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Accounting Day 2009 Building Foundations

Accounting Day 2009 Building Foundations. New Leadership For A New Economy Dr. Helen Eckmann. Foundations Of Old School Leadership. Great “Man” Theory Jack Welch, GM Executives, for examples Secrets – Old “Boy” Networks Enron, WorldCom, for examples 3. Cause and Effect Thinking

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Accounting Day 2009 Building Foundations

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  1. Accounting Day 2009Building Foundations New Leadership For A New Economy Dr. Helen Eckmann

  2. Foundations Of Old School Leadership • Great “Man” Theory Jack Welch, GM Executives, for examples • Secrets – Old “Boy” Networks Enron, WorldCom, for examples 3. Cause and Effect Thinking GM, AIG, for examples

  3. Why We Need New Leadership Thinking • Problems are too complex • Sustainability and sourcing • Global perspective • Looking at both problems and opportunities with a systems view • Innovation imperative

  4. What Are The Foundations Of Leadership For The New Economy? • Systems Thinking: Looking at the entire structure or framework • Dance Floor/Balcony: Viewing the organization on the “micro” & “macro” levels • Tension Thinking: Deeply analyzing situations from clear thinking & less emotion

  5. What Do We Gain From New School Leadership? 1. Innovation: Two Feet of Innovation • Process Improvement • New Idea Generation 2. Sustainability: People, Planet and Profits

  6. Left Foot Look at ways to improve what we are already doing Right Foot New Ideas, New Thoughts, Processes, Products, Services Innovation

  7. Systems Thinking • Definition: Ability to identify the laws that govern a system • Looks at the foundation or “root causes” not symptoms • Identifies points of “Leverage” Based upon the work of Peter Senge: http://www.infed.org/thinkers/senge.htm

  8. Dance Floor/Balcony • Views Innovation, Sustainability and Leadership issues from the macro and micro level. • Understands and appreciates the simultaneous changes that need to occur from both the lowest level of the organization and the highest level of the organization. Based upon the work of: Heifitz, R. (1994). Leadership without easy answers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

  9. Tension Thinking Is the ability to analyze both the argument and the contra argument without emotion or “judgment”. Based upon the work of Dr. Helen Eckmann

  10. Final Note “If you insist on beginning only with certainties you shall end in doubts. But if you will be content to begin with doubts, you shall end in certainties.” Francis Bacon

  11. Contact Information IMAGINATION IS OURPOWER http://www.jameslconsulting.com/ Dr. Helen Eckmann

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