CHANGE MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP - LESSONS FROM SHAKESPEARE AND RESEARCH ON LEADERSHIP Carin Eriksson Lindvall, Associate Professor, Director of Teaching and Learning, Uppsala University.

People don’t trust you even if you have formal authority over them. They need to see you do things that earn their respect and trust before you can rely on them. Linda A Hill Being a manager

It’s all about: Choices, Change, Uncertainty and People, people, people Accept that you have to live with change uncertainty and people Many managers report to me: 'I never knew being a leader would be so painful’, because of the changes in the organization, role tranformations, role expectations and role conflicts. Ref: Engwall, L. and Eriksson Lindvall, Carin (2012); Leaders of Modern Universities: Primi Inter Pares or Chief Executive Officers? In Tengblad, S. The work of Managers, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

What do I want? How do I get satisfaction from work? How do I ”take” my role as a leader? How do I handle people’s expectations better? How do I better understand behavior and emotions in my work group? How do I handle it? LESSONS FROM THERAPY

The self is not something ready – made but something in continuous formation through choices of action” (John Dewey (1916), 1997, Democracy and Education, An introduction to the Philosophy of Education ) Choices

To manage others one must first manage one’s self. (Peter Drucker, 1999, Managing Oneself)

I know thee not, old man, fall to thy prayers… Presume not that I am the thing I was, For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn´d away my former self, So will those that kept me company…”

Lessons from Shakespeare’s dark night of the soul Visible leadership Be clear and keep private things private Find yourself. Remember your basic values Listen to your people Have someone to talk to Find inspiration and communicate

The Speech on St Crispian’s Day If we are marked to die, we are enough To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars. And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.' For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother;