LEADERSHIP IN PRACTICE

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LEADERSHIP IN PRACTICE
September 2001
T. Michael Porter President Chief Executive
Officer The CUMIS Group Limited
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MANAGEMENT
Leadership in Practice
Management is

• Planning Budgeting
• Organizing Staffing
• Controlling Problem Solving

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LEADERSHIP
Leadership in Practice
Leadership is

• Establishing Direction
• Aligning People
• Motivating Inspiring

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THE FUTURE CHALLENGE
Leadership in Practice

• Leadership
• Leadership Development
• War for Talent

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ESTABLISHING DIRECTION
Leadership in Practice
Developing a vision of the future - often the
distant future - and strategies for producing the
changes needed to achieve that vision.
John P. Kotter A Force for Change
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ESTABLISHING DIRECTION
Leadership in Practice

• Relationship Management (customer
  relationships)
• Mission / Vision / Values
• Instituting a Planning Process
• Strategic Plan
• 6 Strategies (consistent, with addition of
  profit)
• Tactics / Actions / Change

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ESTABLISHING DIRECTION
Leadership in Practice
Leaders need to look around the
corner and anticipate what will be there
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ALIGNING PEOPLE
Leadership in Practice
John P. Kotter A Force for Change
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ALIGNING PEOPLE
Leadership in Practice

• Communication (staff forums, publications)
• People Practices
• 360o Process (behavior, skills, competency)
• Building Trust (values / openness)
• Planning Processes / Planning Teams

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ALIGNING PEOPLE
Leadership in Practice

• Top 35 Survey
• Employee Opinion Survey
• Reward Recognition
• Measuring / Revisiting

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MOTIVATING INSPIRING
Leadership in Practice
Energizing people to overcome major political,
bureaucratic and resource barriers to change by
satisfying basic, but often unfulfilled, human
needs.
John P. Kotter A Force for Change
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MOTIVATING INSPIRING
Leadership in Practice

• Leadership is bred, not learned
• People Priority
• Values Focus
• Mentoring Program
• Constant Change / Continuous Learning
• Bringing People Together

AND ...
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MOTIVATING INSPIRING
Leadership in Practice
CREATING THE CULTURE
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THE FUTURE CHALLENGE
Leadership in Practice
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT McKinsey Co.s War
for Talent 2000
Our company has enough talented managers to
pursue all or most of its promising
opportunities.
Our company is always looking for talented
people, even if we are not trying to fill a
specific position.
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THE FUTURE CHALLENGE
Leadership in Practice
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT McKinsey Co.s War
for Talent 2000
Our company has enough talented managers to
substantially increase our performance relative
to competitors.
Our company pays whatever it takes to prevent
losing our high performers to other companies.
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THE FUTURE CHALLENGE
Leadership in Practice
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT McKinsey Co.s War
for Talent 2000
We are confident that our current actions will
lead to a stronger talent pool in the next three
years.
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THE FUTURE CHALLENGE
Leadership in Practice
SYSTEM CHALLENGES

• Future Leadership
• Organizational Development
• Intellectual Capital
• Market Penetration
• Growing Market Share

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THE FUTURE CHALLENGE
YOURE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR PEOPLE, AND THE WAR
FOR TALENT IS INTENSE.
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THE FUTURE CHALLENGE
AS KNOWLEDGE AND INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL BECOMES
MORE IMPORTANT, ORGANIZATIONS MUST ATTRACT,
MOTIVATE KEEP THE BEST TO WIN.
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THE FUTURE CHALLENGE
Leadership in Practice
MOVING FORWARD

• Making available our Intellectual Capacity

• Invitation to share our Competencies,
  
  Processes and Learning