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Presentation Notes:

Global Leadership

What does it mean to be a leader?

· An influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes and outcomes that reflect their shared purposed.

But what does that really mean? First some back ground.

Agenda:

· History – Past – Local, small nonmoving populations

· Present Global, large moving populations

· A breakdown of the Definition

First: 2 paradigms

· top down, stability, hero

· horizontal, crisis management, humble man

Management vs. Leadership conflict of today

First paradigm seems to imply that managers were needed to ensure that short term goals are met in an organized and predictable manner. People where seen as commodities and units to be managed. Management is understood as inflexible. This is the Old way.

Second paradigm seems to imply that there is a measure of unpredictability and that leading people (with all their human emotions) toward a long term vision and empowering them to solve short term goals is more appropriate for today’s economy. Leadership is understood to be flexible. This is the Modern Way.

· One hundred years ago the majority of people in western society just never left their county of residence, not for work and not for play. Today most statistics would tell you that the majority of Americans drive 30 -60 minutes to work easily taking them into the next county or across several. Today we can pick up a phone, boot up our computers, and travel in a digital environment across the world. This is in fact a common thing for people to conceive of, hear about, and even dream of as well as do, directly or indirectly. The best example of people’s indirect relationship to world travel is one’s trip to Wal-Mart.

Today there is an increased potential for a diversity of situations

· occur in marketplace economics

· at work

· our own communities

First paradigm – western ethnocentric and self centered

Second paradigm – recognizes cultural influences and embraces them

This requires the recognition of the Roles that are required to complete a job or task and effective leadership needs to be able fill these roles within a cultural context that is no longer guaranteed to be western.

Example:

· There are emerging leaders in “self built” housing on the outskirts of Nairobi in East Africa, Mexico City, and Sao Paulo in Brazil. In Sao Paulo and the urban area surrounding boast a population that exceeds 16 million people. The streets in these make shift neighborhoods are complete with non-government regulated markets, black market power distribution, and self organized sanitation policies and structures.

With half of the world’s population earning a dollar a day or less it is probable that the future leaders of the world will come from a more diverse background than currently existing today. An understanding of this diversity will play a great part in the “influence relationship among leaders and followers” that is within our definition of a leader.

Conflict Dynamic:

New paradigm conflict is natural and healthy, this was not always so.

Often leaders have a shared purpose but culturally different ways to achieve this purpose or reasons for having this shared purpose. In order to achieve this shared purpose compromises and understanding must occur. Leadership as opposed to management is open to these compromises and understandings.

Example:

· Everyone would like for world poverty to be alleviated. In India the Grameen Bank http://www.grameen-info.org/ has brought micro financing to the impoverished and globally ostracized. If they did not have an understanding of the socioeconomic conditions and gender roles of women in Indiana society the success would not have been possible for non-profit Grameen Bank and for the many women in rural India who are now contributing to the uplifting of many of India’s poorest people.

Agenda:

· History – Past – Local, small nonmoving populations

· Present Global, large moving populations

· A breakdown of the Definition

Conclusion:

Hopefully the definition of what it means to be a leader is clearer.

First it implies that there are human relationships involved between leaders and followers that must be understood personally and culturally.

Second it implies that for shared purposes to be achieved and thus change to be made the person(s) who understand these relationships and helps to achieve these shared purposes is using the skills of leadership.

A leader is one who effects change for the benefit of more than just him or herself, by understanding those that he or she is affecting.

Fall DLC African Naturalists, Nairobi, Cameroon

I tried to learn from them instead of having them learn from me.

If I could have changed anything in the course it would be to work into the curriculum a project with students from another country.

· There is diversity in the US, but not enough to create real conflict

· It would have also added technical skills that are lacking within the OLS curriculum

Career Rookie Online Career Fair

First post since my internship at the Indiana Dunes Learning Center which has kept me busy the last few months. But man more on that later.

Unisfair's CareerRookie Online Carreer Fair is going on today September, 29th and boy is it an Epic Success! The fair on Facebook click here for registration and event info

Let me explain why because I have no idea how many people are actually attending. I think it is a sucess because it is a revolutionary way to interact on the web. Now not revolutionary in that it is a new concept, but revolutionary in the fact that they are doing the concept.

They have created a virtual campus so to speak with pavillions and booths within the pavillions for an enduser to visit based on thier needs. There is an engineering pavillion, sales pavillion, and an internship pavillion. The navigation is very intuitive and the ability for the involved companies to share themselves with you using chat, commercial type video, and flash animated information boxes works pretty good on this average machine that I have.

My only disappointment is the booths for which I can visit, my apologies, but I walked out of a career fair at Purdue University because they are only offering jobs with large comppanies who I feel do more harm than good on this planet. Companies such as Dow Chemicals, Kellogs, and Sunoco are the ones present at Unisfair's CareerRookie Online Career Fair. (disclaimer: this is only my opinion and values here which may or may not be valid or important to others, but i think they are)

Personally I want to work for Unisfair and persuade them to bring in smaller more environmentally responsible and socially responsible companies. I am also wondering why in the world are they not doing it in Silverlight! And who is. Quite personally I imagine Bono doing music concert in Africa being smoothstreamed live over the internet with all kinds of local African community groups sharing with the world their projects and the impact that U.S. decisions are indirectly or directly having on their welfare. And also sharing with the world thier success stories and innovative spirit.





Now let me share with you a quick photoshopped images of what it looks like to be in the CareerRookie Online Career Fair so you can see for yourself why you should check out Unisfair's CareerRookie Career Fair if only to see how it should be done.





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