Lead by Letting Go: A Woman’s Advantage Thursday, June 27 at SAP in Palo Alto Most of the 89,000 leadership books offered on Amazon.com focus on traditional interpersonal leadership: leadership focused the relationships between leaders and followers. Interpersonal leadership sets up an expectation that leaders must be in dialog or at least in view of their followers. This style of interaction is less likely as work stretches across locations and company boundaries as we telecommute, crowdsource, and take on joint ventures. There are alternatives and complements to interpersonal leadership. Clear and meaningful tasks, goals, and technology tools supporting the organization’s direction can substitute or support interpersonal leadership. Hiring strategies can also play a role. Our likely future needs leadership via flexible systems of people, technology, and organizational practice. The ideas in The Plugged-In Manager: Get in Tune With Your People, Technology, and Organization to Thrive provide a jumping off point for learning to lead by letting go. Lead by Letting Go is Terri Griffith’s next book project and she expects that women have an advantage. Join us to hear about how women may be better at “plugged-in” and contribute to this work in progress.

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Lead By Letting Go:
A Woman’s Advantage
Terri L. Griffith, Ph.D.
Santa Clara University
TerriGriffith.com @TerriGriffith

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Lead By Letting Go:
A Prequel
How Why

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Let Go
Of A Book You Like

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Lead By Letting Go:
A Prequel
How Why

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How:
Mix
People, Technology, Org Process
Through Something That
Looks Like
Negotiation

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How to Be Plugged-In
So That You Can
Lead by Letting Go

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Why?

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Is Our World
More or Less
Complex?

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Given Complexity…
More or Less Control?

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Br J Sports Med 2005;39:799-804 doi:10.1136/bjsm.2005.020271
“It is a complex movement of the whole body…”

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Lead By Letting Go
Build flexible & fluid systems
Greater engagement, lower
costs, more innovation

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Let Go of What?
(Think Substitutes for Leadership, Kerr & Jermier)

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Link to Scott Cook Video

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Women
Have The
Advantage
Help me with examples as I go along

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Women’s Advantage:
Greater Focus on Interests of
Others

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Women’s Advantage:
Multitasking

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Even Mythbusters Says So:

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Women’s Advantage:
Creativity

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Rosa, José Antonio, William J.
Qualls, and Julie A. Ruth.
"Consumer creativity: Effects of
gender and variation in the
richness of vision and touch
inputs." Journal of Business
Research (2013).
Some mixed results,
but basically:

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Women’s Advantage:
Perspective Taking

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O’Brien, E.,
Konrath, S. H.,
Grühn, D., &
Hagen, A. L.
(2013). Empathic
concern and
perspective
taking: Linear
and quadratic
effects of age
across the adult
life span. The
Journals of
Gerontology
Series B:
Psychological
Sciences and
Social Sciences,
68(2), 168-175.

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Women’s Advantage:
Delegation & Participation
Bartol, K. M., Martin, D. C., & Kromkowski, J. A. (2003). Leadership and the glass ceiling: Gender and ethnic group influences on leader behaviors at
middle and executive managerial levels. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 9(3), 8-19.

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Lead By Letting Go
Build flexible & fluid systems
Greater engagement, lower
costs, more innovation

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Global Workforce:
Let Go Of
Interpersonal Leadership Focus
Stronger People & Systems

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Creative Commons:
Let Go Of
Copyright
Gain Broader Markets

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MOOCs:
Let Go Of
Ivy Covered Walls
Educate the World

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WaaS:
Let Go Of
Employment Boundaries
Manage Today’s Complexity
(Work as a Service)

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COIL:
Let Go Of
“The Idea That Ideas Only Originate
Inside the Firm”
Greater Innovation
David Cruickshank, Senior Director,
COIL via Twitter

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Lean Start-Up:
Let Go Of
Stealth Mode
Fail Faster to Succeed Sooner

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Co-Working:
Let Go Of
The Office
Gain $$, Inspiration, Recruiting Success

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ROWE:
Let Go Of
Work Method Control
Better Person/Work Fit
(Results Only Work Environment)

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Let Go Of
Routine
Focus On Innovation
“[We] had to get the transactions out of the control of the people so they could think. We
weren't bound by a box.... Whatever you can think, you can make it happen with the
technology.... If you can design a business process there is a set of technology tools to
automate that process so you can think of the next entrepreneurial act. When you are
involved in routine, you take away the intelligence of the people.”
Rhonda Winter, CIO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

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Evidence-Based Management
(e.g., Big Data)
Let Go Of Your Gut
Better Decisions

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http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1529

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How Do We Get There?

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Marcia Conner
@marciamarcia
Don’t Add Before You Subtract
Stop-Look-Listen

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How:
Mix
People, Technology, Org Process
Through Something That
Looks Like
Negotiation

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Leverage your leadership efforts
through better tasks, goals,
hiring, training, and technology

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Lead By Letting Go
Build flexible & fluid systems
Greater engagement, lower
costs, more innovation
Facilitate a meeting…

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