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Global Leadership Challenge
Dennis Kozlowski (Tyco Int’l)
Convicted - grand larceny, conspiracy, falsifying business records,
violating business law. Serving 8-25 year sentence at Mid-State
Correctional Facility, New York
Global Leadership Challenge
Global Leadership Challenge
Bernie Ebbers (MCI World Com)
Convicted- conspiracy, securities fraud, filing false statements.
Serving 25 years in Federal Prison, Oakdale, Louisiana.
Global Leadership Challenge
2008
“…secrets to our success … creating big pockets of entrepreneurship
throughout the company…”
Global Leadership Challenge
2008
“…secrets to our success … creating big pockets of entrepreneurship
throughout the company…”
Ken Lay (Enron)
Global Leadership Challenge
2008
”Once you think you can write down what made you successful, you
won’t be.”
Global Leadership Challenge
2008
”Once you think you can write down what made you successful, you
won’t be.”
Lou Gerstner (IBM)
Global Leadership Challenge
2008
“Americans are too informal in their dealings with their
counterparts abroad.”
P.M. Forni, Johns Hopkins University
Bush Gropes Merkel
Global Leadership Challenge
Daimler-Chrysler “Merger”
EBITDA MULTIPLE
+
Measurable goals
Private Equity
Traditional Company
Defining Global Strategy
Global Leadership Challenge
Ten Deadly Cultural Sins
Ten Deadly Cultural Sins
2008
“Culture hides much more than it reveals and, strangely enough,
what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own
participants.”
Edward T. Hall
Global Leadership Challenge
2008
“The failure to perceive yourself as operating in a culture subtly
creates the dynamic that you’re operating in standard mode, and
everyone else is deviant.”
Milton Bennett
Ten Deadly Cultural Sins
Ten Deadly Cultural Sins
we see things as we are.”
Anais Nin
Procurement, price-driven, “objectivity vs. only doing business
with people you know!
Ten Deadly Cultural Sins
Ten Deadly Cultural Sins
Ten Deadly Cultural Sins
2008
10. Everyone wants to learn - no one wants to be taught.
Ten Deadly Cultural Sins
2008
“Leaders must understand the values and opinions of their followers
— rather than assuming absolute authority — to enable a productive
dialogue about what the group stands for and how it should
act.”
Reicher, Haslan & Platow
Scientific American Mind
Global Leadership Challenge
2008
“The most effective leaders define their group’s social identity to
fit with the policies they plan to promote, enabling them to
position those policies as expressions of what their constituents
already believe.”
Reicher, Haslan & Platow
Scientific American Mind
Global Leadership Challenge
Help shape employees’ values and aspirations
“sweet spot” – successful vision
Emotional self-awareness: reading one’s own emotions and
recognizing their impact.
Emotional self-control: keeping disruptive emotions and impulses
under control.
Adaptability: Flexibility in adapting to changing situations.
Emotional Intelligence - EQ
Global Leadership Challenge
Relationship management: inspiring, influencing, guiding, change
management.
Emotional Intelligence - EQ
Global Leadership Challenge
Social cognition: knowing how the social world works.
Social Intelligence - SI
Global Leadership Challenge
Self presentation: presenting ourselves effectively.
Influence: Shaping the outcome of social interactions.
Concern: Caring about others’ needs and acting accordingly.
Social Intelligence - SI
Global Leadership Challenge
2008
The New Global Leader must balance the critical elements of
Emotional, Social & Cultural IQ – with the unrelenting drive
for timely financial performance & improvement.
Global Leadership Challenge
2008
“Not everything that matters can be counted, not everything that
can be counted matters.”
Albert Einstein
Jack Welch
Charlie Chaplin