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Sam Swaminathan
Leadership in the New Millennium
Why Should Anyone Be Led By you?
WHAT PRICE PROGRESS?
• The age of progress might have lightened our physical load – but it has numbed our minds and taken our spirit away from work.
• Speed and change are no longer linear or additive.
INTERNET TIME
“We can’t wait for evolution: three million years to grow a lung, another twenty to learn to walk upright, sixty more to grasp a spear, ten more to light a fire.”
– Peter Senge
first thinkingthen decidingfollowed by acting swiftlyand finally, reflecting
LEADERSHIP IS ABOUT
thinking – explorationdeciding – evaluation/selectionacting swiftly - edgereflecting – analysis/introspection
All of the above are intensely intellectual activities.
LEADERSHIP IS ABOUT
• To become rich, I have to be miserable.
• To be successful, I have to be unfair to my customers and employees.
• I must dominate to win.
• I must know everything.
• I have to make all the decisions.
MYTHS ABOUT LEADERSHIP
“If we were to think of the leader as a storyteller, whose stories must wrestle with those that are already operative in the minds of their audience, we get a powerful way of conceptualizing the work of leading.
“It is important for leaders to know their stories, to get them straight, to communicate them effectively, and above all, to embody in their lives the stories that they tell.”
Howard Gardner
LEADERS ARE STORYTELLERS
GREAT LEADERS ARE DREAMERS
“There is always a dream in all enterprise, but the dream if it lasts, one day becomes a reality” – Jean Monnet [One Europe, One World]
“India must be able to face Britain as an equal nation, and not as a subordinate colony. India could not, and should not, remain a British possession.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi’s greatest contributions extended well beyond the Indian subcontinent. Through his inspired writings and his own embodiment of personal courage, he conveyed to people around the world that it is possible to resist injustice in a way that is honorable, does not involve counterattack, and may even bring about resolutions that empower all concerned.
GREAT LEADERS ARE DREAMERS
Leaders are infinitely patient in negotiations, never accept defeat as permanent, and adhere steadily to the single progressive and inclusionary idea that animates their lives.
Most human progress is owed to this belief.
LEADERS ARE BELIEVERS
“The best leaders have an almost magical ability to turn a phrase and articulate their agenda for the organization graphically, compellingly, memorably.”
- Robert Kaplan
Leadership entails exciting people’s imaginations and inspiring them to move in a desired direction. It takes more than simple power to motivate and lead.
LEADERS ARE EXCITING
“Don’t ever lock this door again.” Bill Hewlett - HP
This does more to prize trust than any lecture.
LEADERS ARE EXCITING
GREAT LEADERS DON’T ARRIVE ALONE AT THE FINISH LINE
The ways in which leaders conduct their lives – their embodiments – must be clearly perceptible by those whom they hope to influence. People who do not practice what they preach are hypocrites, and hypocrisy mutes the effectiveness of their stories.
LEADERS ARE CREDIBLE
LEADERSHIP CRISIS
Gillette
Lucent
Campbell
Coca-Cola
Xerox
Mattel
P&G
Michael Hawley
Rick McGinn
Dale Morrison
Doug Ivestor
Rick Thoman
Jill Barad
Dirk Jager
Tyranny is not leadership.
Cruelty is not edge.
- Jack Welch on Leadership
GandhiGandhi MandelaMandela
Havel Havel Mother TeresaMother Teresa
Martin Luther KingMartin Luther King
Change doesn’t have to Change doesn’t have to start at the top.start at the top.
The Activist’s Rule
They possessed no political power, yet each disrupted history.It was passion, not power, that allowed them to do so.
The Activist’s Rule
Leadership – The GE Way
PASSION
Source – Fortune 24/9/2001
A Leadership Development Model
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T1 T1 – Say goodbye now
T2T2 – Coach, give a chance
T3T3 – Tyrant.Warn – if no change, get rid
T4T4 – Make them role models
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A Leadership Development Model
• LEARN
• EMPATHIZE
• ACT
• DREAM
WHAT IT MEANS TO LEAD
YOU!
LEADERSHIP IS ABOUT
Leadership is not something that you do. It is an expression of who you are.
- Kevin Cashman
Brought to you by
Sam SwaminathanSam SwaminathanCenter for Creative Thinking
http://www.ccthinking.com
HELPING YOU THINK DIFFERENTLY