2. 2 12 March 2008
Pre-test
1. How many people think they have
been leaders in the past?
2. How many people think they are
leaders right now?
3. How many people would like to
become leaders in the future?
3. 3 12 March 2008
Have you ever
• Been a team captain?
• Done volunteer work?
• Held an elected office?
• Implemented a new idea?
• Served as a scout leader?
• Influenced others to take action?
• Organized an event or a trip?
• Spoken on behalf of others?
• Tried something you hadn’t done before?
• Helped connect people to one another?
4. 4 12 March 2008
Anyone Can Lead
•Leadership is not the same as management
•You don’t have to be the supervisor of people to lead them
•You can lead in any situation
School
Work
Family
Friends
Team
Organization
Group
5. 5 12 March 2008
Roles of Authentic Leaders
•Establish core
Principles
Values
Objectives
•Communicate to
Inspire
Align
Motivate
•Empower by
Listening
Trusting
Supporting
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Attributes of Authentic Leaders
•NOUNS
Trust, Truth, and Transparency
Caring, Sharing, and Daring
Integrity, Loyalty, and Courage
•VERBS
Respect, Recognize, and Reward
Empower, Empathize, and Encourage
Coach, Communicate, and Collaborate
•ADJECTIVES
Approachable, Fair, and Logical
Passionate, Persistent, and Persuasive
Calm, Creative, and Curious
7. 7 12 March 2008
Authentic Leaders DO NOT:
• Criticize, Blame, or Ridicule
• Demean, Embarrass, or Undermine
• Intimidate, Threaten, or Bully
• Lie, Cheat, or Exploit
• Badmouth, Belittle, or Backstab
Questions
• Have you ever had a coach, supervisor, or teacher like this?
• How did that make you feel?
• Do you think any of these behaviors are necessary?
8. 8 12 March 2008
Know Thyself
•What are your
Values
Principles
Beliefs
•What are your
Passions and Interests
Skills and Abilities
Weaknesses and Blind Spots
•How do you allocate your time to
Studies and Career
Friends and Family
Communities and Pastimes
9. 9 12 March 2008
Maintain Your True Self
•Act the same in all settings
Studies and Career
Friends and Family
Communities and Pastimes
•Don’t compartmentalize
•Let everyone know your beliefs, interests, and priorities
•Embody Competence, Commitment, and Compassion
10. 10 12 March 2008
Lead by Example
• Model desired behaviors
• Practice what you preach
• Put yourself in the shoes of others
• Prove what can actually be done
• Demonstrate expertise and credibility
• Keep in touch with reality
• Convey optimism
• Get your hands dirty
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Be Bold
• Take prudent risks
• Be willing to fail
• Tackle your fears and overcome them
• Take the initiative to start things
• Imagine, Invent, and Innovate
• Prototype, Pilot, and Perfect
• Rock the boat, stir the pot, and shake things up
• Expect the unexpected
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Follow Your True North
• Stick to your principles
• Act on your beliefs
• Don’t be swayed due to expediency or pressure
• Maintain healthy skepticism
• Avoid fads
• Ignore the prevailing wisdom
• Don’t follow the crowd or run with the herd
• Don’t always do it by the book
• Adjust over time based on experience
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Decide
• Use common sense
• Be assertive
• Make tough decisions
• Avoid paralysis by analysis
• Know when to declare success
• Admit failure, learn, and move on
• Embrace debate, set a deadline, decide, and proceed to implement
• Propose, Plan, and Produce
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Have a Bias for Action
•Set high standards for
Achievements
Results
Deliverables
•Follow up, inspect, and adjust
•Follow through and don’t let anything drop
•Avoid complacency, delay, and indecision
•Attack your own position before others do
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Communicate Relentlessly
• Write and speak convincingly, completely, and compellingly
• Use language concisely, correctly, and clearly
• Use multiple channels and vehicles
• Avoid jargon, corporate speak, and buzz words
• Ask questions, listen attentively, and respond forthrightly
• Return calls and reply to email in a timely manner
• Link, converse, and correspond with diverse people
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Reach Out and Engage
• Be generous with your time
• Be approachable, available, and accessible
• Avoid isolation
• Practice MBWA (Management By Walking Around)
• Seek input, encourage constructive suggestions, and follow through
• Pay attention
• Reach out, motivate, and inspire
17. 17 12 March 2008
Use Storytelling
• Motivate others to action
• Build trust in you
• Build trust in your organization
• Transmit your values
• Get others working together
• Share knowledge
• Tame the grapevine
• Create and share your vision
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Be Thirsty for Knowledge
• Curiosity won’t kill you
• Set a regular time for reading
• Make time to attend lectures, seminars, and conferences
• Listen to books on tape, podcasts, and broadcasts while multitasking
• Know what is going on in your organization, specialty, and field
• Participate in communities of practice and interest
• Know your stuff and become a respected thought leader
• Share your knowledge
• Try things out
• Allow time for thinking, imagining, and brainstorming
19. 19 12 March 2008
Practice Personal Knowledge Management
• Share – let others know what you have learned
• Innovate – take good ideas and improve on them
• Reuse – don’t reinvent the wheel
• Collaborate – take advantage of what others know
• Learn – don’t repeat the same mistakes
• Be aware of what you don’t know
• Hypothesize, Test, Analyze, Ponder, and Conclude
• Observe, Experiment, and Improve
20. 20 12 March 2008
Can you lead without deep knowledge?
