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Engineers as Future Leaders

Wali Zahid | ceo, Skill City bahrainNED University Karachi, Pakistan: 3 October 2013

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At Pakistan Vision 2025 meeting

Let’s talk about you, engineers!

You create or recreate the world!

You create this

Engineers are clever!

German Engineering Arab Technology clip

Impatient Gen Y’ers / Millennials

Three parts of the talk

1. Where the world is heading – technologically,

economically

2. How is it easy or challenging for engineers to

be leaders

3. How you can get ready to lead by using

Wali’s Will-Skill Matrix

All of this

Through visual content

Part 1: Where the world is heading

The world is connected today in ways that are

shattering traditional communications concepts

Technologically

Changes at exponential speed

Gen Y: Impatient – want it now, not five minutes from now!

Facebook and Youtube replace everything

Did you know? clip

Microsoft vision clip

What is out

1. Teachers, teaching, knowledge, instruction

2. Attentive, disciplined students (not made any

more!)

3. Degrees (Google HR - no GPA, no interviews!)

4. Schools & universities (replaced by MOOCS, Khan

Academy, FutureLearn)

End of teaching? Edudemic

Learning, not teaching! Wharton

End of college degrees: HBR

GPA & interviews useless: Google

Khan: Teacherless classrooms

MOOCs replacing unis

Free education globally

MOOCs rising

Even UK unis following!

Economically

Pakistan is one of the top 20 economies in the

world in 2050*

*Goldman Sachs

World in 2010

World in 2050

Goldman Sachs: Jan 2012 report

Bordering 2 giants – China & India!

Just one glimpse

Retail sector in Pakistan – CNN clip

Socially/demographically

We are becoming a richer and healthier world

Muslim populations in the West are increasing

at a rate that it will change the European

cultural landscape by 2050

Hans Rosling clip

Church clip on Muslim Demographics

Part 2: Engineers as leaders

Expectations from the world

Your personality type

Challenges

Expectations from the world

The American Society for Engineering Education

The Engineer of 2020 Project

A high-risk, high-pay-off approach for the

future of US engineering education

9 attributes

9 attributes of engineer of 2020!

1. Strong analytical skills

2. Practical ingenuity, creativity; innovator

3. Good communication skills

4. Business, management skills

5. High ethical standards, professionalism

6. Dynamic/agile/resilient/flexible

7. Lifelong learner

8. Able to put problems in their socio-technical and operational context

9. Adaptive leader

Role of engineers in the economy

If you want good manufacturing jobs, one thing you could do is graduate more engineers.

Jeffery Immelt, CEO General Electric

More S&P 500 CEOs obtain their bachelors degree in engineering than in any other field.

US National Academy of Science, 2007

In the emerging economy of the new century, the team with the most engineers wins .

Director Maine Heritage Policy Center

A world with issues

Four key issues

Energy

Transport

Climate change

Waste disposal

Solution depends on?

1. Technology

2. People

Q: Which side engineers are good at?

Technology/People mix!

Innovation: Change through technology

Leadership: Change through people

Technical ability x leadership = Impact!

Our numbers maybe right, but…

Math vs trust clip

Engineers are left-brained?

Business

leadership

whole-brain

function!

A AnalysisD DecisionsE EvaluationL LogicN NumbersW WordsV VerbalMemorySurgeon/Accountant/ Lawyer / EngineerRational

C ColourI IdeasG GesturesA ArtR RibbonF FeelingsI ImpulseImageRhythmEmotional

Engineers on the RIDO scale

Mostly, engineers are…

Left-brained

Introvert / need ‘alone’ time

Logical/rational/analytical

Practical (not very ‘creative’)

Structured/methodical/process-oriented

Functional expertise vs people skills?

Two issues

1. Politics

2. Too much hard work!

4 styles of political behaviour

How people are promoted

Research: What takes you ahead at job?

Learning: What does this tell you? (Ashridge, UK)

Performance (work)

Image (reputation)

Exposure (visibility)

Part 3: Getting Ready!

How you can get ready to lead by using

Wali’s Will-skill Matrix

Some useable examples

Did I say: Inspiring?

How Steve Jobs did this

46 seconds clip

Lessons: changing the world?

How Samsung does it!

13 pivots of Samsung…1

1938 – Samsung started as a grocer

1. 1940s – groceries → noodles

2. 1950 – selling sugar

3. 1954 – largest woolen mill

4. Late 1950s - insurance and securities

5. 1960 – black & white TVs

6. 1980 – phone switch boards & fax systems

13 pivots of Samsung…2

7. 1987 – founder dies; department stores, chemicals & logistics, paper/telecom and electronics

8. 1980 – investment in electronic facilities

9. 1990 – investing → construction

10. 1990s – downsizing and merging during recession

11. Late 1990s – largest memory chip manufacturer

12. 1995 – chips → LCDs; largest flat screen TV manufacturer

13. 2010 – LCDs → smartphones

How a child does this

Indian tree fall clip

Before anything, you need a goal

What do you want to achieve, say, in 5 years?

Take 3 minutes

Try as much clarity/foresight as you can

Be as ambitious/crazy as you can!

It doesn’t need to be about money

Tell people around you

Your BIG goals?

What are they?

How some others will use 5 years

The 5 years clip

To achieve your goal

What you need is…

five BIG things

The first two

1. Will

2. Skill

Wali on will & skill

To succeed as a leader, engineers need

Willand

Will & Skill

Will = desire,

hunger, drive,

ambition,

willingness, your

reason for being,

mindset

Skill = ability,

competence,

capability,

something you are

known for, niche,

skillset

Let’s watch a clip from Shaolin Soccer

Wali’s Will-Skill Matrix v1

The next two

3. Focus

4. Energy

Focus-Energy Matrix

ENERGY High

Distraction40%

Procrastination30%

Purposefulness10%

Disengagement20%

Bruch & Ghoshal study for Harvard Business Review

Why focus matters?

Focus clip

How disengagement wastes you

Boring job clip

Procrastination/distraction

The fifth

5. The Flow

The Flow?

MihalyCsikszentmihalyi: Good business: Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning

The Flow

David Beckham clip

All of this, with team work

Teamwork clip

In summary…

Engineers will be ready to lead if you:

1. Have a worthwhile goal

2. Have a high will and a high skill

3. Work with high focus and high energy

4. Move to a higher-level challenge (flow) when things become routinised

Before we end, the final 3 pieces

What leads to success clip

Of eight things, what is your pick?

The right thing vs the easy thing!

Rise and shine clip

This clip will guide you how to create global

success and become Olympians!

Finally, remember

Every time you fall clip

Thank you!

Wali Zahid

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