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[Music]
[Applause]
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have you ever experienced a situation in
which you wanted to change something to
achieve something that it was bigger
than yourself you just couldn’t do it on
your own or it didn’t make sense to do
this on your own so you had to engage
others involve them and ask them to help
you if you have then congratulation
you’ve experienced being the leader it’s
a very broad definition so you can be a
CEO of large multinational corporation
you can be a team leader you can be a
parent or a teacher and you can act as a
leader in this role there is also a very
simple definition but it’s a tricky kind
of simplicity it’s a chess like kind of
simplicity when you want to learn how to
play the chess it takes no more than
just a few minutes to learn the basic
rules but to really master the game it
takes years but still it’s good to know
the rules it’s good to go for a style
and only then freestyle and this is
exactly what we gonna do today
we’re gonna do a less-is-more exercise
we’re gonna simplify things and we’re
gonna take leadership to its very
fundamentals to understand it better
imagine that you can close the nature of
leadership or a let’s say 90% of
leadership in just three questions here
they are
what is it exactly that you’re trying to
achieve why should they follow you and
who are you
those are again very simple questions
you could say maybe even too simple and
yes they are very simple but as you’re
gonna see in a few moments it’s not that
simple to answer them in a simple way
let’s start with the first one what is
it exactly that you trying to achieve
think about a situation you are
currently engaged in something that you
working on or have worked in the recent
past and try to answer this question
what is it exactly that you’re trying to
achieve you can feel it you can think
about it try to say it in your mind you
can say it out loud or you can finally
maybe write it down stand up in front of
all of your team members and read it and
there’s a massive difference between
feeling thinking and precisely
accurately and clearly explaining what
it is that you want to achieve this is
the most important question there is
nothing else without it all your actions
all your decisions everything that
you’re gonna do on your way to reach
your objective will be an aftermath of
it without it nothing else exists and I
know that you already know that but
unfortunately it’s true if you don’t
know what it is that you want to achieve
how will you know you’re on the way
right way to get it and it same applies
for your people for everyone who is
involved in your leadership mission how
are they supposed to know without
assuming what it is that you are
together trying to achieve this is very
important you’ve got to get this one
right and then goes the second question
why should they follow you and it’s not
why should your people follow you
because leadership it’s it’s about many
more people and then just your people
your team members it’s about your your
colleagues your peers your bosses your
wives husbands children students
everyone all the influencers whom you
need to achieve your leadership mission
I’ve got a rare privilege and luck throw
the most of my career to do new business
development corporate startups all kinds
of greenfield initiatives and it was
their nature that I had to engage
influence ask other people to help me to
achieve what I believe was right without
having any formal influence over them
no line reporting no formal hierarchical
Authority and I was passionately cursing
the slack in the early days of my career
but later on I learned that this is
exactly what leadership is about it’s
not about walking into the room big big
boss and saying this is what we’re gonna
do
it’s about asking people engaging them
to help you because they want to do this
imagine that money was no Denisha
imagined that they could just all walk
away within five seconds they could
unlike you like they can do it on
Facebook the moment they stopped liking
whatever it is that you’re doing think
and try to understand what is it exactly
that you’re doing for them what are they
getting from following you
how are you impacting them and their
lives and what do you really know about
them how do you keep them engaged and
motivated because leaders without
followers they are not leaders anymore
they can be very talented and gifted
individuals but that’s not a leadership
and gray leaders they have this amazing
ability of attracting great followers
and bringing the very best out of them
sometimes it’s even more that they could
achieve by themselves then goes the
third question who are you that’s a big
one that’s a that’s a dangerous one
almost scary to ask it but what does it
really mean well it means what’s
important for you it means what do you
value in your life what do you want to
be remembered for out of all many
different roles that you’re fulfilling
in your life where do you put your focus
on
and even though probably it’s impossible
or it leaves very difficult to fully
comprehend the meaning of this question
and answer I’m certain you can actually
answer it to a pretty precise extent
and when you’re in the business of
leadership you’ve got to give it a try
to be as precise and as accurate and as
clear about it this question and the
answer to it is very important in every
person’s life but the leadership it
allows you to understand if what you’re
pursuing in your leadership mission is
actually aligned with your true self it
allows you to understand better your
objectives and also this self-reflection
and consciousness it pays back because
it allows you to really focus your
attention authentically and fully on
other people
leadership is a little bit like a
superpower and with my eldest daughter I
I often have conversations before she
goes to sleep and we exchange on what
kind of superpowers we would both like
