leadership summit: developing transforming leaders
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LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
Robert Hargrove
What is Leadership
Let’s study leadership in the context of history,then in business.
Our traditional view of leadership is images of charismatic Presidents, Prime Ministers, CEOs who wield tremendous power & speak to people from on high.
In fact, genuine leadership has little to do with one’s position, and speaking to people from on high or dominating others.
Leaders are often ordinary people who dare to take a stand for needed change when leaders at the top have are stuck in defending their position or the status quo.
Transactional leadership is the everyday leadership needed to be a good steward or run the business
It involves reaching middle of the road goals and incremental change through making deals, bargains, and tradeoffs
Transforming leadership is the kind of leadership that alters the course of history
It involves raising the aspirations and motivations of followers
Leadership is mobilizing people toward a transforming vision consistent with
supreme and enduring values
Leadership without ethics and values is just mere technique
How do you develop leaders
A recent study shows...
the Development of Leadership
Studying Leadership Competencies
Instead, start to think of leadership, not as a set of characteristics, but as
an ACTION you take
People are called to leadership by throbbing human needs and wants
Seoul after Korean War Seoul Today
Leadership represents the triumph of possibility over resignation
There are certain moments that are “historic moments”
when it becomes possible for individuals to make a difference, resulting in the triumph of possibility over resignation
Social Media
Courageous People
Leadership arises when we recognize an opportunity to make a difference and dare to take a stand
Google executive who touched off the Egyptian Revolution
Leaders must win people over – both supporters and opposers
Everything we have said about political leadership
applies to business leadership
Most CEO’s are transactional leaders who focus on “running the business” –
the daily process of bargaining
Yet to reach an Impossible Future or create a Game Changeryou must become TransformingLeaders
You need transforming leadership when reputations are being destroyed by a moral crisis
Toyota Motor Corp President Katsuaki Watanabe
Do you hear the call to leadership from employees who feel stifled or customers who are frustrated?
You and I are presented with opportunities to make a difference
every day on the job with…
Investors, Customers, Employees, Suppliers
Leadership development depends on recognizing these
opportunities when presented to us and daring to…
TAKE A STAND
The next step is to develop skills
We have discovered 10 elements of aLeader’s DNA Code
IconoclastsUnleash your entrepreneurial power. Leaders follow their own passions, talents, and gifts, whether they succeed or fail. Stop trying to look good, play it safe, conform.
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I never wanted to be an entrepreneur or business person. I wanted to do things I was proud of.
-Richard Branson
Become Your Own SeerYou can’t see new possibilities sitting behind your desk weighted down by corporate policy and industry orthodoxy.
Get up and travel outside your business, outside your industry.
The future belongs to people who see new possibilities before they become obvious and act on them.
-Mark Zuckerberg, CEO
2
Empathy
Ask yourself, where have all significant competitors in your
market gotten too lazy or lost touch with customers and
employees?” -Herb Kelleher, CEO
Southwest Airlines on creating a new niche
The voice of the customer has got to
be ringing in your ear
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Impossible Future
Take a stand for an Impossible Future and communicate it with every breath you take.
4
From Third World to First. –PM Lee, Singapore
Be a Game ChangerYou change the game with disruptive technology,
innovative business concepts, and creating a value network.
5
Build capabilities that support the Impossible Future
Disruptive Innovation starts with leveraging the company capabilities and strategic assets you
already have.
6
Mastering the Political Chessboard
7
You need to go for a big dream and make big decisions when you are
in a position of power and leverage.
You need to build coalitions and go for quick wins to build
credibility when you are not.
Brazil’s Lula da Silva
Following Your Own True North
It’s important to not bend your
values when you are under stress
and pressure.
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If we can get the values lined up with
performance, then this is an absolutely
unbeatable company.–James McNerney,
CEO, Boeing
Be a Multiplier vs. Diminisher
Multipliers make everyone around them feel smarter and more
capable.
My role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work
environments.
You can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos
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Results DrivenI decided that I would go for a breakthrough that would seriously impact the stock price before my first 100 days was up.
I decided to use innovation and operational excellence to drive revenue growth and profit growth.
-Greg Goff, CEO, Tesoro, Fortune 500 oil company, doubled stock price in 6 months
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The leader’s DNA Code is translated into specific learnable behavior
These leadership skills are intuitive. Yet when it comes to the actual practice, “doing them is counterintuitive.”
That’s because the corporate world “does not value these actions.”
Start by setting an Impossible Future for your company and asking each person to create an impossible goal.
Reading
Classroom Coaching
Stretch Assignments
Provide people with leadership development support:
Think of one thing you will do differently as a
leader on Monday morning as a result of being here
today.
What is it?
Robert [email protected]
Edward [email protected]
CMOE, Masterful Coaching Korea
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