The Art of Leadership

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The Art of Leadership

• Leadership Some Practical Experiences and
  Lessons.
• Does it matter
• Does it make a difference

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Leadership

• 15 years as a full time practising farmer, with a
  wide involvement in community affairs. This
  provided good lessons in
• Practical decision making
• Taking risks
• Working with limited resources
• How to be effective

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NZ Kiwifruit Industry- 1992 Crisis

• BELIEF that an outcome was possible, that I could
  do the job.
• JUDGEMENT to make the right calls when it was
  really difficult.
• INTEGRITY to rebuild trust that had been
  shattered by a series of events and poor
  communication.

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Wrightson Ltd- a dysfunctional company

• COURAGE to change some key workings of the
  board and senior management, and to reverse some
  company strategies.
• CLARITY to ensure that staff and customers were
  aware that we had recognised the mistakes, and
  were doing something about it.

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Air New Zealand Ltd- Financial Crisis 2001

• Key elements needed
• CULTURE Removing the old culture of privilege
  in management, and focussing on customers.
• TEAMWORK Creating a sense of team and
  responsibility
• NEW BUSINESS MODEL A complete re-look at how
  the business was structured.

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The Dance of Leadership The call for soul in
21st century leadership by Peter Cammock

• Cammock stresses the importance of EQ (Emotional
  Quotient) as opposed to IQ (Intelligence
  Quotient) as a key ingredient in effective
  leadership. He describes the critical
  characteristics of leaders are

Integrity
Faith
Passion
Courage
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The Heart of Character
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DEVELOPING THE ART

• Born not made, but
• Training and mentoring, e.g. Nuffield
• Experience at all levels e.g. great experiences
  at humble community level.
• Recognising what and where talent is

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Leadership

• Leadership then is all about people
• Leadership is not an academic exercise
• Leadership is mostly about commonsense and
  judgement.
• Its fun and personally fulfilling