1. My reflections and journey
About Leadership
My reflections and journey

2. Discussion topics Leadership vs Management
What I heard and learned in Cohort XII
What I did not hear enough
Rocky times ahead – the leadership toolbox
Change leadership in disruptive times

3. Leaders or Managers?
Management consists of controlling a group or a set of entities to accomplish a goal. Leadership refers to an individual's ability to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward organizational success. Influence and inspiration separate leaders from managers, not power and control.

4. What I heard and what I learned
Predominant Leadership styles
Transactional
Bureaucratic
Less about Transformational
What we value
Authenticity Leader who is genuine and true to what they believe in. They understand the purpose of leadership, they lead with very consistent values, and with their heart, as well as their head. They have courage, compassion, empathy– qualities like that– and they build long-term connected relationships. And they have the personal self discipline to deliver extraordinary results from their teams (Harvard Business Review)
Courage
Versatility
Consideration
Does the PS provide a safe space to be authentic?

5. Bureaucratic, transactional, transformational
Bureaucratic leadership is leadership based upon fixed official duties under a hierarchy of authority, applying a system of rules for management and decision-making.
Transactional leadership emphasizes organization, performance evaluation and rewards, and is task- and outcome-oriented.
Transformational leadership focuses on motivating and engaging followers with a vision of the future.
Transactional leadership works within set established goals and organizational boundaries, while a transformational approach challenges the status quo and is more future-oriented

6. What I did not hear enough
Leading in times of disruption, not feeling the urgency to “upgrade”
Why it matters?
Changing geo political, demographical and overall societal landscape
Need to have tools to cope with above
Disruptive times, labour market, technology, automation, threats, trade wars, immigration reforms, emerging markets, protectionism and much more
Do we need to replenish our leadership toolbox?

7. Leading through disruption
My Nortel -> software engineer-> design manager-> senior manager ( )
Mainstream internet started circa 1994 w/ first browser Mosaic
Ecommerce + data in the palm of your hand, mobile internet, digital is core business.
Nortel “Right angle turn” in 1999 – shift from dial tone telephony to internet
Mobilization of Nortel around Internet
Buy vs build – acquisitions and mergers (a fail) ** shift from transformational to transactional leadership”
Dot-com bubble bust – excessive speculation in use and adoption on internet

9. A leadership failure .. More than 17 rounds of Layoffs over 9 years
65,000 employees exited worldwide
13,000 in NCR
Massive and dehumanizing layoffs between (bulk layoffs 65k)
Survivor guilt, broken families, suicides, personal bankruptcies

10. The China factor.. New state of the art Beijing lab built in 2006
Attempt to gain market share in Asia Pac
NA staff trains China staff – and gets laid off
Personally lead reduction of 60% of Ottawa staff for Chinese workforce