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Rules
for
Revolutionaries
X420 Discussion Session # 65
“Microsoft is two years
away from failure”
—Bill Gates
How Change has Changed
• The “How” (implementation) has been replaced
by the “What” (strategy)
• Continuous improvement has been replaced by
discontinuous innovation
• Straight line innovation has been replaced by
non-linear innovation
• Knowledge can be bought by the pound . . .
insight is priceless
The Eight-Stage Process of
Creating Major Change
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Establishing a sense of urgency
Creating the guiding coalition
Developing a vision and strategy
Communicating the change vision
Empowering broad-based action
Generating short-term wins
Consolidating gains and producing more change
(don’t let up)
• Anchoring new approaches in the culture (make
change stick)
Management versus Leadership
Management
Planning & budgeting
Organizing & staffing
Controlling & problem solving
Leadership
Establishing direction
Aligning people
Motivating & inspiring
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Produces predictability & order
Produces dramatic change
Hierarchy of Executive Capabilities
• Level 1 – Highly Capable Individual
– Makes a productive contribution through talent, knowledge, skills, and
good work habits
• Level 2 – Contributing Team Member
– Contributes individual capabilities to the achievement of group objectives
and works effectively with others in group setting
• Level 3 – Competent Manager
– Organizes people and resources toward the effective and efficient pursuit
of pre-determined objectives
• Level 4 – Effective Leader
– Catalyzes commitment to and vigorous pursuit of a clear and compelling
vision, stimulating higher performance standards
• Level 5 – Executive
– Builds enduring greatness through a paradoxical blend of personal
humility and professional will
Characteristics of
Level 5 Leadership
• Ambitious first and foremost for the company,
not themselves
• Set up their successors for even greater success
• Display compelling modesty and are selfeffacing
• Fanatically driven to produce sustained results
• Display workmanlike diligence – “more plow
horse than show horse”
• Attribute company success to others; company
disappointments to themselves
Two Rules for Leaders
• While a good leader tells a good story, a great
leader helps you find yourself in a story.
• No leader has to be able to deliver a great
speech. But every leader has to have a great
speech to deliver.
Four Competencies of
Leadership
• Create ATTENTION – compelling vision that
brings others to a place they have not been
before
• Create MEANING – “tangebilitate” the vision
• Communicate TRUST – reliable and consistent
• Know thy SELF – realistic self appraisal
Building Great Companies
• Disciplined People
• Disciplined Thought
• Disciplined Action
Disciplined People
• Level 5 Leadership
• First Who, Then What –
getting the right people on
the bus
Disciplined Thought
• Confront the brutal facts
and never loose faith.
• Establish an
understanding of what
you can be the best at.
Disciplined Action
• Culture of discipline
• Technology accelerators
Leading
the
Revolution
EVALUATION QUESTIONS
1. I found the presentation material
easy to understand.
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2. This discussion session increased
my knowledge of the subject presented.
USE:
– a. Strongly agree
– b. Agree
– c. Disagree
– d. Strongly disagree
– e. Don’t know
3. I will be able to use some of the
information from this session in the future.
4. The presenter was well prepared for this discussion session.
5. This presentation should be repeated in future semesters.