This document discusses elements of leadership. It covers envisioning a positive vision for the future, exploring strategies and testing ideas, engaging and energizing teams, enabling teams to achieve goals, and executing on the vision. It provides tools for leaders such as focusing on a strategic intent, using stories to show what's possible, embracing uncertainty through testing and innovation, praising teams more than criticizing, and constantly improving through a 1% rule. The overall message is that strong leadership is needed to move an organization beyond limits from having a vision to making it a reality.

1. Audiences
1
Leading Beyond Limits!
Lars Sudmann
info@lars-sudmann.com
@larssudmann
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2. Flickr/Andy_Magee

3. Audiences
„Led“Leader
Leadership
Lecturer
Organizational
Advisor

4. “Only three things happen
naturally in organisaBons:
FricBon, confusion, and
underperformance;
Everything else requires
leadership.”
Peter Drucker

5. Leadership: GeMng something
from vision to reality with focus
on the people involved
@larssudmann

6. Elements of
Leadership

8. @larssudmann
www.lars-sudmann.com

9. Envision

10. “A leader is someone
who knows the way,
goes the way and
shows the way”
John C. Maxwell

11. “A leader is someone
who knows the way,
goes the way and
shows the way”

12. “I have a
nightmare”

13. Paint a positive
vision of the future

14. “Seeing the posiBve in a
negaBve situaBon isn’t
naïve…
…it’s leadership!”
Anonymous

15. “I have a plan”

16. ://www.flickr.com/photos/bernhardtsoccer
://www.flickr.com/photos/bernhardtsoccer

17. #Tool
Strategic Intent

18. If we do nothing else during tomorrow’s mission,
we must ________________________.
The single, most-important thing that we must
do tomorrow is _____________________.

19. The single, most-important thing that we must
focus on is _____________________.

20. #Tool
Show what is
possible
(with stories)

22. Pixar Model
Once upon a Bme______________________
Every day_____________________________
One day____________________________
Because of that_______________________
Because of that_______________________
UnBl finally__________________________

23. Envision
Explore

24. 1Short question – is the
total population of
Bangladesh greater
than 35 million?
a) Yes
b) No

25. 2
Please give an estimate of the
total population of Bangladesh:
Total population (in million):
_____________

27. “The Spaghetti principle”!

28. Long
operating
history!
Static
Environment!
Dynamic
Environment!
Short
operating
history!
Predict & Plan!!
(No Spaghetti)!
Cf. E. Ries, Lean Startup

30. Long
operating
history!
Static
Environment!
Dynamic
Environment!
Short
operating
history!
Predict & Plan!!
(No Spaghetti)!
Cf. E. Ries, Lean Startup
?!

31. “If the path before you is clear
you’re probably on somebody
else’s.”
Joseph Campbell

32. Long
operating
history!
Static
Environment!
Dynamic
Environment!
Short
operating
history!
Predict & Plan!!
(No Spaghetti)!
Test & Innovate!!
(Spaghetti it)!
Cf. E. Ries, Lean Startup

34. Engage
Envision
Explore

39. I have this
great idea
People like it!
Ok, let’s do it

42. “Say no to a
1000 things.”
Steve Jobs

43. #Tool:
One in, one out

44. Engage Enable
Envision
Explore

45. Teambuilding

46. How do you
like to be led?

47. #Tool
Be a coach

48. “What could
you do?”

49. The
Nespresso
question

51. “What could
you do?”
“What else?”

52. Classic
Directional
Mutual
Exploration
N-K
K
K N-K
Leader
Led
New
Insights

53. Engage Enable
Energize
Envision
Explore

54. www.flickr.com/SeanMacEntee

55. “On days you have not
been fired…
…you can think of
yourself as having been
praised.” Entrepreneur

56. https://
5 : 1
hbr.org/2013/03/the-ideal-praise-to-criticism/

57. #Tool
Praise 2+ : CriBcism 1

58. Engage Enable
Energize
Envision Execute
Explore

61. #Tool:
Constant
Improvement:
1% rule

62. Engage Enable
Energize
Envision Execute
Explore

63. Engage Enable
Energize
Execute
5! 5!
5!
5!5!
5!
0!
Envision
Explore

64. Engage Enable
Energize
Execute
5! 5!
5!
5!5!
5!
0!
5!
5!
“The Visionary”
Envision
Explore

65. Engage Enable
Energize
Execute
5! 5!
5!
5!5!
5!
0!
“The Executer”
Envision
Explore

66. An average meeting

67. Engage Enable
Energize
Execute
5! 5!
5!
5!5!
5!
0!
5! 5!
Envision
Explore

68. Audiences
1
Leading Beyond
Limits!
Lars Sudmann
info@lars-sudmann.com
@larssudmann
!