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LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES:
DR. NEREUS ACOSTA
CONNECTING THE I’S
SEPTEMBER 2007
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LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES
INTEGRITY
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INQUIRY/IDEAS
• WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW?• WHAT DO WE DO?
• WHAT IDEAS DRIVE OUR GOALS?• WHAT KNOWLDEGE BASE DO WE HAVE
OR NEED TO DEVELOP?• HOW DO WE BUILD CAPACITY?
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INSPIRATION
• WHY DO WE DO WHAT WE DO?• WHAT DO WE BELIEVE IN?• WHAT IS OUR PURPOSE?• WHAT IS OUR VISION? • WHERE DO WE DRAW ENERGY, INNER
DRIVE TO DO THE THINGS WE DO?
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INNOVATION/INITIATIVES
• HOW DO WE GO ABOUT DOING THE THINGS THAT NEED TO BE ACCOMPLISHED?
• WHAT NEW WAYS, APPROACHES, STRATEGIES, TECHNOLOGIES DO WE TAKE OR USE?
• HOW CREATIVE, PRO-ACTIVE CAN WE BE?
• WHAT PARTNERSHIPS, CONVERGENCES CAN WE FORGE?
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INTERESTS
• WHAT ARE THE STAKES? ISSUES? • WHO ARE THE STAKEHOLDERS?/WHO
ARE INVOLVED? WHAT ARE THEIR RIGHTS?
• HOW DO WE ACHIEVE CONSENSUS? • HOW DO COMPETING INTERESTS REACH
CONVERGENCE?
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IMPLEMENTATION
• HOW DO PUT OUR PLANS INTO ACTION?• WHAT ARE THE RESPONSIBILITIES THAT
NEED TO BE EMBRACED?• WHAT ARE OUR MECHANISMS FOR
ENFORCEMENT? FOLLOW-THROUGH?• WHO ARE ACCOUNTABLE?• HOW DO WE MEASURE IMPACT?• WHAT DO WE DO WHEN “THE RUBBER
HITS THE ROAD?”
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INSTITUTION-BUILDING
• HOW DO WE SUSTAIN OUR WORK, PROGRAMS, PROJECTS?
• HOW DO WE STRENGTHEN SYSTEMS AND MAKE THEM SUSTAINABLE OVER THE LONG TERM?
• HOW DO WE STRENGTHEN GOVERNANCE?• HOW DO WE CONSTRAIN ABUSE OF
POWER, BUILD TRANSPARENCY/ ACCOUNTABILITY?
• HOW DO WE BUILD TRUST WITHIN THE SYSTEM?
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INTEGRITY
• INTEGRA – WHOLE, SOLID• SOCIAL TRUST, SOCIAL CAPITAL –
LEADERS AND CONSTITUENCIES SHARE A COMMON VISION, TRUST ONE ANOTHER, DRAW INSPIRATION FROM WORKING TOGETHER
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LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES
INTEGRITY
ENABLING FACTORS
DISABLING FACTORS
FREEDOM, DEMOCRATIC CONSENSUS-BUILDING,RESOURCES
CORRUPTION GREED ENVYPOVERTYANTI-DEMOCRACY
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LEADERSHIP AND TENSION/RESISTANCE
• LEADERSHIP as the management of tensions, building muscle when pain is greatest.
• Leadership is formed and tested not in times of convenience or comfort but in times of controversy and conflict. (Martin Luther King)
• taking the ‘difficult right’ over the ‘easy wrong’
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QUALITIES/ATTRIBUTES OF LEADERSHIP
• Insistent -- persistence/perseverance, self-sacrificing
• Introspective – self-critique, would not run away from fear, self-doubt
• Innovative – stepping out of comfort zones, conventional ways of thinking, seek impact
• Integrative – interfacing/holistic, ‘the forest for the trees’, looking for new connections, linkages, global-local -‘glocal’ approaches
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• Intuitive – faith, simplicity, humanism, inner strength, deep inspiration, life of example
Be the change you want to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
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PARADOXICAL COMMANDMENTS
• People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. LOVE THEM ANYWAY.
• If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. DO GOOD ANYWAY.
• If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. SUCCEED ANYWAY.
• The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. DO GOOD ANYWAY.
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PARADOXICAL COMMANDMENTS
• Honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable. BE HONEST AND FRANK ANYWAY.
• The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. THINK BIG ANYWAY.
• People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. FIGHT FOR THE FEW UNDERDOGS ANYWAY.
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PARADOXICAL COMMANDMENTS
• What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. BUILD ANYWAY.
• People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. HELP PEOPLE ANYWAY.
• Give the world the best that you have and you will get kicked in the teeth. GIVE THE WORLD THE BEST ANYWAY.
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Leadership can be exhausting, thankless, frustrating, difficult.
BE LEADERS ANYWAY.