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1. Leadership & the New/Young Professional
MACPA
CPA Summit
BWI Hilton
June 2, 2011
Presented by:
Tom Hood, CPA.CITP
CEO
Maryland Association of CPAs
Business Learning Institute
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2. Why are we here?
The tornado of changes from CPA Vision Project circa 2000

3. Welcome to the Extreme Future!
1. Increased speed;
2. Increased complexity
3. Increased risk
4. Faster pace of change
5. Surprises everywhere
and everyday
Dr. James Canton – author of The Extreme Future

4. Humans are fundamentally
“sight” creatures
We need longer
sightlines during
periods of rapid
change
And the power of
making our
thinking visible to
others…

5. How can we make What
sense of the possibilities
changing & do we see?
complex world? What direction
should we go?
What does What new
it mean to future can we
us? create?
How is the
world
changing?
Who do we
need to enlist
to help us?

6. How Leadership gets it done is changing!
From: Command & Control
To: Connect & Collaborate

7. Leader as facilitator of powerful questions
The four most
important words
for organizations
are, “what do you
think?”
‐ Tom Peters

8. We chose to learn how to
harness the winds of change

9. Workforce & Demographics – Are you
ready for the shift change?
Email Facebook
Generation Generation
• 5 Generations at work
• Work-life balance line
• The Digital divide

10. Welcome to the New Normal! The Workplace
of the future is here
1. Freedom – The freedom to work when
and where you want
2. Customization – My job my life
3. Scrutiny – I know what you did last night
4. Integrity – Be a good company to work for
5. Collaboration – Teamwork
6. Entertainment – Work should be fun
7. Speed – Let’s make things happen now!
8. Innovation – Let me invent
“…when technology, demographics and global economics collide you are faced with a
category six (6) business revolution”
– Don Tapscott & Anthony Williams - Wikinomics

11. Put the odds in your favor
Leadership = Multiplication
•15 X – ROI strategy as
process & alignment
• 8 X – Engagement & Trust
•3 X – Positivity
•20X – Return on Culture

12. Zappos – the future of work

14. Leadership in the new normal
Three Critical Competencies
Built on strengths
Strengths- and positivity
Future-minded Based Self-awareness
and flexible mindset
Leadership In the moment
Ability to make
your thinking Strategic
visible to others Thinking
Engage your
Collaborative and
curious with the ability
Network
to ask powerful questions Boundary
Crossing
Capable of engaging and
Inspiring people
AICPA Leadership Academy – October 4-7, 2010 – Meeting summary by Business Learning Institute 14

15. Turn your Flywheel
1. Make your thinking visible to others
2. Collaboration and the power of we
3. Find your edge and focus on opportunities
and build on your strengths
4. Strategy as process – replicate and focus
on stakeholders

16. The only question for leaders
Have I made
you feel
stronger and
more capable?
Source: Emmanuel Gobillot -
LeaderShift

17. Tom Hood, CPA.CITP
CEO
Maryland Association of CPAs
Business Learning Institute
(443) 632‐2301
E‐mail tom@macpa.org
Web http://www.macpa.org
Blog http://www.cpasuccess.com
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