1. Becoming A Visionary Leader

2. THEMES Buy-in Canoe Theory Built To Last/Good To Great
Learning Organization
Leadership Challenge

3. Canoe Theory

4. CANOE THEORY Think of your organization as a long canoe.
The canoe has a destination.
Everyone in the canoe has a seat and a paddle.
Everyone is expected to use their paddle.
Those who won’t paddle have to get out of the canoe.
Those who prevent others from paddling have to re-adjust or get out of the canoe.
The canoe theory understands crisis.
The canoe theory says you have the right to be happy.

5. BUILT TO LAST
Preserve the Core
Stimulate Progress

6. PRESERVE THE CORE
CORE IDEOLOGY
VALUES

7. BUILT TO LAST (Collins, 1994)
BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOALS (BHAGs)
CULT-LIKE CULTURE
TRY A LOT OF STUFF AND KEEP WHAT WORKS
HOME-GROWN MANAGEMENT
GOOD ENOUGH NEVER IS

8. Vision Exercise

9. GOOD TO GREAT (Collins, 2001)
The Flywheel Concept:
Level 5 Leadership
First Who..Then What
Confront the Brutal Facts
The Hedgehog Concept
Culture of Discipline
Technology Accelerators

10. Core Ingredients of Learning Organizations
Mental Models – everyone sets aside old ways of thinking.
Personal Mastery - everyone becomes self-aware and open to others.
Systems Thinking – everyone learns how the whole organization works.
Shared Vision – everyone understands and agrees to a plan of action.
Team Learning – everyone works together to accomplish the plan.

11. The Bananas

12. Bananas in the Organization
Exercise
We tried that and it didn’t work.
We don’t do it that way here.
Mary is the only one who can do that so…..

13. Five Practices of Leadership (Kouzes and Posner, 1987)
Model the Way
Inspire a Shared Vision
Challenge the Process
Enable Others to Act
Encourage the Heart

14. Model the Way Guiding Principles Values Find Your Own Voice
Open-up Your Heart

15. Inspire a Shared Vision
See What ‘Can Be’
Have Passion
Enlist Others
Know Your People
Cannot command commitment only inspire it

16. Challenge the Process Be a ‘Pioneer’
Be willing to step into the unknown
Be an ‘Early Adopter’
Be a ‘Learner’

17. Enable Others to Act Build Trust Acid Test: ‘We’ versus ‘I’
Share Power
Teamwork
Mentor

18. Encourage the Heart Celebrate Achievements Rally ‘heart’ and ‘minds’?
Create a Spirit of Community
Caught ‘ya’s

19. Parable of the Bamboo
It takes patience and discipline to develop and empower people; in fact, it’s like growing bamboo. Once the seed is planted, you must water it daily for four years before the tree breaks ground – then it grows 60 feet in 90 days! Executives who nurture people can get similar results…How, you ask, can such rapid growth be possible? It results from the miles of roots that develop in those first four years. Preparing people to perform is the task of leadership.

20. Next Step?