Why an innovative approach to leadership development is needed & fast
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Leadership Development Forum October 2014
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Leadership needs to change! Leadership is Changing...You've probably heard these phrases uttered over the last few years. But why does it have to? And why is it now even more important than ever?
Transcript of Why an innovative approach to leadership development is needed & fast
Leadership Development ForumOctober 2014
10:30 Adam Montgomery -
Leadership in the 21st
Century
11:00 Simon Biltcliffe - Webmart CEO
12:30 Lunch
13:30 When and why primary
school children outperform CEOs
14:00 Dave Corbett - An insight into
successful organisational and
personal change
14:30 Refreshments
14:45 Adam Montgomery - Future
Trends in Leadership Development
15:00 Close
Age
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Does leadership need to change?If so, then how?Does leadership development need to change?
Does leadership need to change?
Voter Turn Out General Elections
85% 1950 65% 2010
“Respect, integrity, communication and excellence.”
ENRON
7%*Maritz poll, April 2010
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“The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He can only be helped. But he must direct himself, and he must direct himself towards performance and contribution, that is, toward effectiveness.”
Peter Drucker - 1967
Private school, Eton, Oxford University, entered politics at 22
Private school, Fettes College “the Eton of the North”, Oxford University, entered politics at 22
Born Hackney, secondary modern education, started selling car aerials and out of a van which he had bought for £50
Montesorri school, PhD - Stamford university, wears roller skates to work
£26 billion 2% Employee owned business£37 billion Co-operatives£18.5 billion Social Enterprises
MasteryPurpose
Autonomy
“Hierarchical bureaucracy makes an assumption of incompetence and expects mediocre performance. It learns to live with mediocrity on a permanent basis, in the process creating—not surprisingly—the need for the layers middle managers to provide “close supervision. Agile makes the opposite assumption: competence. “
Steve Denning, Forbes, April 2012
So how does Leadership need to change?
Volatility
Unpredictability
Complexity
Ambiguity
No of automobiles in USA 1895 : 4 1916: 3,376,889
Ha-Jong Chang “It’s human nature to think that the changes you are living through are the most momentous, but you need to put these things into perspective.”
Black Swan Events – Nassem Taleb
Complexity
Big dataGlobal supply chains & distributionEverything is connected
