Level 5 Leadership Written by: Jim Collins Presented by: Laura Cooper

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Level 5 LeadershipWritten by Jim
CollinsPresented by Laura Cooper

• You can accomplish anything in life, provided
  that you do not mind who gets the credit.
• Harry S. Truman

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Jim Collins

• Faculty member at Stanford Graduate School of
  Business
• Served as senior executive at CNN International
• Founded a management laboratory in Boulder,
  Colorado conducts multi year research projects
• Student and teacher of lasting great companies
• Business consultant, author, lecturer on
  business growth and sustainability

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Jim Collins

• Books
• How the Mighty Fall And Why Some Companies Never
  Give In
• Good to Great
• Built to Last
• Good to Great and the Social Sectors
• Beyond Entrepreneurship

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Level 5 Hierarchy

• LEVEL 5 - Level 5 Executive
• LEVEL 4 - Effective Leader
• LEVEL 3 - Competent Manager
• LEVEL 2 - Contributing Team Member
• LEVEL 1 - Highly capable individual

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Examples of Level 5 Executives

• Abraham Lincoln
• Darwin Smith Kimberly Clark
• Colman Mockler - Gillette

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Ambition- Level 5 VS. Comparison

• Level 5 leaders have ambition for the company and
  its success
• Level 5 leaders set up company for success in the
  future
• Comparison leaders have ambition for themselves
• Comparison leaders set up company for failure in
  the future

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Modesty Level 5 VS. Comparison

• Level 5 leaders do not promote themselves
• Level 5 leaders are not interested in
  credit/recognition
• Comparison leaders are very I-centric
• Comparison leaders want credit/recognition in
  magazines, interviews, photographs

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Level 5 Unwavering Resolve

• Level 5 is not only about humility and
• self-less ness
• Level 5 always does whatever it takes to make the
  company great
• Fire Relatives
• End Lasting Traditions
• Fight off corporate raiders

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The Window and Mirror Effect

• Level 5 leaders look out the window to give
  credit outside themselves in good situations
• Level 5 leaders look in the mirror to take
  responsibility in bad situations
• Level 5 leaders tend to attribute luck for
  success rather than their own efforts

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Common Mistakes Companies Make

• Select over-the-top dazzling celebrity leaders
  and over look quiet modest Level 5 leaders
• Thinking a high-profile outside leader can come
  in and shake up the place
• 10 of 11 Level 5 CEOs came from inside the company

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Can You Learn to be a Level 5 Leader?

• Two types of people those who do not have the
  seed of Level 5 and those who do
• Without Seed Work will always be about what they
  get fame, money, power
• With Seed These can evolve under the right
  circumstances to be Level 5 self-reflection,
  personal development, a mentor

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Related Articles

• Leadership Style Orientations of Senior
  Executives in Australia
• Autocratic, democratic, Inspirational, and
  laissez-faire
• Leadership Hubbard, Gattung and Tindall
• Mix of warm-hearted, cool-headed and hard-nosed
• The impact of Leadership Styles on Four Variables
  of Executives Workforce
• Commitment, satisfaction, communication, and
  effectiveness

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Personal Experience

• Personally I do not know any level 5 leaders, nor
  do I work for any level 5 leaders
• In my experience most executives/managers are
  just looking for the next big thing or check

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Resources

• Collins, Jim. "Level 5 Leadership." The
  Organizational Behavior Reader. 8th ed. Upper
  Saddle River, NJ Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.
  474-92. Print.
• Jim Collins - About Jim. (n.d.). Jim Collins -
  Home. Retrieved March 22, 2011, from
  http//www.jimcollins.com/about-jim.html
• Ekaterini, G. (2010). The impact of leadership
  styles on four variables of executives workforce.
  International Journal of Business and Management,
  5(6), 3. Retrieved from http//ezproxy.mtsu.edu/lo
  gin?urlhttp//search.proquest.com/docview/8215445
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• Frykberg, K. (2004). LeadershipHubbard, gattung
  and tindall on warm-hearted, cool-headed and
  hard-nosed leadership New Zealand Management, ,
  37. Retrieved from http//ezproxy.mtsu.edu/login?u
  rlhttp//search.proquest.com/docview/201649686?ac
  countid4886
• Hunt, J. B. (2010). Leadership style orientations
  of senior executives in australia Senior
  executive leadership profiles An analysis of 54
  australian top managers. Journal of American
  Academy of Business, Cambridge, 16(1), 207.
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