Leaderslip - Demise of Leaders, Rise of Followers

SLIPLEADERThe Rise of the FollowerAnd the Demise of the Leader

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The Book

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The Book

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The Author

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The BIG Idea

Leaders Demise

Followers Rise

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From Few...

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...to Many

Your Challenge

Stop. Look. Reflect.

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The Elephant in the room...

The Leadership Context

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Family Leadership reflects changes elsewhere

The Family

Based upon a hierarchy of command and control

Industrial Paradigm

Ordinary people making group decisions

Communities

Leaders less influential, Followers more so

The Levelling of Leadership

A History of Leadership

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A Visual Guide to the History of Leadership

Leadership over time

Removed from ordinary people

Gods and Goddess

Great men of virtue who can save us from ourselves

Down to Earth

Limits on rule and the right to life for followers

Individual Rights

If the leader does not serve us, we’ll recall them

Social Contract

The common man can overthrow the ruling class

Revolution

Commanders decide what shall be done and how

Industrial Leadership

Uniting ordinary people to create change

People Power

Falling repect and record low approval ratings

The Leader’s Demise

Everyone with a voice, instantly connected and united

Social Media & the Internet

The demise of the Leader, the rise of the Follower

Notice the Trend!

The Social Contract

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The basis of us and our collective society

The Double Helix

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Change leadership, change followership

Relationship

The only two reasons we would follow

Have To Want To

Wikileaks demands transparency

Information Rules

Exposed by information

ChurchPolitics Business

Technology Disrupts Control

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When leaders don’t deliver...

Revolution

We can see all the foibles of our leaders

Transparency

We’re not wearing any clothes either!

And You!

The young overtaking the old

The Arab Spring

The US Experience

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The struggle to make things happen

US Politics

Outsiders triumph over insiders

Social Media President

No clear leader

Tea Party

A specific attack on leadership

The inspiration for Occupy Wall Street

1% earn 25%

How will you respond to your leader?

The Follower’s Challenge

The World Experience

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Progress - no longer lead by the great man

Russia and China

The only remaining totalitarian regime?

North Korea

Normally stable becomes vulnerable

Japan

The rise of Facebook - expect further change!

Indonesia

People power and the courts overcome bureaucracy

India

Transition from military coup

Pakistan

Years of repression overturned in weeks by the young

Arab Spring

Protests in the streets

Europe

More than one super power

BRIC

More change to come?

Others

The Leadership Industry

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Courses continue to focus on creating the ‘great man’

Leader as Star

Leader at the centre of action

The Leadership Obsession

The leadership dollars are spent on learning how

Money How

Little research is validated in the workplace

Research?

A disconnect between what works and why

Self-satisfied?

The black sheep of the leadership family?

Bad Leadership

What are the current conditions we’re working in?

Context is weak

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The End of Leadership

What is leadership for you?

Stop. Look. Reflect.

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