to have she usually goes for flying I go
for teleporting it’s easier you don’t
need to get that high and if you’re
afraid of heights it’s same effect but
not that risky and what our superpower
is anyway well those are some
supernatural abilities that superheroes
have and they use them to change the
world for the better they have them and
they can use them because without those
superpowers they couldn’t achieve
whatever it is that they are achieving
there would be ordinary people like you
and I the leadership is actually a kind
of superpower because a single person
with their followers they can achieve
really magical things
thanks to leadership things that hard
fact-based science and logic is
sometimes completely denying and there
is one very cool difference between
regular superpowers and leadership
superpower everybody has it because
flying or teleporting excluding Shaolin
monks you need to be born with this the
leadership is a choice and each and
every one of you can make a choice to
use it
so you’ve got three questions you got
what is it exactly that you want to
achieve this is your objective this is
what you want to get then you’ve got a
question why should they follow you so
you already know who’s with you who’s
gonna cover your back who’s gonna walk
with you and you together gonna achieve
your leadership objective and you got
the who are you question the who are you
question is actually giving you the why
the reason why this objective why these
people what are you doing for them but
there is just one thing missing in this
picture it’s action because leadership
my friends is empirical it’s about doing
and you can read all the books you can
do all the MBAs all the training get all
the coaches you can watch all TED
speeches on leadership and you can be a
world-class expert on leadership but
it’s the moment you act when you are
becoming a leader and in this respect
leadership is very much like sports my
favorite one is boxing so when you want
to be a boxer you eat healthy you
practice speed you workout in the gym to
be strong you punch the back to have a
good fighting technique but it’s the
moment you walk into the ring you put
your gloves on when you are confronting
your opponent knowing that you can lose
by going there to fight to win when
you’re becoming a boxer when you want to
be a leader and you’re asking yourselves
those three questions and searching for
three excellent answers try to answer as
good as you can but don’t look for a
perfect answer it doesn’t exist when
you’re thinking if you’re ready test and
be prepared as much as you can to be
ready they’ll remember you can never be
hundred percent ready so don’t look for
a perfect answer don’t wait to be
perfectly ready put your gloves on walk
into the ring confront your opponent and
when you hear the calling of your
leadership mission choose to accept it
hear of your clothes show your Superman
t-shirt
and choose to act thank you
[Applause]
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[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
have you ever experienced a situation in
which you wanted to change something to
achieve something that it was bigger
than yourself you just couldn’t do it on
your own or it didn’t make sense to do
this on your own so you had to engage
others involve them and ask them to help
you if you have then congratulation
you’ve experienced being the leader it’s
a very broad definition so you can be a
CEO of large multinational corporation
you can be a team leader you can be a
parent or a teacher and you can act as a
leader in this role there is also a very
simple definition but it’s a tricky kind
of simplicity it’s a chess like kind of
simplicity when you want to learn how to
play the chess it takes no more than
just a few minutes to learn the basic
rules but to really master the game it
takes years but still it’s good to know
the rules it’s good to go for a style
and only then freestyle and this is
exactly what we gonna do today
we’re gonna do a less-is-more exercise
we’re gonna simplify things and we’re
gonna take leadership to its very
fundamentals to understand it better
imagine that you can close the nature of
leadership or a let’s say 90% of
leadership in just three questions here
they are
what is it exactly that you’re trying to
achieve why should they follow you and
who are you
those are again very simple questions
you could say maybe even too simple and
yes they are very simple but as you’re
gonna see in a few moments it’s not that
simple to answer them in a simple way
let’s start with the first one what is
it exactly that you trying to achieve
think about a situation you are
currently engaged in something that you
working on or have worked in the recent
past and try to answer this question
what is it exactly that you’re trying to
achieve you can feel it you can think
about it try to say it in your mind you
can say it out loud or you can finally
maybe write it down stand up in front of
all of your team members and read it and
there’s a massive difference between
feeling thinking and precisely
accurately and clearly explaining what
it is that you want to achieve this is
the most important question there is
nothing else without it all your actions
all your decisions everything that
you’re gonna do on your way to reach
your objective will be an aftermath of
it without it nothing else exists and I
know that you already know that but
unfortunately it’s true if you don’t
know what it is that you want to achieve
how will you know you’re on the way
right way to get it and it same applies
for your people for everyone who is
involved in your leadership mission how
are they supposed to know without
assuming what it is that you are
together trying to achieve this is very
important you’ve got to get this one
right and then goes the second question
why should they follow you and it’s not
why should your people follow you
because leadership it’s it’s about many
