Chick-fil-A Leadercast 2012: Sheena Iyengar

• What is leadership?

• How is effective leadership defined?

• How did you get to your position of leadership?

• How did you get where you are today?

• How did you achiever your level of success?

1. Fate?

2. Chance?

3. Choice? This results in critical actions taken at critical moments

• Choice is only one of these that puts control in your hands!

• Choice is the powerful tool for determining our future.

• We are all the sum of our choices.

• Residents of ex-communist block countries were overwhelmed with all the new choices when they came out of those cultures.

• Our cultural assumptions impact our choices.

• Effective leaders see choices through others eyes.

• People making a choice actually buy more when there are fewer options.

• Great leaders are great practitioners in the art of choosing.

• Effective leaders spend time only on the choices that matter

• 50% of decisions CEOs make is in 9 minutes or less, only 10% take an hour or more

• Great leaders are choosy about the choices they make

• Making good choices is an art, in order to do it well it requires you to examine and discover yourself

• Great leaders are great at the art of choosing

• Choice has its limitations, have to be willing to relinquish it at times

• The trick to take advantage of choice while not becoming subject to it

• A leader is someone who can live with nothing but has everything.