Leadership for Today

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Leadership for Today..What are you waiting for?

• 2009 New England School of Best Practices in
  Addiction Treatment
• September 17, 2009
• Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
• Peter M Smith, MBA
• 207-237-2188
• psmithconsult_at_roadrunner.com
• www.petersmithconsulting.com

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Agenda Overview

• Questions
• Context
• What we know
• Timeless Values/Beliefs?
• What is my responsibility?

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Why are we looking for Leadership?

• Where are we looking for leadership?

• And what are we looking for?

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A Historical Context

• The Plague (Europe)-mid-1300s
• Discovery of the New World -1492
• Discovery of Electricity-1750s
• American Revolutionary War
• Discovery of smallpox medicine-1780s

• Creation of Railroads
• Industrial Revolution late 1800s to early
  1900s
• Invention of Auto
• Invention of Telephone
• Great Depression
• First Airplane Flight
• World War I and II

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• How Different is the current global economic
  challenge from previous times in our history?
• Do not these, and other historical events,
  represent times of uncertainty? Major disruptions
  in economic wealth?
• Are the challenges somehow different today from
  yesterday? Is the pace of change faster?

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Phase One of Modern Management/Leadership Theory
and Practice

• Developed from scientific and engineering
  theories of management.
• Based on control of resources human, natural,
  and information.

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Phase Two of Modern Management/Leadership Theory
and Practice

• Employee participation
• Quality/Excellence
• Customer service
• Systems Thinking

• Chaos and Ambiguity
• Managing Change
• Organizational Learning
• Empowerment

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Teaching of Leadership has emphasis on
Leadership Styles

• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• Situational Leadership
• Multiple Perspectives
• Servant Leadership

• Emotional Intelligence
• Facilitative Leadership
• Visionary Leadership
• Autocratic Leadership

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The Future of Management/Leadership Theory and
Practice

• Who Knows?
• Will Organizations be the same?
• What will work and what will not work?

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Some Applications for Today
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We are still Learning

• About people
• About how to get things done
• What we want
• What we can have, and what we cannot have
• How to cope with uncertainty

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Management Practice-Continue with

• Control
• Planning
• Objective Setting
• Measuring/evaluating
• coordination

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Leadership Practice-Continue with

• Continuous Learning
• Engagement of Multi-stakeholders
• Communication Skills
• Change Leadership
• Development of organizations, teams, and
  individuals
• Self development- Who I am

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Leadership Practice-Further Develop

• Behavior Create the conditions and support for
  appropriate risk taking. There is a consequence
  for NOT taking risk.
• Skills
• Change as a process
• How to co-create with others
• Self development-

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Create Three columns on your 3x5 Index Card

• Column One
• Write three words that describe something you
  value about yourself.

• Column Two
• Write three words that have the opposite meaning
  of the words in column one.

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• Column Three
• Reframe the meaning of the words in Column Two.

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Self Development

• Strengthen our beliefs
• In ourselves
• In others
• Continue to Learn
• Be authentic-Have the courage to say you do not
  know everything

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Core Leadership Beliefs/Values/Attributes

• Ask questions and really listen to understand.
• Courage to take risks.
• Willingness to say and act on what you believe.
• Be persistent and willing to change your
  position.
• The power of self change/development and modeling

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• Leadership cannot be taught..
• It can be learned.

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• I have watched you stand there
• I have watched you stand there all day with a
  dark cloud low over your head.
• You keep turning, pointing, telling anyone who is
  near, Look, there is a dark cloud over my head!
  and asking How can I live with this dark cloud
  over my head?
• Move, you silly bastard!
• J. Skapaki

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• So when you face death, when you know youve
  lived life, lived life to its fullest, you are
  ready to go on to a new chapter.
• If you havent lived it, if you havent been
  here, never been present, I am sure you will be
  terrified of death because your whole life has
  been in absence. Youve missed it.
• Well, by heaven, I do not intend to miss mine.
• Marion Woodman