DrupalCamp Atlanta 2022 - Effective Project Management
Ben Kuipers - Leadership with a big P
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Leadership with a big P
Ben Kuipers, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, The Hague
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Who is Ben Kuipers?
1. Groningen
2. Umeå
3. Novosibirsk
4. Rotterdam
5. Rijswijk
6. The Hague
• Performability
• Public Leadership Foundation
• Leiden Leadership Centre
• https://nl.linkedin.com/in/benskuipers
• Twitter: @benskuipers
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The “big” leader
• Person: the leader is the central figure
• Position: place in the hierarchy,
increasing power and influence, moving
up
• Process: the leader creates the picture,
the rest follows (top-down, planned)
• Purpose: being the biggest, the greatest
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Moving from “big” leaders with
a small p…
to “small” leaders with a big P!
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Purpose as a guiding principle
• It’s more
important that we
travel the road to
move forward,
than to reach a
destination
(agility)
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Purpose is about framing
“Revolutionizing the higher educational system”
“Diminishing slavery from the chocolate industry”
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Purpose as a result of dialogue
• Enabling
people to
continuously
take initiative
and contribute
(agility)
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The “small” leader
• Person: we all show leadership; it’s
about us, enable others
• Position: shared and distributed, take
initiative
• Process: we are creating the picture
together; dialogue
• Purpose: our guiding principle,
leadership for the common good
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What kind of leader are
you?
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