The document discusses 21st century leadership and the changing realities of leadership in a networked, digital world. It notes that the rise of smartphones, social media, and always-on connectivity represents a potential shift in how society and organizations operate. Key aspects of 21st century leadership discussed include being open, transparent, collaborating across boundaries, understanding new forms of power based on relevance rather than hierarchy, and leading organizations to thrive rather than just survive in this new reality.

1. Solace South East
21st Century Leadership?

2. Who are we?
• Researchers exploring leadership in the 21st
Century

3. What is the New
Reality?
• Is there a new reality?
• At some point we move from a post-
industrial economy to something else -
What is it?
• How do we know when it’s a social shift
and not just incremental change?

4. • We think there is evidence of social shift

5. The World Wide Web was born with the
mosaic browser in 1993
Children born the same year are now 19

6. • This would be someone else’s problem if
not for the fact we are seeing increases in
all demographics
• 18-24 years olds are only 12% of the
active online audience

7. OFCOM Technology Tracker 2010 data (published 2011)

8. http://ukuncut.org.uk/

11. Next Generation Use
• The UK saw the highest growth in smartphone take-up in the past year with a 70 per cent
rise in subscriber numbers between January 2009 and January 2010.
• People in the UK are using their mobile phones for social networking more than in other
countries
• Data volumes over mobile networks increased by 240 per cent in 2009.
• Nearly a quarter of adults (23 per cent) accessed content or sent emails on their mobile
phones. Among 15-24s this rises to 45 per cent.
• UK consumers who have internet-enabled phones are also spending almost as much time
surfing the net on their mobiles (1.3 hours per month) as they do texting (1.5 hours per
month).
• Facebook accounted for almost half (45 per cent) of total time spent online on mobiles in
December 2009

12. Is this the network
society?
• Networks as the distinguishing feature
• Blurred boundaries
• Open by default
• Power is not hierarchical
• Relevance is earned

13. • This is not just about technology

14. An illustration – here
and now

15. A Fundamental Tension
Containment
Energy
Where is the balance in your organisation?

16. What saved the bank?
• The ability to observe the world from
30,000ft and analyse at 3 inches
• The ability to inspire and enable followers
• Being there when it counts – willing to
stand up and be counted
• Pathological collaboration with peers to
solve problems and get things done

17. What might it mean to
lead in this new reality?
• To be open and transparent
• To think in public
• To have to understand power in a new way

18. Being open
• Accepting the new ‘public-ness’
• Recalibrate your privacy machine

19. Being open
• Its not showing the results - its sharing the
thought process
• And being open to ideas

20. New forms of power
• Understand your relevance
• Find your connectors - be a connector
• Blur the boundaries
• In networks it is the actions that show up

21. Where are you

22. Where do you want to
be?
• Is your ambition to survive or to thrive?
• Do you feel the same pressure to change?
• Is your organisation changing?

23. Practising 21st Century Leadership -
An Action Research Approach to
Leadership Development

24. Get in touch
Martin Saville
martin.saville@mayvin.co.uk
+44 (0)7968 719940
www.mayvin.co.uk
James Traeger
james.traeger@mayvin.co.uk
+44 (0)7778 647712
www.mayvin.co.uk
Catherine Howe
catherine.howe@public-i.info
@curiousc
www.public-i.info
blog.mayvin.co.uk

25. Let’s Play!
• Round One – Locate our Connectors:
• Find out everyone in the room who:
• You have spoken a few words with them – black & white dot
• You have had a conversation – pink dot
• You know them well enough to lend them money and know
you’d get it back – red dot
• Be honest about it – we need a good picture of our
connectivity
• What are the implications and possibilities of the stickers for us?