Congratulations on completing these past few months of Advanced Thought Leadership Training. You have completed The Pipeline!
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At the beginning you said “I will enter” the pipeline. This decision was an exercise in making an act of will. It was an exercise in making a commitment and then keeping that commitment.
The time and effort you have invested in developing your willpower and your commitment to exploring and experimenting with the Pipeline and the Orange leadership tools will bring its own rewards.
How you use these ideas in your own life is, of course, now up to you. This is just a fresh opportunity for you to design a bvs in your life.
OPT-IN/OPT-OUT
As always, SOT training is offered on an opt-in/opt-out basis.
As you would expect, you get out of it what you put into it. Although the training is the same for everyone, it is interesting to see how different people take different things away from this training. What do you think that you will take away?
DFQ#21 Take Away Value:
If you were to tell a friend what you think is the most important thing you have taken away from this Advanced Thought Leadership Training, what would you say it was for you personally? What difference (if any) do you think it will make in your life?

If I were to tell a friend about the Advanced Leadership Training, I would mention that, for me, it was an opportunity to realize, hone in on, and develop skills that enable me to be not only a good leader of other people, but, most importantly, myself. Entering, crawling through, and finally coming out on the other end of the pipeline is truly an experience, and one that will be kept with me in perpetuity.
i would be telling friends of a better understanding of my own ability to change my situation through cvs2bvs and also how useful the tools , pto and the pipeline commitment could be for them to achieve positive outcomes in their own lives. the training is already making a difference in my life. instead of seeing problems as a nuisance i am now searching for a bvs and feeling more in control of my own destiny. thanks michael it has been mentally stimulating
The most important thing that I have learned personally from this Advanced Leadership Training is that leadership and follower-ship (Peal The Orange) are two sides of the same success coin.
~Lance
The most important thing I have learnt in this Advanced Leadership Training is that as a leader I have to show people I care for them and I know and understand them while they peel the orange. Thank you, Michael.
I seems that it is the accumulative affect of such training that is the most interesting I find, there is no sudden bang that everything falls in place in the mind, but the ongoing thought provoking questions and queries that allows the mind to stay attuned to problems, possibilities and outcomes, to ingrain bvs. And the beauty of knowing that there are others out there doing the same thing is a mighty bonus, we are not alone in wanting to think.
The importance of just getting things done and honoring my commitments. Leadership is all about getting the collective data from everyone in the group and making decisions in the best interest of the group and the goal
The pipeline – enter and follow through bit by bit. I peel oranges in dfifferent ways now. New brain waves have been created and used. Thankyou .
Definitely the pipeline is the biggest takeaway for me. It is making explicit something that I knew before, and by identifying it as a strategy it makes it easier to get started and see something through to the next stage.
First, it is a pipeline concept. Once entered, you have committed to something for (in) your life. There no way to turn left/right, but rather to get to the other end of a pipeline chosen.
Second, PTO – just do it, no hesitation, no waste of time, – either you’ve done it the best way you can, or you are just dust on your boots (you definitively don’t want to be).
The impact of continuous small stimuli to think is huge!
It inspires me to create a similar platform for the people I work with in my team and also for my customers and clients.
I guess this might be one of the biggest leaps in my professional and also private life.
Thank you so much!!!