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What I learned from MBA school
Ruben Canlas Jr.PCO Conference
Nov 26, 2011
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Agenda
• Leadership vs Management
• Self-awareness & Self-mastery
• Becoming a strategic thinker
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Why I took MBA
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4
Most of what we call
management consists of making
it difficult for people to get
their jobs done.
-- Peter Drucker
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Leadership & Management
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Group work
• What are the main differences between leaders and managers?
• Roles, responsibilities, expected behavior, mindset, etc.
• Discuss with your group and pick the top 3 answers.
• Write one answer per card.
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MANAGER LEADER
Administers Innovates
Maintains Develops
Focus on systems & structure Focus on People
-- Bennis and Townsend
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MANAGER LEADER
Relies on control Influence, built on trust
Short-term view Long-term view
Eye on the bottom line Eye on the horizon
-- Bennis and Townsend
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In short...
MANAGER LEADER
Preserve status quo
Change status quo
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We manage property...
http://www.360tech.com
http://www.cs.rochester.edu
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We manage property...
http://www.360tech.com
We lead people.
http://www.cs.rochester.edu
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A story about
innovation
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What kind of skills, character traits should a leader/manager have?
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Self-Awareness & Self-Mastery
http://www.postgazette.com/healthscience/20010730antshealth2p2.asp
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Group Art
• Food
• Study
• Red
• Sky
• Work
• Vacation
• Community
• Any simple theme
1. Pick one theme for your group:
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Important: after choosing your theme...
• NO TALKING
• NO GIVING OF DIRECTIONS
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Group Art2. Everyone take a pen, crayon or pencil.
3. Draw a group picture about your chosen theme.
• Everyone starts at the same time.
• NO stopping.
• NO talking; NO coordinating.
• NO giving of directions.
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How do ants (and humans) collaborate?
http://www.cs.uml.edu
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How would you define good team work?
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Good leadership
• The ability to lead self (self-leadership).
• Self-leading starts from self-awareness.
• Self-awareness leads to empathy.
• Empathy brings social skill: ability to work well with others.
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Emotional Intelligence
• Walter Mischel, Daniel Goleman
• Mastery of emotions is as important as intelligence
• Importance of EI or EQ
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The Marshmallow Testhttp://youtu.be/6EjJsPylEOY
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Those who grabbed...
• Suffered low self-esteem
• Stubborn, prone to envy, easily frustrated
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• Better adjusted
• More dependable
• Scored higher on SATs (210 pts higher)
Those who waited...
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IQ is not everything
• EQ is better predictor of success than IQ
• In a study of corporate leadership:
• Managers with high EQ got better ratings at staff evaluation
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Being a strategic thinkerhttp://www.strategysolutions.nl
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The T-Shaped Businessperson
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The T-Shaped Businessperson
Detail-oriented: executing
Technical skills
Macro perspective: sensing/visioning
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Aravind Eye Hospital
• With innovative business sense, an eye clinic hurdles major obstacles to set up a successful operation.
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What lessons can we learn from Aravind?
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Self-awareness Activity
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Self-awareness Activity
• You are 85 years old and people have gathered to celebrate your life.
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Self-awareness Activity
• You are 85 years old and people have gathered to celebrate your life.
• What are they saying about your life? Your legacy and achievements?
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Self-awareness Activity
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Self-awareness Activity
• What do I like about myself?
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Self-awareness Activity
• What do I like about myself?
• What do people tell me are my gifts and talents?
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Self-awareness Activity
• What do I like about myself?
• What do people tell me are my gifts and talents?
• What achievements am I proud of?
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Self-awareness Activity
• What do I like about myself?
• What do people tell me are my gifts and talents?
• What achievements am I proud of?
• What do I want to improve about myself?
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Self-awareness Activity
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Self-awareness Activity
• What is happening around my environment that affects me deeply, that matters to me?
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Self-awareness Activity
• What is happening around my environment that affects me deeply, that matters to me?
• Family
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Self-awareness Activity
• What is happening around my environment that affects me deeply, that matters to me?
• Family
• Community
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Self-awareness Activity
• What is happening around my environment that affects me deeply, that matters to me?
• Family
• Community
• Industry/Society
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Self-awareness Activity
• What is happening around my environment that affects me deeply, that matters to me?
• Family
• Community
• Industry/Society
• The world
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Self-awareness Activity
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Self-awareness Activity
• Given the previous questions, create an action plan for yourself
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Self-awareness Activity
• Given the previous questions, create an action plan for yourself
• Long-term (next 10 years)
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Self-awareness Activity
• Given the previous questions, create an action plan for yourself
• Long-term (next 10 years)
• Mid-term (3-5 years)
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Self-awareness Activity
• Given the previous questions, create an action plan for yourself
• Long-term (next 10 years)
• Mid-term (3-5 years)
• Very short-term (starting tomorrow)
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Sharing
• Pair up.
• Share with your partner.
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Strategic thinking is ultimately about
doing the right thing and making hard
decisions based on evidence.
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But you won’t always have complete
and right evidence.
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The trick is to develop the ability to
make decisions, to act, to tolerate
failure, and to learn continuously.
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• twitter.com/cryptonomikon
• rcanlas@alumni.cmu.edu
• http://rubencanlas.com
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