1. The Yin-Yang of Leadership
March 26, 2013

2. References

3. Central Concepts ● Clock Making – Not Time Telling!
● The “Genius of the AND”
● Preserve the Core/ Stimulate Progress
● Seek Alignment

4. Clock Making – Not Time Telling
Concept # 1
Clock Making – Not Time Telling
Organization Building

5. Concept # 2
The “Genius of the AND”

6. Preserve the Core AND Stimulate Progress
Concept # 3
Preserve the Core AND Stimulate Progress
Preserve the Core
Drive for Progress

7. Seek Consistent Alignment
Concept # 4
Seek Consistent Alignment
Strategies:
● Big Hairy Audacious Goals
● Cult-Like Cultures
● Try Lots of Stuff and See What Works
● Home-Grown Management
● Good Enough Never Is

8. The Leaders Themselves
Level 5 Leadership
Professional Will
Personal Humility
Source: James C. Collins, From Good to Great

9. Professional Will ● Ambition for the Organization
● Driven to Produce Sustained Results – Make a Difference
● Share Credit
● Set Up Successors

10. Personal Humility ● Self-Effacing and Understated
● Take Responsibility
● Self-Effacing and Understated
● More Plow Horse than Show Horse

11. Focus on People Level 5 Level 4 First Who First What Then What
Source: “Good to Great”
Focus on People
Level 5
Level 4
First Who
First What
Then What
Then Who

12. Be Architects/Builders
Your Organization

13. Master the Genius of “AND”
Preserve our core purpose AND values

14. Stimulating Progress:
Through Strategies and Practices
Stimulating Progress:
Enduring:
● Purpose
● Values
Preserve the Core
Adapting to Change:
● Global
● Technologic
● Economic
● Societal
Stimulate Progress

15. The Visionary Test
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

16. Business Leaders’ Challenge
How do we preserve our core values AND vigorously stimulate change and adaptability?
Preserve Core Purposes and Values
Stimulate Progress through Strategies and Practices

17. Leaders Who Build Learning
Adapting to Global, Technologic, Economic and Societal Shifts

18. Example
Learning
Engaged Learning Technology Facilitated Assessment Guided

19. Leadership 1. Builders of our organizations who:
● Select and develop talent
● Strive to create sustained organizational success
● Nurture the culture of the whole

20. Leadership 2. Ideological and progressive enablers who:
Master the paradox of the “Genius of the AND”

21. Leadership 3. Facilitators who can:
● Embed strategies/practices that drive progress
● Empower people to achieve

22. Questions?