This document discusses how technology is transforming skill requirements but leadership skills remain constant. It provides quotes and perspectives on leadership, including that successful leadership requires education/training, experience over time, and adaptability. While higher education may not fully represent the real world, it can help increase opportunities. The document advocates preparing for an uncertain future by focusing on objectives, understanding disadvantages and strengths, and adapting quickly to circumstances while maintaining ethics.

1. Technology is Transforming Skill-set
Requirements
BUT
Leadership Skill-set Requirements
Remain Constant
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” ― Dr. Seuss
“There’s nothing new under the Sun. “ Solomon, The Teacher

2. “It’s taken me all my
life to learn what
not to play.”
- Dizzy-Gillespie
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3. Overview
• “Measure it with a micrometer” (Preparation):
– Successful leadership requires education, training, skills &
knowledge.
• “Mark it with a grease pencil” (Experience):
– Successful leadership mandates a continuously evolving track
record of experience, hard work, & networking.
• “Cut it with an Axe” (Success):
– Successful leadership mandates adaptability & flexibility;
– Legacy leadership acknowledges human frailty;
– Legendary leadership knows the difference between the two.

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5. Does a College Education/MBA Properly Represent
“the Real World”?
• My Teaching Experience: 85% of students believe:
– “The test *higher education+ itself is a cheat, since the program is unwinnable, and
thus cheating *beating the system+ is the only solution.”
~ Kirk
– “The point of the test is not to win, but to face fear and accept the possibility of
death.” *no job/living with your parents/college loan repayments+
~ Spock
– “It a square filler to ensure increased job opportunity & heightened pay &
benefits.”
~ Multiple Sources
– It’s a “Brave New World”
~ Huxley/”Miranda”
• Your thoughts?

6. How to Transform “Big Brother” into a Successful
Leadership Future
• Kobayashi Maru: defeat the “no-win” situation:
– Group Think 2012 - 2015?
• Social Media
– Group Speak 2012 – “Dead Man Walking”
• Established Media

7. “Mark it with a grease pencil”: are you
ready to jump into the “real world”?
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11. Cut It with an Axe…What Does This Mean?
• Know yourself, your opposition, & the environment within which interaction will occur.
• Keep attention of all resources & related action focused on achieving your strategic
objectives as promptly as possible.
• Understand, & guard against, the inherent disadvantage in every advantageous situation.
• Be moral & ethical in all things.
• Rely on your own preparation.
• Do not hope for success based on the opposition not preparing.
• Minimize emotional influences (hope, fear, greed).
• Ensure appropriate financing & provisioning of all activities (prior to and during).
• Avoid catastrophic mistakes by promptly adapting strategies & tactics to account for
immediate circumstances.
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