The Yin-Yang of Leadership March 26, 2013

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Central Concepts ● Clock Making – Not Time Telling! ● The “Genius of the AND” ● Preserve the Core/ Stimulate Progress ● Seek Alignment

Clock Making – Not Time Telling Concept # 1 Clock Making – Not Time Telling Organization Building

Concept # 2 The “Genius of the AND”

Preserve the Core AND Stimulate Progress Concept # 3 Preserve the Core AND Stimulate Progress Preserve the Core Drive for Progress

Seek Consistent Alignment Concept # 4 Seek Consistent Alignment Strategies: ● Big Hairy Audacious Goals ● Cult-Like Cultures ● Try Lots of Stuff and See What Works ● Home-Grown Management ● Good Enough Never Is

The Leaders Themselves Level 5 Leadership Professional Will Personal Humility Source: James C. Collins, From Good to Great

Professional Will ● Ambition for the Organization ● Driven to Produce Sustained Results – Make a Difference ● Share Credit ● Set Up Successors

Personal Humility ● Self-Effacing and Understated ● Take Responsibility ● Self-Effacing and Understated ● More Plow Horse than Show Horse

Focus on People Level 5 Level 4 First Who First What Then What Source: “Good to Great” Focus on People Level 5 Level 4 First Who First What Then What Then Who

Be Architects/Builders Your Organization

Master the Genius of “AND” Preserve our core purpose AND values

Stimulating Progress: Through Strategies and Practices Stimulating Progress: Enduring: ● Purpose ● Values Preserve the Core Adapting to Change: ● Global ● Technologic ● Economic ● Societal Stimulate Progress

The Visionary Test “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” F. Scott Fitzgerald

Business Leaders’ Challenge How do we preserve our core values AND vigorously stimulate change and adaptability? Preserve Core Purposes and Values Stimulate Progress through Strategies and Practices

Leaders Who Build Learning Adapting to Global, Technologic, Economic and Societal Shifts

Example Learning Engaged Learning Technology Facilitated Assessment Guided

Leadership 1. Builders of our organizations who: ● Select and develop talent ● Strive to create sustained organizational success ● Nurture the culture of the whole

Leadership 2. Ideological and progressive enablers who: Master the paradox of the “Genius of the AND”

Leadership 3. Facilitators who can: ● Embed strategies/practices that drive progress ● Empower people to achieve

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