deloitte & touche keynote sep04
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This keynote was for the partners and senior managers of Deloitte & Touche, as part of their Milestone leadership [GEMS] programTRANSCRIPT
The Leadership Imperative
Sam Swaminathan
ChangeChange
• There was no change in global GDP for 1000 years, except during the last 100 years.
• Innovation came from the village banker, barber, bishop, blacksmith, and butcher.
• Suddenly, the density of connections has grown and so the range of ideas has grown too.
The Current RealitiesThe Current Realities
• Globalization has blown open protected markets
• The Internet has made mortar feel like millstones
• A Cambrian explosion of new competitive life forms
• The distance between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish is narrowing relentlessly. Dreams and reality were never so near!
• Francis Fukuyama is dead. Long live Fukuyama. We now possess the power to interrupt history. Don’t let the future catch you flat-footed.
The Current RealitiesThe Current Realities
Schumpeter’s gales of creative destruction have become a hundred thousand hurricanes.
Collapse of Communism New World Order
Birth of Internet New Economic Order
The Current RealitiesThe Current Realities
Japan’s ImperialismJapan’s ImperialismThe gift to the Sun GoddessThe gift to the Sun Goddess
SinshuSinshu
No No
JingiJingi
Japan’s ImperialismJapan’s ImperialismThe gift to the Sun GoddessThe gift to the Sun Goddess
SinshuSinshu
No No
JingiJingi
Muscle
Money
Mind
Muscle
Money
Mind
Organizational EvolutionOrganizational Evolution
Agricultural Age
Industrial Age
Information Age
Money Vs MindMoney Vs Mind
• The fact that we were entering the he fact that we were entering the information economy was announced in information economy was announced in 1991, when capital spending on 1991, when capital spending on information technology [$112 B] information technology [$112 B] surpassed capital spending on surpassed capital spending on production technology [$107 B] in the production technology [$107 B] in the USA.USA.
Money Vs MindMoney Vs Mind
Money Money isis subtractivesubtractive
Mind Mind isis additiveadditiveMind = KnowledgeMind = Knowledge
Intellectual CapitalIntellectual Capital
“Tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.”
Abraham Lincoln
“We can’t wait for evolution: three million years to grow a lung, another twenty to learn to walk upright, sixty more to grasp a spear, ten more to light a fire.”
– Peter Senge
We need to speed corporate evolution.
Internet TimeInternet Time
The donning of computer clothing by modern man is no less significant then the donning of outer clothing by the Paleolithic– Timothy LearyTimothy Leary
Knowledge WorkKnowledge Work
How good are you?
Who will vouch for it?Who will vouch for it?
We live in…We live in…
THE AGE OF AMBIGUITY
The more complex the environment becomes, the more ambiguous life becomes.
Who do you learn from?Who do you learn from?How many biographies did you read in the last 3m, 6m, 9m, 12m?
Who is your mentor?Do you have one?
Key DriversKey Drivers
Passion & PurposeNot
Political or Positional Power
The Network Is The FutureThe Network Is The Future
DC 3
Best Quality Leaders1. Enormous energy and passion for
the job – a real leader – sees it operationally – not as a ‘staffy’.
2. Ability to execute, energize and mobilize the organization around the benefits of action – not a bureaucrat.
3. Understands it is all about customers and upping the bottom line.
4. Has a very good grasp of quality, which is equal to, or bettered by, strong financial background and capability.
5. Has a real edge to deliver bottom line results and not just technical solutions.
Best Quality Leaders
Key Leadership Ingredients
“E4”=
• Energy
• Energizer
• Edge
• Execution
Values and Performance Critical to Success
“E4”
Energy =
Enormous Personal Energy - Strong Bias for Action
Key Leadership Ingredients
“E4”
Energizer =
Ability to Motivate and Energize Others ... Infectious Enthusiasm to Max Organization Potential
Key Leadership Ingredients
“E4”
Edge =
Competitive Spirit ... Instinctive Drive for Speed/Impact ... Strong Convictions and Courageous Advocacy
Key Leadership Ingredients
“E4”
Execution =
Deliver Results
Key Leadership Ingredients
“E4”= • Energy
• Energizer
• Edge
• Execution
= Passion
Key Leadership Ingredients
77 STEPS TO LIFELONG LEARNING STEPS TO LIFELONG LEARNING1. Write your resume today.2. Give it to a headhunter, and find out what you
may be worth in the talent market.3. Compare this with what you are being paid
today.4. If you are getting more, worry yourself to
death.5. If you are getting less, feel happy – you are
safe.6. After 6 months, write your resume again.7. If both resumes are similar, know that you
will soon be history.
DISTINCTIFY… OR DIE!
“If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself, you won’t get noticed and that increasingly means you won’t get paid much, either.”
— Michael Goldhaber, Wired
ARE YOU…ARE YOU…
– Committed– Determined to make a difference– Focused– Passionate – Irrational about your life’s project– Ahead of your time / Paradigm buster– Impatient– Action Driven
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
– John.F.Kennedy
Escape from your concepts prison
Seize the Opportunity offered to you, and run with it. Hope to live till you are five hundred!
And, finally…And, finally…
LEAVE A LEGACY!!
Brought to you by
Sam SwaminathanSam SwaminathanCenter for Creative Thinking
http://[email protected]
Thank you