Jobs and CareersLeadership Lessons From the Comedy of French and Saunders - Why Are Those Horses Hard to Catch?
By Jay Koch
In the video "Ponies" by French and Saunders, it takes the two hapless characters a long time to catch their horses. The video is very funny, but there is a leadership lesson to be learned from their plight.
In the video, the characters portrayed by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders want to start a day of playing with their horses. However, it takes them a long time to catch their horses. We see them chasing the horses all around the pasture, and finally sitting forlornly on the fence munching the grain treats that were supposed to lure the horses in. The two women run to the horses when they are cornered, and they gingerly catch them. They say,
"That's a record then."
"Yeah, just the eight hours this time."
We laugh because we know that most of us would give up chasing our horses before the eight hour time limit. But, there is a leadership lesson here.
Horses can be taught to be caught. The strategy is to apply pressure by swinging a rope or something like that when they are running away and taking the pressure off when they stop. If they want to run, great, but it's a whole lot easier to stop and be with the person. Eventually the horse will stop evading and try to figure out where the good deal is, which is with the person.
But more importantly, a good leader inspires followers to want to be with them. If the two women in the video had developed a relationship with their horses where the horses perceived them as being fun to be with, the horses would come running over to them. Those two horses would rather just graze, and they perceived their humans as ineffective leaders, so they just ignored or ran away from them.
The key for those to women would be to learn enough about the psychology of horses so that they could assume leadership role in the herd. They would find that their horses like them better and that they would have a lot more fun.
When you watch this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWd_r2sOPhs, look for how lack of leadership makes their horse experience much more difficult.
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You don't have to have a horse to learn how horsemanship will help you be a better leader. Let me share my life lessons I learned while astride my horse.
http://TheBestHorseSense.com
Jay Koch
505-565-8526
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Leadership Lessons From Comedy of French and Saunders - Why Won't That Horse Lift His Hoof?
By Jay Koch
I recently watched a very funny video titled "Ponies" by the comedy team of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. In this video, the characters these two comediennes play have a hard time getting their horses to do what they want them to do, but seem perfectly happy while being with their horses. Their comedy bit is perfect for teaching how NOT to be a leader with your horse.
At one point in the video, Dawn's character asks her horse, Peter Pan, to lift his hoof so that she can check to see if the hoof is clean. She reaches down, asks him thrice to lift his hoof, then gives up. She stands up and says,
"I think it will be alright."
Jennifer pats Peter Pan on his rump and says, "It looks alright to me."
The bit is funny because horse owners can see themselves in giving up on a task because it gets hard or the horse doesn't respond. But, there is a leadership lesson here. When Peter Pan did not respond to Dawn's request, and she gave up before he responded, Peter Pan learned that Dawn is not a serious leader, and it is perfectly OK to ignore her. We see this happen in other parts of the video when Peter Pan grazes when Dawn asks him to move. He has no respect for her as a leader.
We see this leadership error happen when we deal with people, too. A teenager gets in trouble and gets grounded for two weeks. He mopes around so much that mom and dad get tired of him being there and they lift the grounding. The kid learns that the folks aren't strong in their leadership, and he will be more willing to test their authority next time. We see it when a basketball player thinks he is a superstar and does not run the offense the way the coach defines it. If the coach does not yank that player from the game, that player will learn that it's OK to be a hotdog and not a team player. The failure would not be the player's fault, but it would be a lack of leadership by the coach.
If my horse were to not give me a foot when I asked, I would at least insist that he moved the foot a little bit. I would reward him for that try by resting a little bit. Then we would try again. Because he would see that I would not give up asking until he responded, the horse respects me more. And if I ask politely and consistently, the horse eventually wants to do what I ask him to do. At that point we become partners and a team.
When you watch this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWd_r2sOPhs, look for how lack of leadership makes their horse experience much more difficult.
You don't have to have a horse to learn how horsemanship will help you be a better leader. Let me share my life lessons I learned while astride my horse.
http://TheBestHorseSense.com
Jay Koch
505-565-8526
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Why People Want to Be Shown the Way
By Jerome Ratliff
Are you aware that most start-up businesses fail within their first year of business? Why do you think that is? Well, the smartest business leaders have uncovered one of the major contributors to that failure.
People want to be shown the way!
Take for example an entrepreneur who's thinking of starting their own restaurant, with no assistance other than their determination to succeed. From the beginning, they are learning everything it takes to run their business but, while they are learning, their business is suffering. At this point, this is where most people hit a fork in the road, to either continue on or throw in the towel. Those that continue on will eventually make it, but only after a few years of breaking even. The others that choose to throw in the towel will never experience the taste of success.
Unfortunately, that's exactly what most start-ups do. They start a business without the know how of running a business all while getting frustrated without any direction.
Now let's say there's an entrepreneur that wants to plug into a successful business model like network marketing, where you have the ability to use the power of leverage and plug into a duplicable system. What do you think their chances of success will be now?
Assuming that the entrepreneur plugs into the system of course, their chances of success are almost doubled. They have doubled their chances of success because they are being shown the way. And, when they show other entrepreneurs who join with them, they too are being shown the way. Therefore, everyone wins.
Why reinvent the wheel if you don't have to! Use a proven business model that works and is easy to replicate. In essence, it's a shortcut to having a successful business.
Find any leader that is not doing this, then you have a recipe for instant failure. However, find a leader that is following this business concept, then you have, a recipe for success.
Jerome Ratliff
Wealth builder, Independent Associate, and a creator of business systems for network marketing businesses. Jerome is a leader well known for sharing his "Building Your MLM Business System" with many around the globe. Visit http://JeromeRatliff.com to learn about the endeavors Jerome has embarked over the years.
