1. Solace South East
21st Century Leadership?

2. Who are we?
• Researchers exploring leadership in the 21st
Century

3. What is the New
Reality?
• Is there a new reality?
• At some point we move from a post-
industrial economy to something else -
What is it?
• How do we know when it’s a social shift
and not just incremental change?

4. • We think there is evidence of social shift

5. The World Wide Web was born with the
mosaic browser in 1993
Children born the same year are now 19

6. • This would be someone else’s problem if
not for the fact we are seeing increases in
all demographics
• 18-24 years olds are only 12% of the
active online audience

7. OFCOM Technology Tracker 2010 data (published 2011)

8. http://ukuncut.org.uk/

11. Next Generation Use
• The UK saw the highest growth in smartphone take-up in the past year with a 70 per cent
rise in subscriber numbers between January 2009 and January 2010.
• People in the UK are using their mobile phones for social networking more than in other
countries
• Data volumes over mobile networks increased by 240 per cent in 2009.
• Nearly a quarter of adults (23 per cent) accessed content or sent emails on their mobile
phones. Among 15-24s this rises to 45 per cent.
• UK consumers who have internet-enabled phones are also spending almost as much time
surfing the net on their mobiles (1.3 hours per month) as they do texting (1.5 hours per
month).
• Facebook accounted for almost half (45 per cent) of total time spent online on mobiles in
December 2009

12. Is this the network
society?
• Networks as the distinguishing feature
• Blurred boundaries
• Open by default
• Power is not hierarchical
• Relevance is earned

13. • This is not just about technology

14. An illustration – here
and now

15. A Fundamental Tension
Containment
Energy
Where is the balance in your organisation?

16. What saved the bank?
• The ability to observe the world from
30,000ft and analyse at 3 inches
• The ability to inspire and enable followers
• Being there when it counts – willing to
stand up and be counted
• Pathological collaboration with peers to
solve problems and get things done

17. What might it mean to
lead in this new reality?
• To be open and transparent
• To think in public
• To have to understand power in a new way

18. Being open
• Accepting the new ‘public-ness’
• Recalibrate your privacy machine

19. Being open
• Its not showing the results - its sharing the
thought process
• And being open to ideas

20. New forms of power
• Understand your relevance
• Find your connectors - be a connector
• Blur the boundaries
• In networks it is the actions that show up

21. Where are you

22. Where do you want to
be?
• Is your ambition to survive or to thrive?
• Do you feel the same pressure to change?
• Is your organisation changing?

23. Practising 21st Century Leadership -
An Action Research Approach to
Leadership Development

24. Get in touch
Martin Saville
martin.saville@mayvin.co.uk
+44 (0)7968 719940
www.mayvin.co.uk
James Traeger
james.traeger@mayvin.co.uk
+44 (0)7778 647712
www.mayvin.co.uk
Catherine Howe
catherine.howe@public-i.info
@curiousc
www.public-i.info
blog.mayvin.co.uk

25. Let’s Play!
• Round One – Locate our Connectors:
• Find out everyone in the room who:
• You have spoken a few words with them – black & white dot
• You have had a conversation – pink dot
• You know them well enough to lend them money and know
you’d get it back – red dot
• Be honest about it – we need a good picture of our
connectivity
• What are the implications and possibilities of the stickers for us?