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Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard; Opportunity International Global Board Chair
SESSION 2: Defining Leadership
- Named Fortune’s Most Powerful Woman in Business for six consecutive years
- Under her leadership, Hewlett-Packard doubled in revenue to $90B, generated 11 patents per day and led the market for all of its product categories
- A sought-after opinion leader and frequent commentator in both broadcast and print media
- Founder of One Woman Initiative, a global ambassador for Opportunity International, and chairman of Good 360, the world’s largest philanthropy organization
Session Notes
- What you are is God’s gift to you; what you make of yourself is your gift to God. (plaque given to her by her mother)
- When working as a secretary it was her boss who saw the potential in her, thought she could be more.
- Human potential is the only truly unlimited resource in our world.
- Bureaucracies crush potential. They forget who they are there to serve.
- What unlocks human potential?
- The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.
- Leadership is not management.
- A manager works within the constraints of the environment. Leadership is about changing the order of things.
- MLK didn’t start by changing the people in power but by unlocking the potential in people without power.
- Nelson Mandela didn’t become a leader because he was president. He became president because he was a leader.
- Jesus was a nobody who led other nobodies.
- People think a great speech is leadership. Words are not enough. The most important part of leadership is what leaders do.
- Leadership framework… [drew a square]
- [top] Strategy, goals, vision – where, why, how
- [right] Organization, team, structure, process – how are we going to work together to get this done
- in some orgs, processes are in conflict with goals
- in some orgs, lots of processes but not driven by any goals or vision
- reorganization can be a temporary illusion of progress, doing something.
- [bottom] Metrics – how are we going to measure progress
- What gets measured is what gets done.
- [left] Culture, behavior
- People listen to the talk for a while, then they start watching actions.
- Actions speak louder than words
- If you do not reward/punish stated values, people figure out what really matters is results
- An organization cannot achieve its potential if it does not empower its people to achieve their potential.
- 20% of people are change agents. 20% of people are resistant. 60% are skeptics waiting to be engaged.
- Leadership is a profoundly human gift available to all.
- True leadership requires faith.
- Faith gives us the gift of empathy and optimism, both essential to leadership.
- Leadership is more about faith in others than confidence in oneself.
- Leadership is a choice. Choose to change the order of things and unlock the potential of others.
Thank you Paul for resume.
This session was not presented in Brazil summit edition.
Best Regards
Rafael
Thanks Lot.
This session was a great. It was a one day summit. I was blessed. The message unlocked my ridged thinking. It was great.
Thank you.
Thanks a Lot.
This session was a great. It was a one day summit. I was blessed. The message unlocked my ridged thinking. It was great.
Thank you.