Leadership Consulting

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Leadership Consulting

• Aric Hall

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Background

• 13 College Degrees
• Overcoming difficult circumstances
• Familiarity with variety of organizational
  settings and leadership settings
• Universities
• Corporations
• Cadet Programs
• Criminal Justice

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Background, cont.

• Corporate Whistleblower
• Independent and Unique Research
• My own work/involvement with building
  relationships, both one-on-one and in
  organizations
• Unique and in depth leadership hypotheses and
  research ideas, to be addressed later

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Leadership Philosophy

• Understand the Leadership Context, first
• Leaders and Leadership vary per the context
• Battlefield (your life is in the hands of the guy
  next to you, and the stakes are highest)
• Boardroom (power politics, vie for control)
• Coaching / Mentoring Relationships (one-on-one)
• Congressional Committee (competition within a
  team)
• Athletic Sports (competition between teams)
• Leading a Parade (follow-the leader)
• Lead Surgeon (high task competence, with
  specialists)
• Politicians (pure politics, high level of PR)
• Correctional Officer (where followers must obey)
• Coordinator of Volunteers (obedience is optional)

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Leadership Philosophy, cont.

• Focus on the relationship
• (The Interpersonal Level)
• Trust
• Respect
• Dignity
• Confidence/Confidentiality
• Accept Win-Lose Solutions
• (The Organizational Level)
• Focus on the Goal Mission
• Win-Win is contrary to the mission purpose
• Do Not Focus on making everyone happy

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Leadership Philosophy, cont.

• Leadership Consulting are Team efforts
• Not to be confused with Team Management
• Organization of Professionals
• Team of Specialists, each with unique talent
• Leadership is a role
• Leadership may move around as needed
• Not a power play each person supports others
• Not a position
• Leadership is a process

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Leadership Philosophy, cont.

• Leadership Requires
• Technical/Task/Job Competence
• To be effective, a leader must have know-how for
  the job, task, and organization at hand
• Leadership must be engrained in Culture
• Organizational Culture shows where the
  commitments and true leadership beliefs are
• Organizational Culture reflects the real
  leadership values of those in charge

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Leadership Philosophy, cont.

• Ethical Leadership
• Positive or desirable leadership requires ethics
• Hitler was an effective leader, but not a
  desirable or positive one
• Ethical leadership depends upon honor,
  character, integrity, and principles
• Leaders do the right thing, not what is popular

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Leadership Philosophy, cont.
Leadership is Passionate

• It is
• Persistent
• Devoted
• Uncompromising
• Unwavering
• Unapologetic
• Commitment

• It is not
• entered into half-cocked
• merely a fair-weather activity

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Leadership Theory

• Personal Leadership Theory can be derived from my
  own beliefs and philosophy, and it includes
  material articulated by others
• Transformational Leadership
• Leaders and Followers leading, changing, and
  growing together, for the benefit of each other
  and the organization

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Leadership Theory, cont.

• Servant Leadership
• (from Greenleaf and the Bible)
• Leaders lead best by serving, supporting, and
  providing for others, helping them do their job
• Take care of your people, and they will take care
  of you and the company not the other way around
• Servant leaders are not power-hungry.
• Rather than trampling others to get to the top,
  servant leaders take people to the top with them
  or assist others in getting there

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Leadership Theory, cont.

• Risk Leadership
• (Brungardt and Crawford)
• Leadership may not reflect the majority view
• Leadership is often a minority interest
• Leadership can be from the bottom-up, from those
  with the best information, those who do the work,
  and those who want to make change
• Risk Leadership reflects the upside-down
  organizational chart
• Risk Leadership reflects the shadow organization
  or informal organization
• Risk Leadership is manifested by self-empowerment

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Leadership Theory, cont.

• Twice-Born Leaders
• (Zaleznik and Bennis)
• Twice-born leaders have a feeling of profound
  separateness, working in organizations but not
  belonging to them
• Twice-borns have overcome trials, adversities, or
  trauma (disease, child abuse, house fires,
  poverty, etc)
• Rather than developing into sadistic killers,
  they overcame and developed a predisposition to
  leadership greatness
• They develop a persistence and determination, not
  giving up easily, not quitting when the paycheck
  quits, and showing a resolve to outlast everyone
  else
• Twice-borns are affected and developed by their
  environmental context, but they are self-invented

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Leadership Theory, cont.

• Leadership is not the domain of Executives
• Every executive has published a book, babbling
  about leadership. The assumption is that he must
  be a leader, since he made it to the top. But,
  he could have gotten their through politics or
  corruption.
• A corporate webpage that has a button labeled
  Our Leadership links you to the executives.
  Says who that they are leaders?

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Leadership Theory, cont.

• Leadership on the Inter-personal level
• Leadership research must be done on the
  inter-personal level
• Leadership is one-on-one
• Leadership is at the bottom of the organizational
  chart
• Leadership is a Relationship
• Followers are not just submissive subordinates
• They are part of the leadership relationship
• Follow Your Leader is a cop-out for
  self-appointed, wanna-be leaders

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Leadership Theory, cont.

• Leadership crosses Organizational Boundaries
• There is no one right way to lead.
• The best leadership varies from one setting to
  another.
• However, leadership principles and the foundation
  for leadership is like unto the Rock of
  Gibraltar. The foundation does not shift or
  vary.
• My experience, education, training, and knowledge
  of multiple organizational settings provides
  greater breadth and insight into leadership

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Other Leadership Research

• Male Psychology Org. Leadership
• This is not to suggest that only men lead
• It is potentially an immense area of study,
  taking male psychology from other settings and
  applying it to the corporate environment
• Combat, Competitive Sports, Fraternity Hazing,
  Torture, Dominance, Power-Wielding or Controlling
  behavior by managers, Cutthroat Competition, etc.
• The idea is to understand behavior, good or bad,
  and apply it to organizations and to channel that
  energy in a productive manner
• This is the parallel to womens studies, but
  here, mens studies is applied to organizations

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Leadership Parting Thoughts

• Leaders Lead Alone
• Leaders are like eagles, they do not flock, you
  find them one at a time H. Ross Perot
• Leaders are Focused and Determined
• Compromise serves to build consensus, and
  consensus is the absence of leadership
  Margaret Thatcher
• Leaders Do Not have to Identify Themselves
• Having to tell someone you are a leader is like
  having to tell them you are a woman If you have
  to tell them, you probably arent one Margaret
  Thatcher

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Leadership Parting Thoughts, cont.

• Leaders seek Win-Lose Solutions
• Its not a matter of whether you win or lose,
  Its a matter of whether you win Donald Trump
• Leaders are entrepreneurs, focused on the end
  goal of winning
• There is no substitute for victory Gen.
  Douglas MacArthur