VALUE-BASED LEADERSHIP; Innovation, Entrepreneurship and High Performance

Presented by

Michael Harris, Ph.D.Dean and Professor

College of Public Service and Urban AffairsTennessee State University

LEAD TNSPARK-Innovation Center

June 22, 2015

VALUE-BASED LEADERSHIP A Grim Assessment: “A Crisis”; Looking Beyond

Leadership the key to Innovation, Entrepreneurship and High Performance

State of Leadership?

Recent polls and data suggest that Americans believe that we face a “leadership crisis in the U.S.”

Studies show that both in the private and public sector expect shortage of executive talent. The Workforce Management Journal, “Companies are Heading toward a catastrophic shortage of qualified leaders... Companies are heading toward a perfect storm when it comes to leadership”.

The challenge we face: Can Leadership Be Enhanced?

VALUE-BASED LEADERSHIP

•Developing a vision and a collective destiny

•Motivating people to work together to accomplish extraordinary things

•Making decisions not arriving at conclusions and not being arbitrary and capricious

•Decision making is about making a choice grounded in and guided by values and integrity.

Leadership is About:

Value-Based Leadership

Leadership defined:

Developing a vision and a collective destiny; making decisions, overseeing change and creating transformations through empathy and collaborative work grounded in and guided by values and integrity.

The Search for a Definition

VALUE-BASED LEADERSHIP

Questions

•Can everyone be a leader?

•Is enhancing leadership feasible?

“Leadership and learning are

indispensable to each other.”

- John F. Kennedy

Leadership: An Art & A Science

LEADERSHIPART SCIENCE

Leadership draws from art & science

Everyone can be a leader! Leadership requires

knowing yourself.

Leadership: An Art & A Science

• Scientific elements of leadership include

Neocortex brain (analytical mind)– Higher functions– Analytical thinking– Decision making

Limbic brain (emotional mind, amygdala)– Emotional command center– Running all basic social interactions– Only partially conscious

• Art elements of leadership include – Innovation – Entrepreneurial– Creativity– Personal expression

“ The Origin Of Innovation And Entrepreneurship Is A Creative Mindset”

-Michael Harris

VALUE-BASED LEADERSHIP

• Its about you! Know yourself!– Core values

• External Constraints– Resources– Time– Org. Structure– Culture– Envy & Negativity– Other “Leadership traps”

Value-Based LeadershipFoundation & Constraints

Learning from Great Leaders

Lessons from Sir Ernest Shackleton

Value-Based Leadership

Has been called, “the greatest leader that ever came on

God’s earth, bar none”

-Sir Raymond Priestley Member of the Nimrod expedition

1907-1909

VALUE-BASED LEADERSHIP

1. Successfully led one of the most extraordinary survival adventures of all time.

2. Has been called: “the greatest leader that ever came on God’s earth, bar none”.

3. His principles and values are relevant.

Why Shackleton? His leadership qualities are relevant and compelling.

Shackleton’s Background (1874-1922)

• An Anglo-Irish• Apprenticed in the merchant marine• Traveled extensively – China, North & South America,

Africa• Participated as a crewman under Robert F. Scott on the

Discovery Expedition to Antarctica.

Discovery Expedition to South Pole (1901-1904)•The team reached 460 miles from the South Pole•Scott sent Shackleton home and blamed him for the failure to reach the South Pole.

Shackleton (L), Scott(C), & Dr. Edward Wilson (R)

The Race to the South Pole

The Race to the South Pole•Shackleton (Nimrod Expedition) 1907–09. He and three companions established a new record Farthest South latitude at 88°S, only 97 miles from the South Pole.

•Amundsen (The Fram Expedition) was the first to Reach the South Pole on December 1911.

•Scott (The Terra Nova Expedition) arrives at the South Pole on January 1912. Scott and his team perished on the way back.

Ad in London newspaper - 1913

The Endurance Expedition to Cross Antarctica: 1914-1916

Over 5,000 men responded!

The Endurance Expedition to Cross Antarctica: 1914-1916

The Endurance Expedition was the first ever attempt to complete a crossing of the continent from sea to sea (Weddell sea to the Ross sea). It would take a land journey of approximately 1,800 miles by foot via the South Pole.

“By Endurance we conquer” (“Fortitudine Vincimus”) -Shackleton family motto

The Shackleton Way

The Endurance Expedition: 1914–1916

South Georgia

Elephant

Island

1200 miles

1000 miles

WEDDELL SEA

800

The Shackleton Way

The Endurance Expedition: 1914–1916

Shackleton & crew depart Elephat Island for South Georgia Island 800 miles away, April 1916

VALUE-BASED LEADERSHIP:

Lessons from Shackleton

Innovative and High Performing Leadership

EmpowerEmpower

Team Unity

Forward Looking

Efficient use of resources

Lead by Example Learn from Failure

Learn from Failure

Calculated Risk Taking

Calculated Risk Taking

Be CreativeBe Creative

VALUE BASED LEADERSHIPShackleton’s Leadership Qualities

Shackleton’s Leadership Foundations

1. Values & Integrity

2. Planning and Calculated Risk

3. Forward Looking/Optimism

4. Accepting and Learning from Failure

5. Lead by Example

6. Courage and Humility

7. Team Unity/Empower

8. Creativity

9. Communications/Conflict Resolution

10. Flexibility

VALUE-BASED LEADERSHIP

“Never for me the lowered banner, never the last Endeavour.”

- Shackleton

“For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave”

-Robert Browning“Optimism is true moral courage”

-Shackleton

“The best explorer, however, is the man who can both ‘conceive and dare.’”

-H.R. Mill, Shackleton’s biographer.

VALUE BASED LEADERSHIPElements

1. Learning leadership and knowing yourself

2. Understanding constraints & “Traps”

3. Recognizing built-in contradictions• Individualism VS. being a team player• Creativity VS. uniformity• Challenge the status quo VS. adjust & adapt • Forward looking VS. accepting reality• Risk taking VS. punished for failing

Three elements to being an innovative and high performing leader

VALUE-BASED LEADERSHIP

Leadership, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship:

• Innovation is about new ideas, being more effective, and developing new solutions, achieved through better products, processes, services, technologies.

• Entrepreneurship – it’s a mindset of starting something new.

Start Up Nation How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 67 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the UK?

Senor and Singer examine the lessons and present two major factors. (1) Mandatory military service, (2) immigration.

Missing are two factors: a culture of learning and a survival mindset.

VALUE-BASED LEADERSHIPReferences

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• Huntford. The Last Place on Earth. (Modern Library: 1999).

• Kouzes & Posner. The Leadership Challenge. 3rd ed. (Jossey-Bass: 2002).

• Lansing. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage. (Carroll & Graf: 1959).

• Morell & Capparell, Shackleton’s Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer. (Penguin: 2001).

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• Parsons. “Brain Networks for Effective Leadership”. iedp.com, November 5, 2013.

• Scwab. “A National Crisis of Confidence”. U.S. News & World Report, November 19,2009

• Senor, Dan & Singer, Saul (2009). Start-up nation: the story of Israel’s economic miracle. New York, NY: Hachette Book Group.

VALUE-BASED LEADERSHIPAcknowledgements

Presentation Design, Editing, and Data Migration

Michael Harris/ Lornette Stokes/ Alex Frederick/ Tennessee State University

Joe Roesner/Alan Delos Santos/ Kettering University

Roy Tamir/ IU Kokomo

Ken Garner/Eastern Michigan University/University of Michigan