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Leadership Essentials for Getting to the Top

Leadership Essentials for Getting to the Top. Ed Granger-Happ CTO, Save the Children. The question of a dream. A graveyard scene A tombstone that’s mine Engraved on it: “He cut costs” * to appropriate a story Tom Peters told. The question is…. What is your climb to the top

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Leadership Essentials for Getting to the Top

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  1. Leadership Essentialsfor Getting to the Top Ed Granger-Happ CTO, Save the Children

  2. The question of a dream • A graveyard scene • A tombstone that’s mine • Engraved on it: “He cut costs” * to appropriate a story Tom Peters told

  3. The question is… What is your climb to the top going to be about?

  4. Key questions to think about • What is your story? • What are you doing to help create new value? • How are you serving your customer? • How are you creating meaning? • How are you orchestrating strengths? • How are you connecting people? • How are you simplifying? • How creative are you in creating balance? • What are you doing to create excitement?

  5. Key questions to think about • What is your story? • What are you doing to help create new value? • How are you serving your customer? • How are you creating meaning? • How are you orchestrating strengths? • How are you connecting people? • How are you simplifying? • How creative are you in creating balance? • What are you doing to create excitement?

  6. What’s your story? • This is not just a “once upon a time…” • What are you passionate about? • Boil it down • What my word? connections • My story: • five careers • success to significance

  7. 4. How are you creating meaning? • The work has meaning “People want to work for companies their parents would be proud of” – K. DeCamp, Cisco • When we make a good IT decision, more kids get fed • My story • Connect the work to mission • Being the volunteer: TFR, teaching prospective CIO’s • Pepperidge Farm Story – Paul Amorello

  8. 5. How are you orchestrating strengths? • Find out what your people’s strengths are and build your team on these • Zander and Buckingham • The conductor doesn’t play –Ben Zander • Not everyone plays violin • Marcus Buckingham’s “The One Thing” • My story • A perpetual student of people management • Always trying new things—experiment with people; find out what motivates them

  9. 6. How are you connecting people? • Everything from partnering, living with your business VP’s, to connecting people with common interests and information • My story: • NetHope: collaboration and connectivity

  10. How are you simplifying? • Technology is complex, but • Talking about it isn’t • The consultant from Mars • The #1 skill? Translating • My story: • Managing on the business side • P&L • Tom Murphy’s IT Strategy comment

  11. What is your story? Creating new value? Serving your customer? Creating meaning? Orchestrating strengths? Connecting people? How are you simplifying? Creating balance? Creating excitement? Core values Innovator Customer Focus Visionary Management Partnering Master of Complexity Leadership Technology Champion Mapping to the CIO Leadership Profile

  12. A closing story • The parable of the 3 stonecutters Sweating my butt off breaking rocks Making a decent living for my family Building a cathedral • What cathedral are you building? • Welch’s 4 E’s and a P Energy, Energizing, Edge, Execution & Passion

  13. All that’s left of home

  14. Questions?

  15. Appendix

  16. 2. What are you doing to help create new value? • Creating value • flip side of cost cutting • Three levels of IT projects • keeping the lights on • improving work flow • delivering the mission (strategic) • My story: • Product manager • What’s my product at Save?

  17. 3. How are you serving your customer? • Who is your customer? Children living on a dollar a day? • How do you know if you’re serving them? Ask • My story: • running the support dept • consulting

  18. 8. How creative are you in creating balance? • The people coming up are asking about balance, are you? • Flexibility, creativity, championing • My Story: • Take on the vacated dept. or project lead • A recovering workaholic

  19. 9. What are you doing to create excitement? • Where are the rabid Steve Jobs technology evangelists? • This is cool stuff; get charged up about it! • My Story • Learn a new technology every 3-6 months • Lots of pilots, experiments • Did I mention being a perpetual student? …the homework never ends! • Make presentations like this (no acronyms, no hardware, no software!)

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