Defining Leadership – Carly Fiorina

Session 2A: 2014-08-14 11:17 AM

• “Leadership is the same no matter what the context is.”
• “Everyone has potential”
• “Every organization has more potential than is tapped or used”
• “Potential is truly limitless”
• Why do people not reach their potential? - Afraid
• Don’t get the chance
• Don’t have the tools or training
• People lose faith (selves, others, God)
• Bureaucracy crushes potential (follow the rules, stick with the process, turn-in on selves – turf battles, forgets who it is there to serve
• Leadership unlocks potential - “The highest calling of leadership is unlocking the potential of others”
• Leadership is not… - management (production of acceptable results within known constraints and conditions) - Leaders changes the order of things
• good speaking
• “Jesus was a nobody and recruited other nobodies” – he went to the poor because he knew of their potential
• What do leaders do? Leadership framework (square) - top of square: vision/strategy/goals (clear and specific) - Where are we going?
• Why are we going there?
• How are we going to get there?
• right side of square: Organization/team/structure/process - How are we going to work together to get things done?
• Who should be a part of the team?
• “Structure should always follow a strategy” the why!
• bottom of square: Metrics/results - “What gets measured is what gets done”
• Are we measuring lives transformed?
• What are we measuring
• What are we recording
• left side of square: Culture/behavior - watch out for people pushing the limits of ethical behavior
• “The leader has to set the tone. He or she has to model the behavior”
• people are in the center of the square
• “Set the frame and then set people free.”
• 20/20 rule: - 20% of the people in most organizations are change warriors – identify, enlist, and harness these warriors
• 20% “Hell no, I won’t go” they become the source of resistance
• 60% skeptics–they are waiting to see what happens – change won’t happen until the skeptics get involved and engaged
• “Everyone has the capacity to lead”
• “Leadership is a profoundly human gift”
• “True leadership requires faith”– a love of God makes leadership easier - it supports humility
• it reminds that it is not about us…it is about others
• gives us the gift of empathy
• gives the gift of optimism
• helps have faith in others

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