Vernon Myers
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Vernon Myers Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Leadership, Creativity, Ideas, and Ideation
- Career Focus
- Author, Speaker, and Coach
- Affiliation
- CEO Space International
Vernon is a passionate leader of people and organizations. His leadership experience ranges from leading combat infantry units to leading design-build efforts for live simulators to leading contingency contracting organizations. His open-minded approach to leadership revolves around collaboration, inspiration, trust and quickly creating results.
Using skills gained from a lifetime of learning and practical experience, Vernon provides innovative solutions to challenging problems – he is not content with easy solutions or the first “right” answer. As a career U.S. Army Officer, he has worked and traveled in the Pacific, Middle East, and South and Central America.
He is the founder of 100 Leadership Insights.com, a website dedicated to sharing and discussing insights on leadership between practicing leaders world-wide. He is the author of The Idea journal, a book that helps people to unleash their urge to create. Vernon is offering a free 5-week E-Course based upon the concepts from The Idea journal. He is also a featured author in the book 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, a self-development book.
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Leaders Think!
The most important skill a leader possesses is the ability to think. Remember, when you were a student in school, your teacher always told you to put your “thinking cap” on? It’s still true; leaders must always have their thinking caps on to operate at their highest level. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company and the thinker credited with creating the first manufacturing assembly line said, “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
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Leaders Recognize That Leading is A Gift
Leadership is a privilege reserved for those who are ready for the awesome responsibility of training, developing, mentoring, guiding, and correcting the people who are under their charge. The task of leadership offers long hours, lots of hard work, frustration, setbacks, and obstacles…leadership is not easy, yet like anything else you get out of it what you put into it.
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Leaders Are Proactive, Not Reactive
Have you ever been in a situation where you saw a leader take a specific action, yet you had no idea "why" or "how" the leader decided to take that specific action? Well, I have too! That's why I decided to study various leaders that I have worked with over 22 years and before long, I started to get insights into why leaders do what they do. More importantly, I started to understand that what a leader does is much deeper than the specific action he takes.
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Top 25 Creativity Quotations
What is creativity? Use these quotes from famous people to think about what it means to be creative. 1. "Creativity is the infinite capacity that resides within you. It involves combining information with your life experiences." - Wayne Lotherington 2. "Creativity is not in the execution, but in the exploration." - John Pearson 3. "I have always felt that the highest human expression comes in our creative endeavors, those which draw upon all of our powers of imagination, intelligence, and understanding." - Armand Hammer
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Leaders Are Students of Leadership
Leadership is about growth and development, if you are not growing and developing on a continuous basis, you are simply not working hard enough. Leading is like being a student in a laboratory; every day you should conduct experiments to see what works and what doesn’t. After trying your hand at leading, you go back to the drawing board to tweak your style and approach. Students are constantly challenged to look for new ideas and to develop fresh thinking. The key is to keep learning.
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Leaders Fight for Their Creative Vision
I recently watched the movie, “Saving Mr. Banks,” a Walt Disney film that shows the process that Walt and Mrs. P.L. Travers used in creating the movie “Mary Poppins.” The thing that stood out to me the most is that the creative process is messy, yet, it’s full of joy and happiness. The creative process is frustrating and rife with obstacles and barriers, yet, it’s inspiring and uplifting, as well. There is constant starting, stopping, redoing, and editing that drives you mad, yet, it’s collaborative and spirited.
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You Can Create Anything You Can Imagine
Did you know that you possess the most powerful idea factory in the world on your shoulders? Your thoughts, ideas, insights, and intuitions can be brought to life by using the creative power of your imagination. What is the imagination? Imagination is the ability to create a mental picture of a thought, idea, insight or intuition in your mind. Focus on One Idea
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Leaders Anticipate Change, Prepare For Change, and Lead Change
What is change? Put simply, change is an effort to improve an organization in some way. This change could take the form of new processes and procedures, upgrades to a new system, changes to the organizational structure, or changes to roles and responsibilities. Leaders understand that the only constant in today’s environment is...change! Leaders do not have the luxury of sitting back and waiting for change to wreak havoc on their organizations - a leader has to lead change.
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Leaders Think Integration
Organizational Environment Today, large organizations are extremely complex and busier than ever. Because of their size, they face greater challenges, such as increasing competition and an increasingly global environment to operate in. To consistently produce outstanding results, organizations must overcome the challenge of figuring out how to capitalize on the full talent, skill, and ability of its workforce.
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Leaders Ask For Resources to Accomplish the Mission
As the leader of an organization, you need resources to accomplish your mission. As you execute your daily mission, you may identify gaps or shortfalls that impede mission success.
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12 Reasons to Use an Idea journal
1. Using an idea journal is fast, easy, and convenient. It will take you less than 15 minutes each day to record your ideas, goals, and dreams into your idea journal. 2. Your idea journal will motivate you to take action on your most valuable and promising ideas. Use the idea journal to track your creative ideas. These ideas may be the launch pad to your desired future; you must have a system to record each idea in order to capitalize on it in the future. 3. Helps you to maintain a laser-focus on your goals, dreams, and ideas - you must stay disciplined and persistent.
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Leaders Have Fun!
Leaders must lead the way in all things, including having fun – the energy and enthusiasm generated by the leader will have an immediate impact on the organization. Employees look to their leaders for cues on “how” to act. If the boss is having fun, employees will pick up the vibe and have fun too. The disposition and demeanor of the leader is a key component of an organizations’ work environment.
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Verno Myers.com
This is my blog where I focus on the intersection of leadership and creativity with the intent of helping leaders to unleash their creative abilities.
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The Idea journal E-Course
The Idea journal E-Course is a free, 5 week course that will help to jumpstart your achievement.
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100 Leadership Insights.com
100 Leadership Insights.com is focused on sharing and discussing insights on leadership and helping leaders improve their leadership skills.
September 2, 2012