• Some say good managers can manage anything; they can manage
without really knowing what they are trying to manage. It’s the
management skills that count.
• I argue strongly that the best job can be done when the manager has
a genuine and thorough knowledge and understanding of the work.
• I don’t see how managers can even understand what standards to
observe, what performance to require, and how to measure results
unless they understand in some detail the specific nature of the work
they are trying to supervise.
Source: David Packard in The HP Way, pages 154-155
21. 21 12 March 2008
Build Your Team
• Recognize others with similar strengths
• Seek out others with complementary skills and attributes
• Recruit, mentor, and promote wisely
• Learn from those you lead and those who lead you
• Don’t be threatened by others with more knowledge and skills
• Encourage team members to move on when they are ready
• Constantly add to your social network
• Set high expectations, but treat people decently
• Replace team members as required
22. 22 12 March 2008
Manage Your Time
• Always be on time
• Be organized
• Don’t short-change any element of your life
• Don’t be a workaholic
• Work efficiently during the normal work hours, and then go home
• Encourage others to do the same
• Delegate appropriately
• Don’t micromanage
• Budget your time
• Consistently use electronic tools such as calendar and task list
23. 23 12 March 2008
Focus
• Identify key priorities
• Stay on task
• Stick to a few key goals
• Don’t get distracted
• Follow a schedule
• Meet all commitments
• Expect the same from others
24. 24 12 March 2008
Check Your Ego
• Act unselfishly
• Let your deeds speak for you
• Share the credit for achievements
• Publicize the accomplishments of others
• Don’t worry about yourself
• Help anyone who asks
• Pay it forward – it will all come back to you
25. 25 12 March 2008
10 Commandments
Authentic Inauthentic
1. Be bold
2. Be upbeat
3. Know what’s going on
4. Tell stories
5. Act
6. Collaborate
7. Seek out ideas of others
8. Try new things
9. Remain calm
10. Plan
1. Be reluctant
2. Point out what’s wrong
3. Be ignorant
4. Recite dry facts
5. Wait
6. Go it alone
7. Know it all
8. Stick to the tried and true
9. Blow up
10. React
26. 26 12 March 2008
10 More Commandments
Authentic Inauthentic
11. Admit mistakes
12. Speak spontaneously
13. Use direct language
14. Communicate openly
15. Be visible and accessible
16. Be courageous
17. Tell the truth
18. Take a chance and go for it
19. Think for yourself
20. Treat others fairly
11. Spin, make excuses, and pass blame
12. Repeat the usual message
13. Use clichés
14. Withhold information
15. Hide behind closed doors
16. Be afraid to fail
17. Obscure, obstruct, and obfuscate
18. Play it safe and delay
19. Always go by the book
20. Exploit others
27. 27 12 March 2008
The Wisdom of Hewlett and Packard
Dave Packard: Create an environment where people
• Have a chance to do their best
• Realize their potential
• Are recognized for their achievements
• Take initiative in return for individual freedom
• Work as a team for a common purpose
Bill Hewlett: Cardinal points of his moral compass
1. Knowledge
2. Modesty
3. Justice
4. Hard Work
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Corporate Objectives
1. Profit: To recognize that profit is the best single measure
of our contribution to society and the ultimate source of
our corporate strength. We should attempt to achieve
the maximum possible profit consistent with our other
objectives.
