The Meetings Matrix
Leading Your Matrix
Strategic Thinking
Presenter:
Joshua Owen MBA,BEc,FAICD,FCPA,CMAHRI,etc
Accredited Professional Speaker with the National Speakers Association
of Australia
Australia’s Leading Corporate Stretch
Joshua.Owen@ovations.com.au Ph. 02 9818 6622
Do you have what it takes to
successfully Lead your Matrix?
Rate yourself on a scale of 1 (lousy) to10 (excellent)
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I have strong Values and will resign, if necessary, if I am asked to lie
to, or mislead, staff, customers, shareholders, etc.
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I have a clear Vision and Plan for the next 5 years for my life
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I can describe with great clarity where my organization will be in 5
years’ time under my leadership
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I can state my organization’s Mission in words which will inspire all
staff to give of their best
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I am known as the great communicator in my organization
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My personal Values and Vision are in alignment with those of my
organization
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I take every opportunity to improve my leadership skills
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I provide opportunities for my staff to improve their skills
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Total score (Max 80)
Strategically Lead Your Matrix
by:
• Seeing the future first and being at the right
place before the right time
• Forecasting hindsight
• Rehearsing the future
• Starting at the end , not at the beginning start with a clear mental picture of where
you/your organization would like to be in,
say, 3 years’ time...
MBC
• MBC does not stand have to stand for
Management by Crisis.
• Instead make it stand for:
• MBC – Management by Caring
• MBC - Management by Compassion
• MBC – Management by Cooperation
• MBC – Management by Coalition
Team work makes the Dream
work
• Don’t be a goose and go it alone. Remember the
awesome power of a team of geese flying!
• Instead of distinguishing between Leaders and
Managers in your team, treat them all as VIPs
(Vision Imbued Persons).
• Develop strategies to transform any bad
leaders/players into Great Team Leaders/Players
Bad Leaders V Great Leaders
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Bad
Only Talk the Talk
Create POWs
MBWA
Walk around in 0s
Are Busy
Kill Initiative
Busy Scheming
Great
Talk, Walk and Stalk
Create VIPs
MABW
Pause to Think & Act
Are Productive
Encourage Innovation
Busy Inspiring
Bad V Great Leaders (contd.)
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Bad
MBF
Gather Information
Single Focus only
Attention to detail
Bottom Line only
Lean and Mean
Great
MBF
Gather Intelligence
Bifocal Vision
+ The Big Picture
+ The Top Line- Vision
Lean and Keen
Bad V Great Leaders (contd.)
Bad
Great
• Try to Forecast
Foresee the future
the Future
• React to the Futures Invent the kind of Futures
created by others
they want
• Try to change ahead Change the times
of the times
• Defenders of the Past. Architects of the Future
Keep the Dream Alive
• Team Work makes the Dream Work
• Teams need Shared Dreams to help all
members to pull together at the same time
in the same direction
• Dreams need Teams to help make their
Dreams come true
• Dream Big Dreams which are (slightly)
beyond your grasp.
Vision for your Organization
• “The last thing IBM needs right now is a
Vision.”
Louis Gerstner, Chairman of IBM. July 1993.
• “What IBM needs most right now is a Vision.”
Louis Gerstner, Chairman of IBM, stated in IBM’s
1995 Annual Report.
• Meanwhile at Microsoft Bill Gates’ Vision was:
“To have our software in every computer in the
world.”
Peter Drucker and others on
Visions
“I do not forecast – I merely see what is
visible, but not yet seen.” Peter Drucker.
“Only those who can see the invisible can do
the impossible.” Norman Vincent Peale.
“Where there is no vision the people perish.”
Proverbs 29:18.
What is your Vision for your
organization?
• It should be as clear as your profit goals.
• It should describe what your organization
will look, feel, sound, taste and smell like
in, say,3 years’ time.
• It should point the way to the top of the hill.
• It should meet the Goose Bump Test.
• It should imbue staff with a sense of
urgency and excitement.
Difference between a Vision and
a Mission Statement
• A Vision is a definite picture of a desired
future.
• A Mission statement conveys to staff why
we want to achieve the stated Vision. It
should give staff a sense of purpose and
meaning as to why they should perform
their duties to the very best of their ability.
Mission statements convey your
over-arching goals
• Sure you want to make money in your
business. Making money is a powerful goal
but if staff are to give of their best then they
must feel that they are somehow helping to
make a better world.
• How are you trying to make a better
world?
• Does it meet the Turn On Test?
Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
• Vision: To be the premier foreign service –
the vanguard of Singapore’s external
interests
• Mission: To enhance the security and
prosperity of Singapore through
excellence in diplomacy.
UNSW Institute of
Administration’s Dining Room
• Vision: To make every person feel
comfortable in a homely atmosphere.
• Mission: To restore a state of well-being to
all our diners through fine quality
dining and friendly service.
What is your organization’s
Mission
• IBM - selling computers or solutions to
problems?
• The Red Cross – collecting money or
helping the needy?
• Kodak – selling films or capturing
memories?
• Revlon – selling cosmetics or hope?
• Tidswells – selling super or peace of mind?
Suggested outline for crafting a
Mission Statement
Our mission is to……………………………
……………………………………………
…………………………………………….
through/by…………………………………..
……………………………………………….
……………………………………………….
(aim to draft it in less than 25 words. It should
meet the 3 am Test.)
IBM Australia’s failure in the
1980s
“I guess we were too preoccupied with what
we had rather than with what we could be
doing. We weren’t watching closely enough
to what what was happening around us.”
Brian Finn, MD of IBM Australia (February
1990)
Secret of Success
• Remember your people
• Make everyone in your team feel as if they
are helping you build a cathedral and not:
just laying bricks
working for a living
putting in time
Leading Your Matrix
• Don’ just aim to survive.
• Instead choose to thrive.
• THRIVE is an acrostic for:
(see the next slide)
THRIVE spells:
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Think positive, big, creative and strategic.
Helicopter: suspend judgment and RATO.
Recognition, reprimand and praise.
Involve your staff by participation, etc.
Vision: Never lose sight of the light on the
hill.
• Enthusiasm: remember what the last 4
letters in the word ENTHUSIASM stand
for.
The Meetings Matrix
Leading Your Matrix
Strategic Thinking
Presenter:
Joshua Owen MBA,BEc,FAICD,FCPA,CMAHRI,etc.,etc
Accredited Professional Speaker with the National Speakers Association
of Australia
Australia’s Leading Corporate Stretch
Joshua.Owen@ovations.com.au Ph. 02 9818 6622