THE ESSENCE OF GREAT LEADERSHIP – EBOOKVISUAL SUMMARY OF ORIGINAL LINKEDIN POST

SANJIV M KARANI

FUNDAMENTAL QUERIES

•When it comes to great leadership, what competencies, attributes or behaviors truly matter?

•Can they be mastered by anyone at any stage in their professional career?

MCKINSEY

Leading Self

•Establishing credibility

•Leading with purpose

•Delivering results

•Doing whatever it takes

•Interpersonal savvy

•Embracing flexibility

•Tolerating ambiguity

•Understanding one’s own values and culture

Leading Others

•Coaching and developing others

•Leading team achievement

•Building and maintaining relationships

•Resolving conflict

•Learning to delegate

•Innovative problem solving

•Embracing change

•Adapting to cultural differences

Leading Managers

•Thinking and acting systemically

•Managing organizational complexity

•Negotiating adeptly

•Selecting and developing others

•Taking risks

•Implementing change

•Managing globally dispersed teams

•Building resiliency

Leading the Function

•Being visionary

•Driving results

•Strategic thinking and acting

•Creating engagement

•Identifying innovation opportunities for new businesses

•Working across boundaries

•Leading globally

Leading the Organization

•Creating and articulating vision

•Creating strategic alignment

•Developing a leadership and talent strategy aligned with business strategy

•Leading the culture

•Executive image

•Creating a culture of innovation

•Catalyzing change

•Leading outwardly

CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP

BAIN & COMPANY

PEW RESEARCH CENTER

QUANTUM LEADERSHIP GROUP

SUMMARY

McKinsey

• Effective problem Solving

• Strong results orientation

• Seeking different perspectives

• Supporting others

Center for Creative

Leadership

• Self-awareness

• Learning agility

• Influence

•Communication

•Additional competencies based on:

• Leading Self

• Leading Others

• Leading Managers

• Leading the Function

• Leading the Organization

Bain & Company

• Inspiring others

•At least 4 leadership attributes out of total 33

•Centeredness being the most important one

Pew Research Center

•Honesty

• Intelligence

•Decisiveness

•Organization

•Compassion

• Innovation

•Ambition

Quantum Leadership

Group

• Providing strong ethics & safety

• Empowering others

• Fostering connection & belonging

• Encouraging learning

•Nurturing growth

LEADERSHIP MANTRA

Distilling these leadership competencies from leading research frameworks into two simple rules:

1. “Inspire Action” (IA) leadership mantra from John Quincy Adams

2. “3P” leadership mantra from me

“INSPIRE ACTION” (IA) LEADERSHIP MANTRA

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

Positivity – Pain always sharpens you; soembrace obstacles head on with positiveattitude and mindset

Passion – Everything you do leaves a mark;so settle for nothing but excellence andinspire great actions

Purpose – What’s inside you is useful, notwhat’s outside; so focus on what reallymatters

MY “3P” LEADERSHIP MANTRA USING PENCIL ANALOGY

Please refer to the original LinkedIn post The essence of great leadership – “Inspire Action” for additional insights and/or share your own leadership perspectives.

Best wishes for all your leadership pursuits.

- SANJIV M KARANI