This document provides a summary of a presentation on leading and managing for results in the 21st century economy and business. The presentation covers several topics: the great shift from 20th to 21st century organizations; result-based leadership; developing an MFR strategy; building an MFR organization; key MFR skills for managers; and leading digital transformation. The presentation emphasizes the need for adaptability, a results focus, collaborative culture, and viable digital strategies to succeed in today's dynamic environment.
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1. 21st Century Economy and Business:
Leading and Managing for Results
Kayode Adebiyi, FCA, MBA
at the
3rd ICAN-MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTANTS CONFERENCE
KEDAH, MALAYSIA
March 24-25, 2021
4. “The 20th and
21st Century
Organization compared”
Kotter, John P, Leading Change, pg.172
5. Structure
20th Century
•Bureaucratic
•Multileveled
•Organized with the expectation
that senior management will
manage
•Characterized by policies that
create many complicated internal
interdependencies
21st Century
•Non-bureaucratic, with fewer rules
and employees
•Limited to fewer levels
•Organized with the expectation that
management will lead, lower-level
employees will manage
•Characterized by policies and
procedures that produce the minimal
internal interdependence needed to
serve customers
6. Systems
20th Century
•Depend on few performance
information systems
•Distribute performance data to
executives only
•Offer management training and
support systems to senior people
only
21st Century
•Depend on many performance
information systems, providing
data on customers especially
•Distribute performance data
widely
•Offer management training and
support systems to many people
7. Culture
20th Century
• Inwardly focused
• Centralized
• Slow to make decisions
• Political
• Risk averse
21st Century
• Externally oriented
• Empowering
• Quick to make decisions
• Open and Candid
• More risk tolerant
9. We are moving …
• From “Old World” …
• Lower complexity, slower
change
• Somewhere ‘someone’ knows
• ‘More of the same’ is the rule
• Learning has a short shelf-life
• Learning has a long shelf- life
• Knowledge is scattered
• The ‘senior ones’ know most
• …To “New World”
• High complexity, fast change
• No individual can pretend to
‘know’
• Innovation is the ‘rule’
Source: Obeng, E and Gillet, C (2008) The Complete Leader. London
Business Press, Buckingham, p3
10.
11. Change!
•“In times of rapid change,
experience could be your worst
enemy.” - J. Paul Getty
www.terrypaulson.com
18. Managers vs. Leaders
• Managers know how to
plan, budget, organize, staff,
control, and problem solve
• Managers deal mostly with
the status quo
• Management is a bottom
line focus: How can I best
accomplish certain things?
• Management is doing things
right
• Leaders create and
communicate visions and
strategies
• Leaders deal mostly with
change
• Leadership deals with the
top line: What are the
things I want to accomplish?
• Leadership is doing the right
things
25. What is a result?
A result is a measurable
or describable change
resulting from a cause
and effect relationship.
26. What is Managing for Results?
An approach to management used by an
organization to:
Determine the most important results
Establish and communicate direction
Monitor progress toward meeting its goals
Invest resources strategically for results
Use fact-based performance information to
continually improve performance and provide
accountability for results
What gets measured gets done
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27. Results are supposed to be
S.M.A.R.T.
• Specific
• Measurable
• Attainable
• Result-oriented and relevant
• Time-bound
34. Organizational (Corporate)
Culture
A pattern of basic assumptions
that are considered valid and that
are taught to (or “caught by”)
new members as the way to
perceive, think, and feel in the
organization.
41. Strategy
Definition: “Strategic planning is creating a vision of the
future and managing toward that expectancy”
It's an effective process for aligning your short-term
decisions with your long-term goals
Strategic planning answers the three big questions:
1. Where are we today?
2. Where do we want to be in the future?
3. What should we be focused on today, in order to make it
more likely we will be where we want to be in the future?
42. The Secret to how to do more with
less . . .
Collaboration
Innovation
Leadership
STRATEGY
49. The Journey Through Change
Stability
1.
Comfort
and
Control
Looking
Back
Looking
Forward
Chaos
3.
Inquiry,
2.
Fear, Anger,
and Resistance Experimentation,
and Discovery
Leading Change Training, Jeff and Linda Russell, 2003
53. Quality decision making
• Problem solving…
– Is bridging the gap between
the way things are and the
way they ought to be
– It is focused on the past
• Usually analytical
• Operational
• Done at lower levels
• A problem is
– A present unsatisfactory state that
needs to be changed to a desired
state as soon as possible.
– Some deviation from the expected
standard which prevent the
achievement of objectives.
• Decision making…
– Is a broader concept
– It is the act of making a choice
between two or more options
– It is focused on the future
• Often creative
• Directional
• Done at senior levels
• Problem solving is therefore
– part of decision making
– a subset of decision making
59. 1 N = 3 P
(One negative
statement is equal to
three
positive statements)
Vince Covello, PhD, Speaker
National Public Health
Leadership Development
Network
April, 2003
Risk Communication Communication
Communicate
62. Delegate
Two questions to ask leaders when they
become ineffective or suffer burnout:
1. Do you have the ability to build a team?
2. Do you have the right people around you
to share the load?
79. Culture – a roadblock or a catalyst for
digital transformation
80. What is a digital transformation?
Digital transformation is the cultural,
organizational and operational change of
an organization, industry or ecosystem
through a smart integration of digital
technologies, processes and
competencies across all levels and
functions in a staged and strategic way
until the organization is a fully
networked digital organization.
81. Digital transformation challenge
Digital transformation involves managing the
existing business and building for the future at
the same time, something like changing the
engine of the plane while in flight (Ashutosh
Bisht, IDC)
82. From the experts
• Ian Rogers, Chief Digital Officer at LVMH - “The
big moment for an organization is when they
have embraced the fact that digital
transformation isn’t a technical issue, but a
cultural change.”
• The Chief Digital Officer of a global consumer
products company says: “Culture change is a
prerequisite of digital transformation.”
83. Strategy or tragedy!
“Without a viable digital strategy, the possibility
of a digital tragedy is not far off” - anonymous.
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How to evolve a digital culture?
Take a system thinking
approach to culture change
Coding Digital DNA
Deploy competent digital
change agents
Invest in digital skills that
matter
Make digital culture change
tangible
Design new digital KPIs
focused on behaviours
Use collaboration tools to
increase transparency and
win with employees
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KEY MESSAGES
The Great Shift
Result-based leadership
MFR Strategy
MFR organization
The only competitive advantage
left in the 21st century is
adaptability
Effective leadership = Attributes
X Results
The culture of an organization is
shaped by the worst behavior
the leader is willing to tolerate.
If you don't have a viable strategy,
you will be defeated by someone
who does. Remember, culture eats
strategy for breakfast.
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PERSPECTIVE 2020: KEY MESSAGES
MFR Skills
MFR Manager
Digital transformation
Digital transformation
Problem-solving is a subset of decision making.
The higher you go, the more questions matter.
To have the right answers, you have to ask the
right questions.
The only thing you have 100% control
over is yourself.
Culture is either a roadblock or
catalyst for digital transformation.
Without a viable digital strategy, the
possibility of tragedy is not far off.