By Jay Koch
In the video "Ponies" by French and Saunders, it takes the two hapless characters a long time to catch their horses. The video is very funny, but there is a leadership lesson to be learned from their plight.
In the video, the characters portrayed by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders want to start a day of playing with their horses. However, it takes them a long time to catch their horses. We see them chasing the horses all around the pasture, and finally sitting forlornly on the fence munching the grain treats that were supposed to lure the horses in. The two women run to the horses when they are cornered, and they gingerly catch them. They say,
"That's a record then."
"Yeah, just the eight hours this time."
We laugh because we know that most of us would give up chasing our horses before the eight hour time limit. But, there is a leadership lesson here.
Horses can be taught to be caught. The strategy is to apply pressure by swinging a rope or something like that when they are running away and taking the pressure off when they stop. If they want to run, great, but it's a whole lot easier to stop and be with the person. Eventually the horse will stop evading and try to figure out where the good deal is, which is with the person.
But more importantly, a good leader inspires followers to want to be with them. If the two women in the video had developed a relationship with their horses where the horses perceived them as being fun to be with, the horses would come running over to them. Those two horses would rather just graze, and they perceived their humans as ineffective leaders, so they just ignored or ran away from them.
The key for those to women would be to learn enough about the psychology of horses so that they could assume leadership role in the herd. They would find that their horses like them better and that they would have a lot more fun.
When you watch this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWd_r2sOPhs, look for how lack of leadership makes their horse experience much more difficult.
----------------
You don't have to have a horse to learn how horsemanship will help you be a better leader. Let me share my life lessons I learned while astride my horse.
http://TheBestHorseSense.com
Jay Koch
505-565-8526
==================================
Leadership Lessons From Comedy of French and Saunders - Why Won't That Horse Lift His Hoof?
By Jay Koch
I recently watched a very funny video titled "Ponies" by the comedy team of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. In this video, the characters these two comediennes play have a hard time getting their horses to do what they want them to do, but seem perfectly happy while being with their horses. Their comedy bit is perfect for teaching how NOT to be a leader with your horse.
At one point in the video, Dawn's character asks her horse, Peter Pan, to lift his hoof so that she can check to see if the hoof is clean. She reaches down, asks him thrice to lift his hoof, then gives up. She stands up and says,
"I think it will be alright."
Jennifer pats Peter Pan on his rump and says, "It looks alright to me."
The bit is funny because horse owners can see themselves in giving up on a task because it gets hard or the horse doesn't respond. But, there is a leadership lesson here. When Peter Pan did not respond to Dawn's request, and she gave up before he responded, Peter Pan learned that Dawn is not a serious leader, and it is perfectly OK to ignore her. We see this happen in other parts of the video when Peter Pan grazes when Dawn asks him to move. He has no respect for her as a leader.
We see this leadership error happen when we deal with people, too. A teenager gets in trouble and gets grounded for two weeks. He mopes around so much that mom and dad get tired of him being there and they lift the grounding. The kid learns that the folks aren't strong in their leadership, and he will be more willing to test their authority next time. We see it when a basketball player thinks he is a superstar and does not run the offense the way the coach defines it. If the coach does not yank that player from the game, that player will learn that it's OK to be a hotdog and not a team player. The failure would not be the player's fault, but it would be a lack of leadership by the coach.
If my horse were to not give me a foot when I asked, I would at least insist that he moved the foot a little bit. I would reward him for that try by resting a little bit. Then we would try again. Because he would see that I would not give up asking until he responded, the horse respects me more. And if I ask politely and consistently, the horse eventually wants to do what I ask him to do. At that point we become partners and a team.
When you watch this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWd_r2sOPhs, look for how lack of leadership makes their horse experience much more difficult.
You don't have to have a horse to learn how horsemanship will help you be a better leader. Let me share my life lessons I learned while astride my horse.
http://TheBestHorseSense.com
Jay Koch
505-565-8526
==================================
Why People Want to Be Shown the Way
By Jerome Ratliff
Are you aware that most start-up businesses fail within their first year of business? Why do you think that is? Well, the smartest business leaders have uncovered one of the major contributors to that failure.
People want to be shown the way!
Take for example an entrepreneur who's thinking of starting their own restaurant, with no assistance other than their determination to succeed. From the beginning, they are learning everything it takes to run their business but, while they are learning, their business is suffering. At this point, this is where most people hit a fork in the road, to either continue on or throw in the towel. Those that continue on will eventually make it, but only after a few years of breaking even. The others that choose to throw in the towel will never experience the taste of success.
Unfortunately, that's exactly what most start-ups do. They start a business without the know how of running a business all while getting frustrated without any direction.
Now let's say there's an entrepreneur that wants to plug into a successful business model like network marketing, where you have the ability to use the power of leverage and plug into a duplicable system. What do you think their chances of success will be now?
Assuming that the entrepreneur plugs into the system of course, their chances of success are almost doubled. They have doubled their chances of success because they are being shown the way. And, when they show other entrepreneurs who join with them, they too are being shown the way. Therefore, everyone wins.
Why reinvent the wheel if you don't have to! Use a proven business model that works and is easy to replicate. In essence, it's a shortcut to having a successful business.
Find any leader that is not doing this, then you have a recipe for instant failure. However, find a leader that is following this business concept, then you have, a recipe for success.
Jerome Ratliff
Wealth builder, Independent Associate, and a creator of business systems for network marketing businesses. Jerome is a leader well known for sharing his "Building Your MLM Business System" with many around the globe. Visit http://JeromeRatliff.com to learn about the endeavors Jerome has embarked over the years.
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