neuro Linguistic Programming.
In a 13 second film voice-over, that changed…
In 2019 BC – Before Covid – Rosalind and I went to see Guy Richie’s film ‘The Gentlemen’.
Normally – even though people tell me its far from normal – I take a small notebook to the cinema – to write down anything that inspires me.
On this occasion I left it behind, after all, I thought, what could possibly be worth writing down from a gangster film?
As the film was about to begin, it actually felt quite relaxing – cathartic even – that I could simply enjoy the film for its own sake.
In the opening scene Michael Pearson – Matthew McConaughey – walks into a pub, orders a pint and a pickled egg and sits down, when we hear a voice over from the same character:
‘If you wish to be the king of the jungle
it’s not enough to act like a king.
You must be the king.
And there can be no doubt.
Because doubt causes chaos, and one’s own demise.’
WOW – that is one stage beyond ‘As-If’
WOW – I must write that down
PANIC – I have no notebook – I even left my phone at home!
So I kept saying these lines over and over – concentrating on the film after that was tough!
I needn’t have bothered – because those very same words are repeated – right at the end of the film!!!
They may be Guy Richie’s own words, their origins may be elsewhere.
No matter…
Have an Outcome
Don’t act as-if you have achieved it
Be It
With my love and best wishes to Guy Richie, and to you all
David
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