1. Leadership Strategies for Uncertain Times
Kate Rubin
Minnesota High Tech Association
Carlson School of Management
First Tuesday
May 5, 2009
Thanks so much for this opportunity, Thanks to Dean Davis Blake and the Carlson School, you all do a great job with training our next generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders, as well as creating these terrific events. I hope you will all find at least one nugget that you can apply to your personal as well as professional lives today, even if you are NOT working in a technology company per se. On the other hand, everyone today is participating in today’s global knowledge economy, whether we’ve stopped to think about it or not. So, let’s begin by looking at what I’d like to share with you today.

2. Leadership Strategies for Uncertain Times
My Leadership Lens
Uncertainty & Recent History
Personal Leadership Strategies
Strategies for Creating an Innovation Ecosystem
I want to first share my own personal leadership lens, how I developed my perspective, how I think about things based on my work and life experiences, so you can understand both how I arrived at these ideas as well as perhaps considering what is the Lens that you look through. As we’ll discuss, that Lens can make a big difference in your personal and professional success.
Next, I’d like to look at the idea of Uncertainty and Recent History, to put it in perspsctive.
Then we’ll examine some personal leadership strategies for dealing with uncertainty, as well as some ideas for creating an Innovation Ecosystem here in the region.
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3. Global Competitiveness
My Leadership Lens
ADVOCATE
Growth,
Sustainability,
Global Competitiveness of
Minnesota’s
technology-based
economy
EDUCATE
COLLABORATE
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4. Uncertainty & Recent History The More Things Change…
.com Bubble Burst
Y2K
Offshoring
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5. Uncertainty & Recent History …The More They Stay The Same
Unemployment
Stock Market
Failure of Financial Institutions
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Here’s One Strategy…
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7. Here’s Another Strategy…
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8. “As you Believe, So Shall You Lead”
Awareness Possibilities Choice
Beliefs can either Open up – or Close down Possibilities
History provides irrefutable examples…
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Who Said This?
Who Said This?
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
Charles H. Duell,
U.S. Commissioner of Patents, 1899
“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.”
Kenneth Olsen,
President and Founder of Digital
Equipment Corp., 1977
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LeaderSource, a Korn Ferry Company

10. Kate Rubin - First Tuesday Luncheon - May 5, 2009
Who Said This?
Who Said This?
“The horse is here to stay, the automobile is only a fad.”
President of Michigan Savings Bank to Horace Rackham, lawyer for Henry Ford in 1903
“There will never be a mass market for motor cars – about a thousand in Europe – because that is the limit on the number of chauffeurs available.”
A spokesman for Daimler Benz, in the early days of the automobile.
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11. Kate Rubin - First Tuesday Luncheon - May 5, 2009
Who Said This?
Who Said This?
“[Television] won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
Darryl F. Zanuck,
Head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946
“We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.”
Decca Records
Rejecting the Beatles, 1962
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LeaderSource, a Korn Ferry Company

12. Confluence/Convergence of Technologies
Vertical disciplines are important – but lines are blurring
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League of Innovations, 2002

13. Creating an Innovation Ecosystem
High
Tech
Jobs
Innovation
Growth
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14. Creating an Innovation Ecosystem
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15. Kate Rubin - First Tuesday Luncheon - May 5, 2009
getSTEM
Just Ask… Just Offer
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16. Creating an Innovation Ecosystem
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17. Kate Rubin - First Tuesday Luncheon - May 5, 2009
Broadband
REPORT DUE – NOVEMBER 2009
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18. Creating an Innovation Ecosystem
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19. Creating an Innovation Ecosystem
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20. Governor’s 21st Century Tax Commission
MINNESOTA’S MILLENIUM:
Launching a New Generation of Competitive Leadership and
Economic Growth
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21. Creating an Innovation Ecosystem
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22. How Long Will The Downturn Last?
6 Years
18 Months
Q4 2008
Q2 2009
Q4 2010
EQ4 2007
Q4 2013
At this point the economy should show incremental signs of improvements
3 Years
CONFIDENTIAL
© 3M 2008 All Rights Reserved - George Buckley 4/09
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23. So It's Partially About Today And Partially About Tomorrow:
CONFIDENTIAL
© 3M 2008 All Rights Reserved - George Buckley 4/09
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24. Minnesota High Tech Association
Thank you!
Contact/Thanks
Kate Rubin
Minnesota High Tech Association
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