This presentation highlights the elements that make real leaders. It is argued that leaders inspire shared visions and are not afraid to embrace fundamental changes in the ways their teams are used to think and work. Leaders perceive crises as opportunities to make things better.

1. Leadership & Learning
LEADERSHIP & CHANGE
Mimi Michailidi

2. What have we
learned so
far?
Reality is a
patchwork of
different
perspectives

3. Half-full or Half-empty?
The
Pessimists
The
Optimists

4. It can take only
one person to
see a commonly
viewed reality in
a completely
different way --
This person saw
the invisible.

5. We need people who can detect the invisible.
These people will say where the REAL problem
is and be ready to BREAK the system into pieces
& put everything together into a whole NEW
REALITY.

6. We need people who can detect the invisible.
These people will see where REAL problem is
and be willing to BREAK the system into pieces &
put everything together into a whole NEW
REALITY.
They will be the LEADERS of change.

7. Leaders see Change*
*( …where change is least
visible)

8. Leaders see Change*
*(…where change is least
visible)

9. Leaders see Change*
*(…where change is least
visible)
*(…where others just see a
problem)

10. Leaders see Change*
*(…where change is least visible)
*(…where others just see a
problem)
*(…because they have learned to
let go)

11. Their secret:
"Unless you are prepared to give up something
valuable you will never be able to truly change at
all, because you'll be forever in the control of things
you can't give up."
— Andy Law
Creative Company

12. Leaders welcome change

13. …when others are
afraid of it

14. …when others are
afraid of it
• People who think that change is too
hard
• People who have settled for what
they have
• People who have tried and failed
• People who just don’t care

15. …when others are
afraid of it
"Change is hard because people
overestimate the value of what they
have—and underestimate the value of
what they may gain by giving that
up.“
— James Belasco and Ralph Stayer
Flight of the Buffalo (1994)

16. Leaders prepare change
"An important scientific innovation rarely
makes its way rapidly converting its opponents;
it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What
does happen is that its opponents gradually die
out and that the growing generation is
familiarized with the idea from the beginning."
—Max Planck
The Philosophy of
Physics, 1936

17. Leaders prepare
change…
within their teams
• By inspiring shared visions and
values
• By promoting teamwork
• By teaching them to be creative
• By enabling action
• By preparing them for the
unexpected

18. The Recipe of
Change?
• An uplifting vision
• People who care to
change
• Courage, courage, courage
• …And a crisis
to stimulate change

19. In every crisis lies the seed
of opportunity

20. Why is a crisis an opportunity for change ?
- It’s the only time when people are ready to
listen
- The costs have gone up so high that change looks
vital
- People are more productive in an environment of
competition
- The most creative ideas come up under pressure
- The crisis unites people behind a common goal

21. - Many people had to die
from cold before our
ancestors started using
animal fur as clothes.
- The biggest fights for
liberty, democracy, hum
an rights have been won
after bloody conflicts.
- Some companies need to
see their profits go
down before discussing
change.
- The Tillamook residents
in Oregon had to learn
from a state report
card for their terrible
teen pregnancy rates in
order to take action.

22. We all can be leaders of
change in our jobs, our
families, our communities…
As long as we have our minds
open and a vision to guide our
way