Leadership!

Innate but uncommon ability!

An Age old human trait!

To follow and to lead

To inspire and to be inspired!

• One person must have led the ancient erectus

to run along the shores to Australia from

Africa

– Richard Leakey did not tell me this

http://www.humanjourney.us/links.html

Very very old – ancient

• Moses lead his tribe out of trouble

• Chanakya altered the course of a nation

• Alexander, Gengis Khan, and so on…

• Each of them changed the world forever• Each of them changed the world forever

• Long time before Napolean, Washington, Abe

Lincoln,Mahathma Gandhi, JFK, Ford, Steve

Jobs ever showed up

What is it?

It is about persuasion. Getting others to

work toward a common goal!

They are inspiring!

World is not the same without them!

Breaking new ground!

– Defines a few essentials about leaders

• They did not know where they were going

– Fearless into the unknown

• They were dissatisfied with their locality

– Disenchanted with status quo

Leadership and leaders transform the world they live in

and the lives of countless others who heed them!

• Falling apple? Sir Issac Newton

• Pile of junk? Edison

• Wasteland in Florida? Walt Disney

What do you see?

• Moon? JFK

Leaders see no obstacle.

Leaders see what no others see.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

What makes a leader?

• Courage?

• Strength?

• Intelligence?

• Wealth? Inspiration• Wealth?

• Extraordinary insight?

• Vision?

• planning/execution?

Inspiration

Leadership Styles!

• Strategic leadership

• Team leadership

Facilitative leadership• Facilitative leadership

• Servent/leader

• Transformational leadership

Leadership Style

• Control

– The Laissez Faire leadership

– The participative leadership

– Emergent leadership– Emergent leadership

– Transactional

– autocratic

Leaders must adjust their style to the situation as well as to the people being led.

Attributes

• Facilitate growth

• Wellness of all employees

• Encourage community spirit• Encourage community spirit

• Share power and resources

• Provide supplementary support

Behaviors

• Listening

• Persuasion

• Foresight

• stewardship• stewardship

• Empathy

• Healing

• awareness

Transformational Leaders

• Simplify

• Motivate

• Facilitate

• Innovate

Develop vision

Sell the vision

Figure out a way forward

Lead the charge

Independence

Movement

Ahimsa• Innovate

• Mobilize

• Prepare

• resolute

Ahimsa

Non-violence

Satyagraha

Non-cooperation

Front of the march

Was lathi-charged

Was jailed

Was finally shot-dead

The New Deal!

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• America changed forever during his tenure

– Great depression

• New Deal• New Deal

– Social security

– Optimism and activism

– unified variety of factions

• Labor unions

• Southern whites

• aka New Deal Coalition

Crisis Management

Chesly B. Sullenburger III, the pilot

crash-landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the

Hudson River

http://mylifeatsea.blogspot.com/2007/05/everybody-can-hold-helm-in-calm-sea.html

Miracles can and do happen!

A sparkling diamond is the result of rough cutting and a lot of friction.

Gold in fire results in lustre.

Real leaders know that tribulations strengthens the inner self.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

• FDR - First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

• Style recommendation: autocratic

• Required attributes:

– Decisiveness– Decisiveness

– Calmness and confidence

– Mastery

– Maintaining calm and order

• Clear and transparent communication

His forceful leadership and many years in office inspired a term, the "imperial

presidency,“ Never allowed his personal disability to impact his destiny.

Innovation/Creativity

• Creativity is the key to Mankind’s success

– Robert Hefner, president Bradshaw Foundation

• Style Recommendation: Laissez-Faire

• Required attributes:• Required attributes:

– Independence

– Failure and success – treated alike

• Rewarding risk taking

– Encouraging experimentation without constraints

• Google, 3M, GE all do this at every level

The fire has destroyed all my mistakes

• and now I can now begin afresh

• Thomas A. Edison is quoted to have said after

a fire destroyed his electric light labGenius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration! Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration!

I never failed once.

It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

even after his first 8,000 experiments failed, Edison is quoted to have

Said, we now know 8000 things that dont work.

Edison had been judged poor student and was thrown out of school.

He went on to light up the world and start General Electric

Disclaimers

• I have never met any of the personalities nor taken their photoes

• Photoes are taken from the internet wikipediavia google searchvia google search

• Many of the quotes from assorted sources including

– http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/15/us/20090115-PLANECRASH_index.html

– http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1578.html

Resources

• http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventor

s/a/Thomas_Edison.htm

• http://www.coolavenues.com/know/gm/aarth

i_1.phpi_1.php

• http://bradshawfoundation.com/