Leadership 2.0 creating value through people in the Collaboration Era. Maybe it`s time to leave your Confort Zone

1. Maybe it's time to
leave your
“comfort zone”
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2. A conversation about ...
“The new value creation
models in the Collaboration
Era, the future of leadership
and the need to build
people centric
organizations, where
leadership and innovation
is everyone's job”
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3. The Collaboration Era
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“Perhaps for the first time in history, humankind has the
capacity to create more information than anyone can
absorb, to foster greater interdependency than anyone can
manage, and to accelerate change faster than anyone’s
ability to keep pace”
Peter M. Senge
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4. New things are happening around
you...
We are heading towards a new
economic order
Significant demographic
changes are taking place
New value creation models are
emerging
Transparency is key to the future
of our organizations
Digital Natives are arriving in the
workplace
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5. It's time to change ...
“The current management is a
mature discipline and, as such,
incapable of solving the new
challenges that will confront the
organizations in the new
Millennium “
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6. The changes required are not so
obvious...
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These changes are especially
hard to anticipate if you have
already reached your
“comfort zone”, and you
believe that management is
just a tool for managing the
“statu quo”.
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7. Maybe you should ask ...
How do these changes impact my
customers?
What will be their impact on my
products and services
competitiveness?
How does all this affect me
personally?
How will these changes affect my
future employability?
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8. ?
Where
to begin
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9. Jump into the lifeboat!
Value creation in the
Collaboration Era requires
imagination, creativity
and passion. It's about
creating new people centric
organizations, where
leadership and innovation is
everyone's job.
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10. Begin with your personal agenda
If you do not have a personal agenda, is
highly probable that you are part of
somebody else's agenda
You must have your own vision about the
the future of leadership and a personal
action plan to develop yourself, start now
introducing some leadership 2.0
practices in your daily routine as a
manager.
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11. Challenge the “statu quo”
Questioned the old ways of working that only
had meaning in the past and arose to solve a
problem that no longer is relevant to the
organization.
Build capacity for experimentation with low
risk so that you can launch new innovation
initiatives and interact with the new reality.
Gives a chance to new ideas without
crippling the ability of the organization to get
their results on a daily basis.
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12. Interact with the new reality
What is key is not access to the
information, but access to the
conversations, taking active part in
them.
These are the conversations that will
allow us to develop new capabilities as
leaders, to anticipate the future needs of
our customers and to atract the new
digital talent required by our
organizations.
Leadership = Conversations
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13. Foster an innovation culture
A culture that questions the quot;Status
quoquot; and face challenges in unusual
ways.
Find new ways to deal with future
challenges, exploring new avenues and
avoiding the easy answers to problems.
Create people centric and flexible
organizations, where leadership and
innovation is everyone's job.
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14. Search for analogies and best
practices in different environments
Explore your competition's solutions and
best practices.
Create your own innovation system, which
will allow you to launch innovation
initiatives with limited resources.
Give the new ideas a chance without
risking your organization's ability to
deliver daily results.
www.infonomia.com
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15. Getting Real
Test your ideas in a real environment,
with real customers and real markets.
Don't lose your time simulating reality.
Create it and experiment. Listen and
improve.
Get something working as fast as you
can. It is the best way to get momentum.
www.37signals.com
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16. Focus on execution
“The missing link between
aspirations -what the leaders of
the company want to achieve-
and results: the organization's
ability to achieve it.”
“The discipline of aligning persons
with goals in order to achieve
planned results”
“A system to have things done”
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17. Avoid “passion killers”
Surround yourself with happy people,
passionate about life and their job.
Search for good “students”:
inquisitive people; people willing to
learn..
You 'd better choose an average
profesional but “passionate about his
job” rather than a frustrated and
unhappy “guru”.
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18. Don't let legacy kill your dream
“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas,
but in escaping from the old ones”
John Maynard Keynes
“If you always do what you have always
done, you'll always get what you have
always got”
Haines
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19. And above all consider that...
Maybe it's time to
leave your
“comfort zone”
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20. Maybe it's time to
leave your
“comfort zone”
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