1. Pay attention during the course of a week and note on paper or in a journal the number of times you observe Level One Leadership occurring around you. Note the circumstance and the specific behavior that you observed.
2. Note during the course of a week how many times you tell someone to do something without concern for how they think or feel.
3. Reflect on your personal history and note in your journal incidents in which you were commanded to do something regardless of what you thought or how you felt. Note how you felt during those incidents.
4. When you try to influence another, how often and well do you use logic and data to make your points?
5. Do you assume that others are mature, rational, logical people and that they should agree with the strength of your logical arguments?
6. When another tries to influence you, do you ever ask, “What data make you reach that conclusion?” or “How did you reach your conclusion?” in the attempt to uncover their logic and their supporting data?
7. Consider all of the people you’ve met thus far in life. In your estimation, what proportion of them responds to sound logic and robust data?
8. In what areas of life do you observe lower levels of logic and data than in others? What about business and business-related decisions?
9. Consider all of the business decisions that you’ve come in contact with thus far in life. What proportions of them were made on the basis of sound logic and robust databases? Why?