1. Journey in Leadership
USC Rossier
School of Education

2. Leadership
Ahead
Journey in Leadership
USC Rossier
School of Education

3. 5 Qualities of a Leader
Never let circumstances dictate the outcome - Learn to respond
Persistent - Stick to it
Realistic inventory of talents and abilities - Use strengths
Resilient - Failure is an opportunity to grow
Passionate - Faithful, love, live with purpose, do not fear rejection

4. Stimulate Self-directed actions Determine Focus and Direction
Flight of the Buffalo
Remove Obstacles
Develop Ownership
Stimulate Self-directed actions
Determine Focus and Direction

5. Management & Leadership
Concerned with Now
Claims authority by position
Emphasizes skills and tasks
Seeks to maintain and protect the status quo
Expects compliance
Concerned with Long Term
Speaks to the Heart
Emphasizes ideas and Habits
Seeks change, Innovation, Risk taking, Creative tension
Expects commitment & Loyalty to shared principles

6. Understanding
Organizations
Next Exit
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7. Bolman and Deal’s 4 Frames
Power base
Conflict
Coalitions
Negotiation
Meaning
Beliefs
Culture
Ceremonies
Needs
Skills
Feelings
Interpersonal
Goals
Tasks
Technology
Rules
Structural
Human Resource
Political
Symbolic

8. Social & Political
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9. Building a Constituency
What will you do for them?
Share your vision & passion
Get out amongst the people
Recognize people by their names
Discover who your constituents might be
Be a good listener
Be a good communicator
Review progress with honest feedback

10. Mandela on Leadership
Courage is not the absence of fear it is inspiring others to move beyond it Lead from the front but don’t leave your base behind Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front Know your enemy and learn about his favorite sport Keep your friends close and your rivals even closer Appearances matter remember to smile Nothing is black or white Quitting is leading too

11. Change
Next Exit
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12. Choices against Change
Don’t Change
Change
Do not make change for change sake

13. Road Rules for Change Integrity, Wisdom and Selflessness
Build a team and empower them
Concentrate on important issues
Timing: Know when to engage conflict
Learn the history of the issue
Plan strategically: Work through questions
Use committees effectively
Use a formal system to carry out activities
Follow through to push the decision flow
Glance backward to move forward
Communicate

14. CEOs
Next Exit
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15. Leadership Dimensions
Vision
Educator
Change Agent
Entrepreneur
Politician

16. When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength
in the service of my vision,
then it becomes
less and less important
whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde

17. Politics of Diversity Strategies to maintain Resiliency
Develop Coalitions
Map the
political terrain
Anticipate resistance
Create PR campaigns
Use data to neutralize politics
Capitalize on controversy
Kezar, A. Understanding leadership strategies for addressing the politics of diversity

18. “Just because something is outside of awareness doesn’t mean
it is outside of control .”
“Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that
we can change
our first impressions
we can alter the way we thin-slice
by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.”
Malcolm Gladwell
Gladwell
Blink: The power of thinking without thinking

19. Accountability
Next Exit
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20. Responsibility
Empowerment
Accountability
Clear Agreements

21. New Work: Learning Organizations
Vision
Current Reality
Creating Tension

22. New Roles: Learning Organizations
Design ideas of Purpose, Vision, & Core Values
Policies, strategies, structures
Leader as Designer
Gain insightful views of reality
Restructure views of reality
View events, patterns, systems
Leader as Teacher
It is a matter of attitude
Servant leadership
Leader as Steward

23. New Skills: Learning Organizations
Surfacing & challenging mental models
Engaging in Systems Thinking
Building Shared Vision
Life long process that is needed to permeate the entire organization

24. Ethics
Next Exit
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25. Right v. Wrong = Moral Temptations Right v. Right = Ethical Dilemmas
Ethical Leadership
Right v. Wrong = Moral Temptations Right v. Right = Ethical Dilemmas
RIGHT ? RIGHT?

26. Ethical Dilemma Paradigms
Truth v Loyalty
Individual v. Community
Short-term v Long-term
Justice v Mercy

27. Ethical Decision Making
Principle
Philosophical Base
Maxim
Ends-based Thinking
Utilitarianism
Do whatever produces the greatest good for the greatest number
Rule-based
Thinking
Categorical imperative
Follow only the principle that you want everyone else to follow
Care-based
Reversibility
Do to others what you would like them to do to you

28. Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?”
Expediency asks the question,
“Is it politic?”
Vanity asks the question,
“Is it popular?”
But CONSCIENCE asks the question,
“Is it right?”
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that IT IS RIGHT.
Martin Luther King Jr.