Because the “L” in\u00a0YCISL\u00a0stands for Leadership, I will make a note of the passing of Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore. Although the YCISL program does not look to adults as leadership role models, there are quite a few valuable leadership life lessons that can be\u00a0identified from Mr. Lee’s career. Although there are many news articles being published on this, I will use the WSJ article “Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore\u2019s Founding Father, Dies at 91” published March 22, 2015 as a reference point in order to highlight the YCISL topics.<\/p>\n
The greatest leaders are those who reach back to their youth life experience to make their marks as adults. Their success is undoubtedly connected to the influence that youthful optimism and imagination had on their thinking and motivation. Their soft skills strength likely began development in their youth and they sustained growth of these\u00a0skills.<\/p>\n
But more than that (and as pointed out in this WSJ article), Mr. Lee succeeded despite criticism – the type of scathing adult criticism we discuss in YCISL that deters people from being expressively creative and optimistically motivated. He demonstrated high emotional intelligence, and understood how to balance and shift priorities in order to repeatedly attain visionary results.<\/p>\n
No other political figure that I can think of has ever exhibited the same high level of commitment and enthusiasm. “Father Figure” comes to mind and that is also a core element of YCISL which is based largely on parental skills, emotions and thinking. A belief in\u00a0intrinsic motivation (let’s call this in-mot from now on)\u00a0was strong in particular because of the attention paid to mastery, autonomy and purpose – fostering it in himself and sharing it with his people; this is evident in the\u00a0economic, social and educational accomplishments and gains experienced during his presence. And all this was achieved\u00a0in the model of a start-up – few resources, little capital and a\u00a0team of people who believed and shared a vision.<\/p>\n
Well done, Mr. Lee.<\/p>\n
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