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How leaders catalyse large-scale change

Josie Gibson The Catalyst Network

3 June, 2015 - Global Innovation Day, Bilbao, Spain p10

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Ignazio Loiolakola (Ignatius of Loyola)

1491-1556 Knight, hermit, priest,

Jesuit Founder Bilbao, Spain

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Maria Atkinson 2015

Global sustainability pathfinder, non-executive

director, angel investor Sydney, Australia

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Catalyst Noun

1. A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent

chemical change. 2. A person or thing that precipitates an event.

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Source: Google definitions  

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It’s not easy being a Catalyst.

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But we need them. Now more than ever.

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No ordinary disruption ‘This is no ordinary disruption. We have reached the point

where a confluence of trends, digital disruption, shifts in the locus of economic power, globalisation and

demographic change … are casting our world into a completely different reality.’

Catherine Livingstone AO Chair, Telstra, and President, Business Council of Australia

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Leadership crisis? ‘A startling 86% of respondents agree that we have

a leadership crisis in the world today.’ Outlook on the Global Agenda 2015

World Economic Forum

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Leadership B.S. ‘In spite of decades of research, teaching, writing,

blogging, numerous leadership books and articles, an enormous expenditure on leadership development, TED talks etc, the evidence is clear – the leadership industry

in all its forms and incarnations has completely failed.’ Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford University p10

*Stanford Graduate School of Business and AGSM/Unilever Distinguished Visitor

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Symptoms Low employee engagement, loss of trust, stalled

productivity, token innovation

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Sources: Gallup. WEF, Edelman, OECD et al

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85% of leaders destroy or fail to create value.

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15% see the world differently.

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Sources: Cook-Greuter, Torbert et al

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Catalysts… • Trade on wisdom

• Recognise assumptions • See and appreciate multiple perspectives

• Are systemic thinkers who see the whole system • Live in the now…and the emerging future

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Catalysts… • Are adaptive and natural collaborators

• Cross boundaries and bend rules • Are generous and humble

• Have deep resilience and perseverance • Often don’t self-identify as ‘leaders’

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Catalysts transform how we think, work and live.

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They’re not all famous. There are Catalysts in this room.

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Sometimes they just need to be connected.

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The Catalyst Network • We’ve created a unique community to bring Catalysts

together to learn, connect and create • We work with organisations to identify and develop

their internal Catalysts www.thecatalystnetwork.co

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Nelson Mandela 1918-2014

Anti-apartheid activist, politician, philanthropist,

first President of post-apartheid South Africa

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Courage ‘When an old culture is dying, the new is created,

by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.’ Rudolf Bahro

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*East German dissident and philosopher

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Gracias!

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Josie Gibson and Julie Birtles The Catalyst Network

www.thecatalystnetwork.co

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How leaders catalyst large-scale change References in presentation delivered to Global Innovation Day, Bilbao, 3 June 2015

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• Catherine Livingstone speech to the National Press Club, Australia http://www.bca.com.au/newsroom/national-press-club-address-by-catherine-livingstone • WEF Outlook on the Global Agenda 2015 http://www.weforum.org/reports/outlook-global-agenda-2015 •  Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford University http://jeffreypfeffer.com/ • Gallup engagement survey – US economy http://www.gallup.com/poll/181289/majority-employees-not-engaged-despite-gains-2014.aspx • Edelman Trust Barometer http://www.edelman.com/2015-edelman-trust-barometer/ • Tim Kastelle: ‘Zappos just pulled off the boldest change management move ever’ http://timkastelle.org/blog/2015/05/zappos-just-pulled-off-the-boldest-change-management-move-ever/ • OECD on employment prospects for G20 http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/media-centre/press-releases/WCMS_305429/lang--en/index.htm • David Rooke and William Torbert: ‘Seven transformations of leadership’ https://hbr.org/2005/04/seven-transformations-of-leadership • Susan Cook-Greuter: ‘The development of nine action logics’ http://nextstepintegral.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/The-development-of-action-logics-Cook-Greuter.pdf

www.thecatalystnetwork.co