1. 63rd WORLD NEWSPAPER CONGRESS
Session: Leadership
Title: Leadership – eternal truths and new challenges
Speaker: Jo Owen
Mark your calendar
64th WORLD NEWSPAPER CONGRESS
19th WORLD EDITORS FORUM
Vienna, Reed Messe Wien
www.wan-ifra.org/kiev2012

2. 63rd World Newspaper Congress
Leadership: eternal truths and new
challenges
Jo Owen

3. Taking people where they would not have got
by themselves
Are you leading or are you managing a
legacy?
Leadership is about performance, not position

4. Expectations of what makes a good
leader change by level
Leaders in the Recent graduates/
Top leaders middle emerging leaders
Ability to motivate Hard work
Vision others
Ability to motivate Decisiveness Proactivity
others
Industry experience Intelligence
Decisiveness
Ability to handle Networking ability Reliability
crises
Honesty and Delegation Ambition
integrity

5. Perceived priorities for what makes a good
leader change across the channel
Anglo-Saxon expectations of French expectations of leaders
leaders
Ability to handle crises
Vision
Network strength
Ability to motivate others
Decisiveness Ability to motivate others
Ability to handle crises Decisiveness
Honesty and integrity Political skills

6. Factor UK Japan Traditional societies France
Decision Pragmatic, well Consensual Communal, open Top down, well thought
processes communicated through
Hierarchy Call boss by first Respect based language Age and sex Tu, vous, title depending
name on relationship
Networks Based on profession Based on keiretsu Family based Academic background
Education Liberal arts Maths, science, Informal, oral, Maths and science
focus engineering generalists
Key City, services, media. Engineering, Subsistence Engineering, luxury
industries manufacturing goods
Values Ethics, spirit of the Honesty and trust, Respect for the Honesty, letter of the
law outside law community law
Delegation Responsibility exceeds Collective responsibility Compartmentalisation Responsibility requires
authority authority
Feedback Indirect, often positive Avoided No Direct, often negative:
teach
Body Hidden; appears Formality, ritual Open Open and direct
language devious
Openness Wimbledonisation of Closed Binary Closed: revolution not
London evolution
Law Common law, flexible Avoid using law Tradition, personal Roman law; highly
prescriptive
Thinking Pragmatic Practical Tradition Theoretical, based on
principles
Meetings Make decisions Confirm decisions Social Air views, defend
position,

8. Eternal lessons of leading

14. Leading with values

15. Courage
Contribution
Responsibility

17. y is
n e
u r
r jo
ou t
r y yi
v e jo
t e en
ha
W