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Entrepreneurial Leadership
"Good management cannot
compensate for a lack of vitality."
~ Jean-René
Fourtou, Chairman of Rhône-Poulenc
In the increasingly
turbulent and competitive environment firms face today, a
new type of "entrepreneurial" leader distinct from other behavioral
forms of managerial leadership is required.
Entrepreneurial leadership
is the primary force behind
successful change.
Entrepreneurial leaders discover emerging business opportunities and empower employees
to act on the
vision. They execute through
inspiration and develop implementation capacity networks through a complex
web of aligned relationships...
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Organizational &
Management Evolution
Three Stages7 |
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Bureaucratic
Organization:
established the principles of
traditional management
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Complex Organization: achieved
higher levels of performance by explicitly violating the
traditional management practices
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Adaptive
Organization:
reinvents the principles of management in response to
new economic realities. Responsibility and authority are
reinvented and made consistent.
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Lessons from Jack Welch
Three Key Qualities
of New Business Leaders |
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To be bursting with energy
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To be able to develop and implement a
vision
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To know and be able to spread enthusiasm like wildfire by firing up
the entire company
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Developing The Fast-Paced Flexible
Culture
By:
Michael Dell
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Set a Common
Goal. Mobilize your
people around
a
common goal. Help them feel a part of something
genuine, special, and important, and you'll
inspire real
passion and loyalty...
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Inspirational Leadership:
10
Roles
Inspirational leaders
create an
inspiring culture
within their organization.
They supply a shared
vision
and
inspire
people to achieve more than they may ever have dreamed possible.
They are able to articulate a shared vision in
a way that inspires others to act.
People do what they have to do for a
manager, they do their best for an inspirational leader...
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Cultural
Intelligence
Cultural
Intelligence (CQ) – a new domain of
intelligence that has immense relevance
to the increasingly global and diverse workplace...
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Systems Thinking
Systems
thinking, the ability to see things
holistically, including the many
different types or relationships between the many elements in a complex
system, characterizes many of the today's world's leading executives...
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NLP
and the
Modern Manager
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the psychology of excellence and
the
technology of
→
achievement and
→
success.
In new era of
rapid change,
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Systemic Innovation
,
knowledge enterprises,
employee empowerment and
creative teamwork, an increasing number of executives shift emphasis
from
classic control-based managerial practices to managing the web of
relationships and
employee performance management in their organizations...
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New Focus: Managing
Business Enablers...
5 Key Questions
To Which
Managers Must Provide Coherent Answers...
New Ways of Working with
People...
New Approaches to
Employee Motivation...
Working Within the
Ambiguity...
Leading
Knowledge Workers...
Volatility
Leadership...
Winning Corporate Culture...
Empower Others...
Relentless Growth Attitude...
Energizing Employees...
The Fun Factor...
Five Manager's Mindsets...
Leading Systemic
Innovation
Teams...
Creative Leadership...
Systems Thinking...
Building Business Synergies...
Cross-functional Excellence...
Strategy Pyramid vs. Strategy Stretch...
Case in Point
Lessons from Jack Welch...

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References:
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The Centerless Corporation, Bruce A.Pasternack and
Albert. J. Viscio
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Building Tomorrow's Company, Philip Sadler
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MegaChange, William F. Joyce
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Relentless
Growth, Christopher Meyer
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Performance Management, Phil Baguley
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Leading on the Edge off Chaos, Emmet C. Murphy and Mark A. Murphy
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MegaChange, William E. Joyce
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Jack
Welch and the GE Way, Robert Slater
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The Welch Way, Jeffrey A. Krames
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Jack Welch quoted in Washington Post, March 23, 1997
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How To Motivate Every Employee, Anne Bruce
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Management Challenges for the 21st Century,
Peter Drucker
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Adapted from characterization used by GE Capital
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