1. The Pipeline: Top Flight Professor Rob Goffee July 2019
Why Should Anyone Be Led By You? Authentic Leadership and Authentic Organisations
The Pipeline: Top Flight
Professor Rob Goffee
July 2019

2. Behaviour In Organisations
Individual
Team
Organisation

3. Leading in a re-set world…

4. Loss of Loyalty / Cohesion
47 x 47 x 47 = 100k
37 x 37 x 37 = 50k
60 x 50 x 17 = 50k
25 x 25 x 50 = 50k

5. Loss of Faith

6. Loss of Trust

7. Loss Of Meaning And Fun
“Work is about daily meaning as well as daily bread; for recognition as well as cash; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying…we have a right to ask of work that it include meaning, recognition, astonishment and life.”
Studs Terkel

8. Rise of Gen Y
Gen X on steroids…
High expectations of self and others
Creative challenges and responsibility
Fast recognition
Question traditional authority
High mobility
Work-life balance

9. Rise of Clevers Cleverness is central to their identity
Their skills are not easily replicated
They know their worth
They ask difficult questions
They are organisationally savvy
They are not impressed by hierarchy
They expect instant access
They are well connected
They have a low boredom threshold
They won’t thank you

10. Rise of New Role Models?

11. The World Turned Upside Down
FROM
making individuals more valuable to organisations – by “motivation” and “engagement” TO
making organisations more valuable to individuals – who are already valuable

12. The Leadership Outcome?
Leadership is getting harder…
And more valuable
Clever compensation is not enough
To attract, keep and engage the best people requires inspirational leadership…
and moral purpose

13. The Leadership Deficit
We want it – but we kill it
We research it – but we don’t understand it

14. Followers Want . . .
Community
Authenticity
Significance
Excitement

15. Ask Yourself
Are you exciting?
Are you authentic?
Who decides?

16. Leadership fundamentals…

17. What Leaders Do
Excite people to exceptional performance
Provide direction and values
Shape the culture

18. Leadership Is Contextual

19. Leadership Is Relational

20. Leadership Is Non-hierarchical

21. What Authentic Leaders Do
Sense situations…and articulate them

22. What Authentic Leaders Do
… and articulate them

23. What Authentic Leaders Do
Identify – get close but keep your distance
Tough empathy

24. What Authentic Leaders Do
Reveal significant real and perceived differences
Mobilise fast

25. What Authentic Leaders Do
Reveal difference - know and show yourself enough

26. What Authentic Leaders Do
Reveal weakness
Transparency

27. When you really care you reveal your weaknesses
What Authentic Leaders Do
When you really care you reveal your weaknesses
Your weaknesses should be real, humanising, and may show followers how they can help.

28. What authentic leaders do
Communicate with care

29. BE YOURSELF
MORE
WITH SKILL

30. Customize Your Development
High
Effective Leader
Maverick
Authenticity
Unaware and Clumsy
Phoney
Low
Low
High
Skill

31. What You Can Do Now
Crucibles of experience
Sources of replenishment
Gain perspective
Get feedback
Don’t try to be perfect
Being good v being great
Are you in the right place to express your authentic self?

32. Some new leadership rules
Dos
Don’ts
Explain and persuade
Tell people
Use expertise
Use hierarchy
Give people space and resources
Allow them to burnout
Tell them what
Tell them how
Give people time
Interfere
Provide boundaries (agree simple rules)
Create bureaucracy
Give recognition (amplify their achievements
Give excessive feedback

33. Some new leadership rules
Dos
Don’ts
Encourage failure and maximise learning
“Train”
Protect them from the rain
Expose them to politics
Talk straight
Use bullshit or deceive
Give real world challenges with constraints
Build an ivory tower
Create a galaxy
Recruit a star
Conduct and connect
Don’t take all the credit as the leader