1. Andrew Kirievskiy
Level Three Leadership FINAL PROJECT
October 2008

2. Content: Introduction - My life story - My VABEs
This presentation is a benchmark of:
Where I am in 2008?
Where do I want to be in 5 years and why?
How would I get there?
It’s also a reminder about the major insight from the course.
Content:
- My life story
- My VABEs
My leadership principles
- Personal Charter
- Internal Life’s dream
- My personal model of leadership
- Personal model for managing change
- Major takeaways from the course

3. Some of My VABEs Need to add: - Being fair
My opinion is the most important for me
- Truth telling
Drop or rethink:
-Only future counts
-There is no place for enjoy and relax
-I don’t owe anything to anyone
When people get married they should stay married
and others
Keep:
All the other
Here’s some of my VABEs. It was very useful and interesting job to put this ideas on the paper. The first lesson was that many of these principles doesn’t make any sense even I strongly followed them in the past. For example, principle that only future counts. I used to put too much attention to the future, not putting much to the present and I suffered very often from that. Others examples include

4. Core leadership principles
Have values
Have a vision and goals
Be a professional (know the industry and develop communicational and teamwork skills)
Grow yourself and your people
Innovate and help innovate

5. My life story VABEs 1985 Good pupil 1987 Got to a bad company (gang)
1989 Back to the right track
USSR collapse
1994 Accepted to the best local university
1995 Met my future wife
2001 Got married
2002 Understood that there is no opportunity to grow professionally, had a bad downturn in career
2004 My daughter was born
2004 Career went up
2007 Darden
Here’s my Life story. I believe that it’s relevant in this presentation because it many of my VABEs stem from it. For example, till 12 I lived in USSR and this culture still has an impact on my set of VABEs. Another example would be that I was very independent from my parents, started my career without any help of them, and started my family very early and survived depending only on myself.
VABEs

6. Mission statement and vision
To make life of my family, company and society better by brining wealth and new technology into life.
VISION
Who do I want to be in
3 years: Get a promotion in an established company.
5 years: Develop career and get recognition for one big or two smaller projects .
10 years: Establish a successful career in a developed country. Be one of the best specialists in my profession and in industry. Have at least 3 kids.
20 years: Get a good education to my kids and made them good personalities. Run a business.

7. My strategy To implement my vision and achieve my goals I will:
Work hard
Keep clarifying my center
Keep changing my habits
Develop new VABEs and revise old ones
Learn
Keep my mind open
Look for new experience, including cross-cultural
Keep working on my Internal Dream
Say the truth, keep promises, be fair, respect others

8. How do I want to feel? Internal dream
Understanding this dream is an ongoing process.
At today point here’s the rank:
Passionate
Free
Respected
Strong
Light
Clear (grasp)

9. My personal model of leadership
- Clarifying the center
- Truth-telling
- Promise-keeping
- Fairness
- Respect
Task
- See what needs to be done
- Understand the underlying forces
- Have the courage to act
Organization
- Designing the right context:
culture
structure
other subsystems
Others
- Clarifying what others can contribute
- Supporting others
Team
- Team's dream and vision
- Shared leadership and work
- Team accountability
- Right people on right roles
- Stage of development

10. Personal model for managing change
Baseline Behavior
Outside information
No reaction on the reality
Hurt
or/and
Engagement
Enough discipline and will?
No. Denial.
Base Line behavior
Yes. Hard work
Change

11. MAJOR TAKEAWAYS FROM THE COURSE.
- Levels of leadership
- Leadership starts from yourself
- Emotional Intelligence at least as important as IQ
- Internal Dream
- Importance of Habits

12. conclusion Wrap-up Look at it in 5-years
A good instrument for systematic personal and professional development
Thank you