The document discusses the implementation of Jim Collins' principles for breakthrough leadership, emphasizing the importance of humility, discipline, and cultural change in creating enduring greatness. It outlines key attributes of effective leadership, including candor, clarity, passion, and warmth, which contribute to executive presence. Additionally, it introduces the 'ladder of inference' concept, highlighting the mental pathways that can lead to misguided beliefs.

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5A Path to Breakthrough Leadership:
Implementing the work of Jim Collins in the workplace
Author: J.Ford
Creating Cultural Change

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Builds enduring greatness
through a paradoxical
blend of personal humility
and professional will.
Level 5

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Getting the right people and creating a
culture of discipline which consists of
Disciplined People
Disciplined Thought
Disciplined Action

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Candor: The appearance of honesty, through the willingness and skill
to constructively tell it like it is.
Clarity: The ability to tell your story in an intuitively clear and
compelling way.
Openness: The appearance of not prejudging, of being willing to
consider another's point of view.
Passion: The expression of commitment, motivation, and drive that
shows people you really believe in what you do.
Poise: The look of sophistication, conveying a background of education
and experience.
Self-confidence: The air of assurance, such that others know you have
the required strength and resolve.
Sincerity: The conviction of believing in and meaning what you say.
Thoughtfulness: The projection of thinking or of having thought
through something before responding.
Warmth: The appearance of being accessible to others and of being
interested in them.
Executive Presence

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If you perceive a situation as real, it is
real in its consequences.
- W.I. Thomas
Understanding ‘Appearance’ and “Point of Need’

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Candor
The appearance of honesty, through the
willingness and skill to constructively tell it like
it is.

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Clarity
The ability to tell your story in an intuitively clear and
compelling way. Brevity. Lead with the point.

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Openness
The appearance of not prejudging, of being willing
to consider another's point of view.

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Passion
The controlled expression of commitment,
motivation, and drive that shows people you really
believe in what you do.

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Poise
The unflustered, conveying of your background of
knowledge and experience. Keeping your head while
others lose theirs.
Not allowing yourself to be ‘baited’.

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Self-confidence
Project assurance, such that others know you have the
required strength and resolve.
Not bravado, nor arrogance.

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Sincerity
The conviction of believing in & meaning what you say.
Not ‘agreement’
Think ‘Chief of Staff’

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Thoughtfulness
The projection of thinking or of having thought through
something before responding.
The quite confidence that your view is of value
once presented. Not ‘your idea is best’

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Warmth
The appearance of being accessible to others and
of being interested in them.

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Integrate / Disintegrate

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HUMILITY + WILL=
LEVEL 5

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The Ladder of Inference
The ‘ladder of inference’ is defined
as “a common mental pathway of
increasing abstraction, often
leading to misguided beliefs.”

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Q & A
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