Excerpt from the YouTube video "Communication For Leadership Success" (Jesse Ferrell, uploaded 2020-02-14). This short transcript captures a post-talk discussion/Q&A where multiple participants (SAM; SPEAKER B–E) respond to the speaker: calling leadership a craft, emphasizing the idea "thoughts are things" and how ideas take form, and praising the program for focusing on practical specifics.
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Sam.
Leadership is a craft. Yes. Studied. Yes. And it's very apparent that you studied your craft well. You're giving me chills.
I'm serious. I literally have the chills because Ken is getting it. And this is not from a bracketocious perspective. That's not what it's about. It's about doing the work. And Ken, is my work done? Am I done? No.
I'm just.
Getting started. Thoughts are things. Thoughts are things. Yes.
That's the thought that kept resonating with me as you were talking about creating vision, and which is why when you said I started with nothing, I. I blurted out, no, because you had a thought, you had an idea, but that's a real thing. And then once you realize that thoughts are things, when you put them out, regurgitate on paper, they take form, and you're.
I've been to a lot of programs like this, and I think this was the best. And the reason why I think it was the best because it. It honed in on specifics. Sometimes you go and people are just all around, and you're trying to figure out where to pick, what's applying to. Kept it right on base. It's really good. Thank you.