First lecture in a course about people management and leadership. This is more context creation for the rest of the course and outlines trends etc

1. Leadership Development
Master Class
SESSION 1
CONTEXT CREATION
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2. Why context and issues
first?
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5. Popular view
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6. We all live in
Dell-Wal*Mart-eBay-Google World!
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7. 1999 Overtook Compaq as largest seller of PC’s in US
2004 Receive S250 million tax breaks from US Government
2005 Fortune Magazine –
Placed first as most admired company in US
2007 Attorney General investigations
class suits re financial performance
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8. $ 256 billion in sales
(first on the planet)
1 X IBM
1 X Dell
1 X Cisco $ 2 billion
1 X Microsoft
1 X HP
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9. • $7 to $8 billion runs through the
eBay platform every quarter
• Every hour eBay registers 3,000 to
4,000 new users
• 50 cents
• €198,000
• £1.25
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13. Sergey Brin – 33 years of age –
Net Worth $ 12.9 billion;
Larry Page – 33 years of age – Net
Worth $ 12.8 billion
29 – 30 years of age when Google
listed
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14. The Drivers of Change
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15. Technology
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16. • Alcatel and NEC test 3rd generation fibre optics
• Sends 10 trillion bits per second
via one single strand of fibre…

18. • 2006 – 47 million laptops shipped
• Aim to ship 50 million, $ 100 laptops
per year to developing countries
• Predictions are that by 2049, a $ 1000
computer will be built that could
outperform the computational
capability of the entire human species

19. Information
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20. The HeartMath Institute
In 1930 – the norm was one
telephone for every 50 workers…

21. Currently 2.7 billion searches
every month on Google…

22. Approximately
3000 books
published
every day…

23. Total text messages sent every
day exceeds the entire
population of the
planet…

24. Estimated that one weeks of
information in the New York
Times is more than one
individual would have
encountered in his entire life
time in the 18th century

25. Demographics
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26. Size does matter…

27. If you are one in a million in
China…
There are 1300 people just
like you
In India it is 1100

28. The 25 % of the population with
the highest IQ’s in China…

29. Is more than the entire
population of North America…
With India it is the top 28 %

30. This means they have
more honours kids
than the Americans
have kids…

31. China will soon become the
number one English
speaking country in the
world…

32. If you take every job in the US
today and ship it to China…
They will still have a labour
surplus

33. The Nett Result
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34. Collaboration
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36. Web 1.0 was about (electronic)
pages…
Web 2.0 is about people
(collaboration)

38. Wikipedia
Facebook
YouTube
SKYPE
Second Life
Firefox

40. MySpace (106 million users)
If it was a country it would
have been the 11th largest
in the world (somewhere
between Mexico and
Japan)

42. .. A fine day in 1995
1995

46. A PERSONAL STORY…

47. Immediacy
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49. 9/11
2004 Tsunami
2008 US Primaries
Olympics
2010 Soccer World Cup…

50. Unintended
Consequences
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52. Kryptonite ($ 10 million in ten
days)
American prisoner abuse scandal
It takes one disgruntled
employee…

53. Changing Workplace
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58. Changing Workforce
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59. US Department of Labour:
Average learner will have 10-14
jobs
By age 38

60. US Department of Labour:
One out of four employees today
have been employed for less than
a year

61. US Department of Labour:
More than one out of two workers
are working for a company they
have been working for less than
five years

62. Ex US Secretary of Education
Richard Riley:
The top 10 in demand jobs in 2010
would not have existed in 2004

63. Ex US Secretary of Education Richard Riley:
We are training people for jobs that
don’t exist
To use tools not yet developed
To solve problems we don’t even know
are problems yet

65. Boomers Gen X Gen Y
4500
4000
Births (in thousands)
3500
3000
2500
2000
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Birth Year

66. Changing
Organizational Format
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67. “Organizations will still be
critically important in the
world, but as
‘organizers,’ not
‘empoyers’! – Charles Handy
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68. In industrial organizations, the
hierarchy outperformed
natural organisation formats
in terms of coordination and control. The
introduction of the “Network Society”
changed that – Manuel Castells
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69. Off Shoring
manufacturing…
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71. Outsourcing
service…
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73. Outsourcing Products
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75. In sourcing
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79. Disparity
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81. A warm day on the
Highveld…

87. The Big Question…

88. Individual Level
• Who am I
• How do I create balance and
meaning
• Ho w do I express me
• How do I recreate myself

89. Organizational Level
• How do we stay relevant (compete
as world-class)
• What do we do to transform so as
to stay relevant (how do we
organize)
• Where do we find the capacity

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95. Discussion then Break
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96. Discussion then Break
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