The Leadership Imperative Sam Swaminathan

Change There was no change in global GDP for 1000 years, except during the last 100 years. Innovation came from the village banker, barber, bishop, blacksmith, and butcher. Suddenly, the density of connections has grown and so the range of ideas has grown too.

There was no change in global GDP for 1000 years, except during the last 100 years.

Innovation came from the village banker, barber, bishop, blacksmith, and butcher.

Suddenly, the density of connections has grown and so the range of ideas has grown too.

The Current Realities Globalization has blown open protected markets The Internet has made mortar feel like millstones A Cambrian explosion of new competitive life forms

Globalization has blown open protected markets

The Internet has made mortar feel like millstones

A Cambrian explosion of new competitive life forms

The distance between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish is narrowing relentlessly. Dreams and reality were never so near! Francis Fukuyama is dead. Long live Fukuyama. We now possess the power to interrupt history. Don’t let the future catch you flat-footed. The Current Realities

The distance between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish is narrowing relentlessly. Dreams and reality were never so near!

Francis Fukuyama is dead. Long live Fukuyama. We now possess the power to interrupt history. Don’t let the future catch you flat-footed.

Schumpeter’s gales of creative destruction have become a hundred thousand hurricanes. Collapse of Communism New World Order Birth of Internet New Economic Order The Current Realities

Schumpeter’s gales of creative destruction have become a hundred thousand hurricanes.

Collapse of Communism New World Order

Birth of Internet New Economic Order

Japan’s Imperialism The gift to the Sun Goddess Sinshu No Jingi

The gift to the Sun Goddess

Japan’s Imperialism The gift to the Sun Goddess Sinshu No Jingi Muscle Money Mind

The gift to the Sun Goddess

Organizational Evolution Muscle Money Mind Agricultural Age Industrial Age Information Age

Money Vs Mind T he fact that we were entering the information economy was announced in 1991, when capital spending on information technology [$112 B] surpassed capital spending on production technology [$107 B] in the USA.

T he fact that we were entering the information economy was announced in 1991, when capital spending on information technology [$112 B] surpassed capital spending on production technology [$107 B] in the USA.

Money Vs Mind Money is subtractive Mind is additive Mind = Knowledge

Money is subtractive

Mind is additive

Mind = Knowledge

Intellectual Capital “ Tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.” Abraham Lincoln

“ Tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.”

Abraham Lincoln

“ We can’t wait for evolution: three million years to grow a lung, another twenty to learn to walk upright, sixty more to grasp a spear, ten more to light a fire.” – Peter Senge We need to speed corporate evolution. Internet Time

“ We can’t wait for evolution: three million years to grow a lung, another twenty to learn to walk upright, sixty more to grasp a spear, ten more to light a fire.” – Peter Senge

We need to speed corporate evolution.

The donning of computer clothing by modern man is no less significant then the donning of outer clothing by the Paleolithic – Timothy Leary knowledge work

Knowledge Work How good are you? Who will vouch for it?

How good are you?

Who will vouch for it?

We live in… THE AGE OF AMBIGUITY The more complex the environment becomes, the more ambiguous life becomes.

THE AGE OF AMBIGUITY

The more complex the environment becomes, the more ambiguous life becomes.

Who do you learn from? How many biographies did you read in the last 3m, 6m, 9m, 12m? Who is your mentor? Do you have one?

How many biographies did you read in the last 3m, 6m, 9m, 12m?

Who is your mentor?

Do you have one?

Key Drivers Passion & Purpose Not Political or Positional Power

Passion & Purpose

The Network Is The Future

DC 3

Best Quality Leaders Enormous energy and passion for the job – a real leader – sees it operationally – not as a ‘staffy’. Ability to execute, energize and mobilize the organization around the benefits of action – not a bureaucrat. Understands it is all about customers and upping the bottom line.

Enormous energy and passion for the job – a real leader – sees it operationally – not as a ‘staffy’.

Ability to execute, energize and mobilize the organization around the benefits of action – not a bureaucrat.

Understands it is all about customers and upping the bottom line.

Has a very good grasp of quality, which is equal to, or bettered by, strong financial background and capability. Has a real edge to deliver bottom line results and not just technical solutions. Best Quality Leaders

Has a very good grasp of quality, which is equal to, or bettered by, strong financial background and capability.

Has a real edge to deliver bottom line results and not just technical solutions.

Key Leadership Ingredients “ E 4 ”= Energy Energizer Edge Execution Values and Performance Critical to Success

Energy

Energizer

Edge

Execution

“ E 4 ” Energy = Enormous Personal Energy - Strong Bias for Action Key Leadership Ingredients

“ E 4 ” Energizer = Ability to Motivate and Energize Others ... Infectious Enthusiasm to Max Organization Potential Key Leadership Ingredients

“ E 4 ” Edge = Competitive Spirit ... Instinctive Drive for Speed/Impact ... Strong Convictions and Courageous Advocacy Key Leadership Ingredients

“ E 4 ” Execution = Deliver Results Key Leadership Ingredients

“ E 4 ”= Energy Energizer Edge Execution = Passion Key Leadership Ingredients

Energy

Energizer

Edge

Execution

7 STEPS TO LIFELONG LEARNING Write your resume today. Give it to a headhunter, and find out what you may be worth in the talent market. Compare this with what you are being paid today. If you are getting more, worry yourself to death. If you are getting less, feel happy – you are safe. After 6 months, write your resume again. If both resumes are similar, know that you will soon be history.

Write your resume today.

Give it to a headhunter, and find out what you may be worth in the talent market.

Compare this with what you are being paid today.

If you are getting more, worry yourself to death.

If you are getting less, feel happy – you are safe.

After 6 months, write your resume again.

If both resumes are similar, know that you will soon be history.

DISTINCTIFY… OR DIE! “ If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself, you won’t get noticed and that increasingly means you won’t get paid much, either.” — Michael Goldhaber, Wired

“ If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself, you won’t get noticed and that increasingly means you won’t get paid much, either.” — Michael Goldhaber, Wired

ARE YOU… Committed Determined to make a difference Focused Passionate Irrational about your life’s project Ahead of your time / Paradigm buster Impatient Action Driven ?

Committed

Determined to make a difference

Focused

Passionate

Irrational about your life’s project

Ahead of your time / Paradigm buster

Impatient

Action Driven

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John.F.Kennedy Escape from your concepts prison

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John.F.Kennedy

Seize the Opportunity offered to you, and run with it. Hope to live till you are five hundred! And, finally… LEAVE A LEGACY!!

Seize the Opportunity offered to you, and run with it. Hope to live till you are five hundred!

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