2. Customers: To strive for continual improvement in the
quality, usefulness, and value of the products and
services we offer our customers.
3. Field of Interest: To concentrate our efforts, continually
seeking new opportunities for growth but limiting our
involvement to fields in which we have capability and
can make a contribution.
4. Growth: To emphasize growth as a measure of strength
and a requirement for survival.
29. 29 12 March 2008
Corporate Objectives (continued)
5. Employees: To provide employment opportunities for HP
people that include the opportunity to share in the
company's success, which they help make possible. To
provide for them job security based on performance, and
to provide the opportunity for personal satisfaction that
comes from a sense of accomplishment in their work.
6. Organization: To maintain an organizational environment
that fosters individual motivation, initiative and creativity,
and a wide latitude of freedom in working toward
established objectives and goals.
7. Citizenship: To meet the obligations of good citizenship
by making contributions to the community and to the
institutions in our society which generate the environment
in which we operate.
30. 30 12 March 2008
Bill George on Authentic Leadership
Create your own Personal Leadership Development Plan based on:
1. Knowing your authentic self
2. Defining your values and leadership principles
3. Understanding your motivations
4. Building your support team
5. Staying grounded by integrating all aspects of your life
Authentic leaders demonstrate these five traits:
1. Pursuing their purpose with passion
2. Practicing solid values
3. Leading with their hearts as well as their heads
4. Establishing connected relationships
5. Demonstrating self-discipline Source
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Examples 1-5 from Bill George
• Purpose: We ndy Ko pp started Teach For America, the most successful
secondary educational program of the past 25 years.
• Values: Thad Alle n built the Coast Guard around values. When
Hurricane Katrina hit, officials at all levels of government argued about
who was responsible while the Coast Guard simply swung into action,
saving the lives of stranded victims.
• Leading with heart: Marilyn Carlso n Ne lso n changed Carlson
Companies from decades of top-down rule to expressing empathy for
her employees and compassion for her customers.
• Relationships: A. G. Lafle y, CEO of Procter & Gamble, took over an
organization in turmoil. On a visit to a remote office, he looked a young
employee in the eye and said, "The work you are doing is vital to the
future of P&G."
• Self-discipline: Warre n Buffe tt became the wealthiest man in the world
by avoiding debt and high-risk investments, concentrating on value
companies and long-term positions. Buffett has been a model of self-
discipline – also reflected in his personal life. Source
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Examples 6-8: World Leaders
•Mohandas Gandhi
•Martin Luther King Jr.
•Nelson Mandela
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Examples 9-10: Presidential Candidates
• "The two leading candidates in 2008, Jo hn McCain and Barack O bam a,
stood out precisely because they are authentic.
• McCain, who experienced his crucible as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam,
tells it like it is. He is not afraid to go against popular positions or the
Republican hierarchy, including the current president. As he has assumed
front-runner status for the nomination, the hard-liners in the Republican
Party have tried to bring him in line, but he has steadfastly refused.
• O bam a's authenticity is precisely what makes him so appealing to such a
wide range of voters. He seems "good in his skin," and is able to rise
above the negative attacks. His message of hope and change, backed up
by specific programs that seem logical to most people, is inspiring a lot of
Americans to get engaged in the political process. For all the talk that he
would wither under the pressure, he seems to get stronger and more
confident as he goes." Source: Bill
George
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Examples 18-19: Michigan State
•Tom Izzo
•Mark Dantonio
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My Leadership Journey
• Boy Scouts
• Washington University
• Saint Louis University
• DEC
• Compaq
• HP
• Deloitte
• Conferences
• Publications
• Communities
• Coaching
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Ten Keys to Remember
1. Follow your passions – play to your strengths
2. Treat others with respect – and earn theirs
3. Never give up – keep on striving
4. Be true to your word – do what you say you will
5. Stay positive – have fun in what you do
6. Expect a lot of yourself – and of others
7. Challenge conventional wisdom – think for yourself
8. Ask not what others can do for you – ask what you can do for them
9. Leave the world a better place – make a contribution
10. Put a little love into everything you do – it is always possible
40. 40 12 March 2008
How to remember the keys: PICKLES
• Passion
• Integrity
• Communication
• Knowledge
• Love
• Empowerment
• Service
Bob Farrell
41. 41 12 March 2008
Final Exam
1. What would the world be like if everyone adopted these principles?
2. How would you like to work for an authentic leader?
3. Are you willing to be an authentic leader?
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