more people and then just your people
your team members it’s about your your
colleagues your peers your bosses your
wives husbands children students
everyone all the influencers whom you
need to achieve your leadership mission
I’ve got a rare privilege and luck throw
the most of my career to do new business
development corporate startups all kinds
of greenfield initiatives and it was
their nature that I had to engage
influence ask other people to help me to
achieve what I believe was right without
having any formal influence over them
no line reporting no formal hierarchical
Authority and I was passionately cursing
the slack in the early days of my career
but later on I learned that this is
exactly what leadership is about it’s
not about walking into the room big big
boss and saying this is what we’re gonna
do
it’s about asking people engaging them
to help you because they want to do this
imagine that money was no Denisha
imagined that they could just all walk
away within five seconds they could
unlike you like they can do it on
Facebook the moment they stopped liking
whatever it is that you’re doing think
and try to understand what is it exactly
that you’re doing for them what are they
getting from following you
how are you impacting them and their
lives and what do you really know about
them how do you keep them engaged and
motivated because leaders without
followers they are not leaders anymore
they can be very talented and gifted
individuals but that’s not a leadership
and gray leaders they have this amazing
ability of attracting great followers
and bringing the very best out of them
sometimes it’s even more that they could
achieve by themselves then goes the
third question who are you that’s a big
one that’s a that’s a dangerous one
almost scary to ask it but what does it
really mean well it means what’s
important for you it means what do you
value in your life what do you want to
be remembered for out of all many
different roles that you’re fulfilling
in your life where do you put your focus
on
and even though probably it’s impossible
or it leaves very difficult to fully
comprehend the meaning of this question
and answer I’m certain you can actually
answer it to a pretty precise extent
and when you’re in the business of
leadership you’ve got to give it a try
to be as precise and as accurate and as
clear about it this question and the
answer to it is very important in every
person’s life but the leadership it
allows you to understand if what you’re
pursuing in your leadership mission is
actually aligned with your true self it
allows you to understand better your
objectives and also this self-reflection
and consciousness it pays back because
it allows you to really focus your
attention authentically and fully on
other people
leadership is a little bit like a
superpower and with my eldest daughter I
I often have conversations before she
goes to sleep and we exchange on what
kind of superpowers we would both like
to have she usually goes for flying I go
for teleporting it’s easier you don’t
need to get that high and if you’re
afraid of heights it’s same effect but
not that risky and what our superpower
is anyway well those are some
supernatural abilities that superheroes
have and they use them to change the
world for the better they have them and
they can use them because without those
superpowers they couldn’t achieve
whatever it is that they are achieving
there would be ordinary people like you
and I the leadership is actually a kind
of superpower because a single person
with their followers they can achieve
really magical things
thanks to leadership things that hard
fact-based science and logic is
sometimes completely denying and there
is one very cool difference between
regular superpowers and leadership
superpower everybody has it because
flying or teleporting excluding Shaolin
monks you need to be born with this the
leadership is a choice and each and
every one of you can make a choice to
use it
so you’ve got three questions you got
what is it exactly that you want to
achieve this is your objective this is
what you want to get then you’ve got a
question why should they follow you so
you already know who’s with you who’s
gonna cover your back who’s gonna walk
with you and you together gonna achieve
your leadership objective and you got
the who are you question the who are you
question is actually giving you the why
the reason why this objective why these
people what are you doing for them but
there is just one thing missing in this
picture it’s action because leadership
my friends is empirical it’s about doing
and you can read all the books you can
do all the MBAs all the training get all
the coaches you can watch all TED
speeches on leadership and you can be a
world-class expert on leadership but
it’s the moment you act when you are
becoming a leader and in this respect
leadership is very much like sports my
favorite one is boxing so when you want
to be a boxer you eat healthy you
practice speed you workout in the gym to
be strong you punch the back to have a
good fighting technique but it’s the
moment you walk into the ring you put
your gloves on when you are confronting
your opponent knowing that you can lose
by going there to fight to win when
you’re becoming a boxer when you want to
be a leader and you’re asking yourselves
those three questions and searching for
three excellent answers try to answer as
good as you can but don’t look for a
perfect answer it doesn’t exist when
you’re thinking if you’re ready test and
be prepared as much as you can to be
ready they’ll remember you can never be
hundred percent ready so don’t look for
a perfect answer don’t wait to be
perfectly ready put your gloves on walk
into the ring confront your opponent and
when you hear the calling of your
leadership mission choose to accept it
hear of your clothes show your Superman
t-shirt
and choose to act thank you
[Applause]
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