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Explore the evolving nature of leadership in the rapidly changing times and learn how leaders can adapt and thrive in the face of uncertainty and ambiguity.
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Leading in Totally Screwed Up TimesTom PetersLinkage/09.12.2001 (postponed)
<1000A.D.: paradigm shift: 1000s of years1000: 100 years for paradigm shift1800s: > prior 900 years1900s: 1st 20 years > 1800s2000: 10 years for paradigm shift21st century: 1000X tech change than 20th century (“the ‘Singularity,’ a merger between humans and computers that is so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history”)Ray Kurzweil, talk april2001
“Most of our predictions are based on very linear thinking. That’s why they will most likely be wrong.”Vinod Khosla, in “GIGATRENDS,” Wired 04.01
CEOs appointed after 1985 are 3X more likely to be fired than CEOs appointed before 1985Warren Bennis, MIT Sloan Management Review
Leaders-Teachers Do Not “Transform People”!Instead leaders-mentors-teachers (1) provide a context which is marked by (2) access to a luxuriant portfolio of meaningful opportunities(projects) which (3) allow people to fully (and safely, mostly—caveat: “they” don’t engage unless they’re “mad about something”) express their innate curiosity and (4) engage in a vigorous discovery voyage(alone and in small teams, assisted by an extensive self-constructed network) by which those people (5) go to-create places they(and their mentors-teachers-leaders)had never dreamed existed—and then the leaders-mentors-teachers (6) applaud like hell, stage “photo-ops,” and ring the church bells 100 times to commemorate the bravery of their “followers’ ” explorations!
2. Great Leaders on Snorting Steeds Are Important – but Great Managers(Type I Leadership) are the Bedrock of Organizations that Perform Over the Long Haul.
3. But Then Again, There Are Times When This “Cult of Personality” (Type II Leadership) Stuff Actually Works!
The Golden Leadership Triangle: (1) Creator-Inventor-Visionary … (2) Talent Fanatic … (3) Inspired Profit Mechanic.
Project Team Golden Triangle(1) Champion-Maniac. (2) Implementer-Pol. (3) Schedule & Budgets Fanatic.
33 Division Titles. 26 League Pennants. 14 World Series: Earl Weaver—0. Tom Kelly—0. Jim Leyland—0. Walter Alston—1AB. Tony LaRussa—132 games, 6 seasons. Tommy Lasorda—P, 26 games. Sparky Anderson—1 season.
The Kotler Doctrine:1965-1980: R.A.F.(Ready.Aim.Fire.)1980-1995: R.F.A.(Ready.Fire!Aim.)1995-????: F.F.F.(Fire!Fire!Fire!)
“The leader who says ‘I don’t know’ essentially says that the group is facing a new ballgame where the old tools of logic may be its undoing rather than its salvation. To drop these tools is not to give up on finding a workable answer. It is only to give up on one means of answering that is ill-suited to the unstable, the unknowable, the unpredictable. To drop the heavy tools of rationality is to gain access to lightness in the form of intuitions, feelings, stories, experience, active listening, shared humanity, awareness in the moment, capability for fascination, awe, novel words and empathy.” - Karl Weick
Heart of the MatterF2F!/K2K!/1@T/R.F.A.**Freak to Freak/Kook to Kook/One at a Time/ Ready.Fire!Aim.
Opportunity ALWAYS KnocksVFCJ*“Strategy”*Volunteer For Crappy Jobs
The greatest dangerfor most of usis not that our aim istoo highand we miss it,but that it istoo lowand we reach it.Michelangelo
Joe J. Jones 1942 – 2001 HE WOULDA DONE SOME REALLY COOL STUFF BUT … HIS BOSS WOULDN’T LET HIM!
“The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.”William James
