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Leadership as PURPOSE
WHY leadership
1. What are
Leadership and
10 Leadership Management
Development & Review 2. CRITICAL THEORY
and Leadership As
Practice
9 Anthropological
Diversity
4. Leaders as
6 Leadership as
PERSON Part 3
PROCESS
Part 1
5a. Leadership as 5b. Leadership as
POSITION PURPOSE
PRIDEAUX BX3174
Outline
Key Readings
1. Mostovicz, et al, (2009)A Dynamic theory of
Leadership development.
2. Smith (2011) Science and technology foresight
bakers dozen: a pocket primer of comparative and
combined foresight methods.
3. Deiser (2011) Creative Leadership
Readings
Text Book
Key Readings.Continued
4. Kempster et al. (2011) Leadership as purpose:
Exploring the role of purpose in leadership practice
5. Amsteus (2011) Managers foresight matters
6. Inayatullah (2007) Six pillars: futures thinking for
transforming
7. Judkins (2015) Aspire to have no goals, pp96-99
Leadership is a journey in which we
Opening Thought
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Colin Powell speaks about leadership‏.mp4
Purpose: is it WHY leaders seek something?
Leadership as PURPOSE seeks to understand the end, purpose or goal of
leadership suggesting as Kempster, et al., (2011) note, that leadership is oriented to
enabling the achievement of something significant (p.318). Without a unifying
sense as to the outcomes of where leadership is directed, leadership is
without purpose.
Kempster, et al., (2011) argue that purpose is something inherent in all
human beings which connects with Aristotle's telos that a being has an
extrinsic determination to realise a purpose outside of self for the utility
and welfare of other beings Howie 1968 (p321). Suggesting that purpose is
outside the individual [leader] seeking the realization a greater good the
highest good for man consists not merely on the possession [of a purpose]
but in the exercise of it knowledge [of a purpose] merely possessed and
not put to use is ineffective and useless (1968: 47 cited in Kempster, et al., (2011).
This suggests that leadership as purpose is seeking to achieve
something of significance, outside of self and a greater good
through which the leader gains a greater sense of wellbeing
when connected to a societal purpose.
Leadership as Purpose
Futures Thinking
Even as the future disrupts, we remain tied to
old patterns of behavior.
We know we need to change but we seem
unable to.
What can we do? What should we do?
Inayatullah, S (2008) Six pillars: futures thinking for transforming, Foresight, Vol. 10 No. 1, pp4-21.
Moving towards PURPOSE
3. Alternative futures
We often believe that there is only one future. We cannot
see the alternatives, and thus we make the same mistakes
over and over. But by looking for alternatives, we may see
something new.
We are not caught in the straitjacket of one future. As
well, if our particular future does not occur, we do not die
from emotional shock, rather, we learn how to adapt to
changing conditions.
4. Alignment
We need to align our day-to-day problem-based approach
with strategy. And we need to align strategy with the broader
bigger picture, and the bigger picture with our vision and the
vision with our day-to-day. Often we envision a particular
future, and yet how we measure this future, our
organizational indicators, have no relationship to that vision.
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Conventional
Anti Thinking (ACT)
A new, fun and effective approach to creative thinking.
It is a four step process
Step 1 Play with the situation. Write down 15-20 open-
ended questions you could ask about the problem. Not
yes or no questions. Avoid boring questions.
Step 2 Sexy Goal Go through the questions and come up
with answers does not have to be definitive at this stage.
Make up answers if necessary. Crazy is good!
Now you should have a good feel for the situation
Step 3 Build Vision Now come up with the craziest idea for
the vision. Play with ideas, reject boring ideas.
Step 4 Manageable Steps Build an Action Plan When
you have an idea that all like-push it further. Make it
crazier. Make a story about what can be done with____
Thinking Exercise
How many uses can you think of for a
common red brick?
You have ten minutes.
No criticism whatsoever. All ideas must
be written down
1. Mapping
2. Anticipation
3. Timing the Future
4. Deepening the Future
5. Creating Alternatives
6. Transforming the Future
1. Mapping
2. Anticipation
Plausible
Future
Problems
Trends
Seeds
30 Years
Ago Emerging Issues Now
1. Mapping
2. Anticipation
11. This being said, foresight also needs to record, capture and evaluate the
information it generates otherwise much of the value will be lost.
12. And to best enable good capture, the use of the tools should be both
concurrent and connected whereby multiple tools enable participants to
share different aspects of their knowledge and experience.
Strategic Thinking
Is about considering the bigger organizational
context
Strategic Thinking - Elements
Intelligent
Thinking in
Opportunism Time
Allowing for Connecting the
emergence of Hypothesis Driven
new strategies past, present
Develop and test and future
efficiently
Adapted
Liedtka, from Jeanne
J. (1998) Liedtka,
Strategic Elements
Thinking: CanofitStrategic Thinking
be Taught?
Strategic Thinking - Elements
Use an
organisation to
do a Wouldnt it
nice and
Wouldnt it be
awful if wishful
thinking exercise
Use organisation
to do a Wouldnt
it nice and
Wouldnt it be
awful if
storyboarding
exercise
Source: Puccio, et
al, (2007) Creative
Leadership p. 136
Creative Thinking - The Pet-Peeve
Technique
Competitive Advantage
Strategic Issue
Reference: Buzan, T. (2005) the ultimate book of mind maps. London: Thorsons.
Do You Want To:
These rules are intended to help you to free and good judgement:
for good judgement proceeds from good understanding, and good
understanding comes from reason trained rules, and good rules are
the children of sound experience, which is the common mother of
all sciences and arts Leonardo Da Vinci
Fish
Making A Mind Map
What image did your brain create?
A single fish
An aquarium
A fish shop
An ocean
Did you see colours?
Did you experience aromas?
Did you experience textures of the fish?
Making A Mind Map
The brain works with sensory images and creates appropriate
associations radiating out from them.
3D pictures are produced
Both the brain and mind
maps work by IMAGES
with networks of
ASSOCIATIONS
F N
Creativity Playground
What a creativity playground Mind Map Could Look Like
3. Be Clear
Use only one Key Word per line
Print all words
Print Key Words on lines
Make line length equal to word length.
The Rules of Mind Maps
Make major branches connect to central images
Connect lines to other lines
Make central lines thicker
Make your boundaries embrace your branch outline
Make images as clear as possible
Keep your paper placed horizontally in front of you
Keep your printing as upright as possible
4. Develop your own style
5. Layout
Use hierarchy
Use Numerical Order