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Engineers as Future Leaders
Wali Zahid | ceo, Skill City bahrainNED University Karachi, Pakistan: 3 October 2013
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Who’s Wali?
Asian businesses have known Wali for his 20-year work
on business leadership and executive coaching
Leads the longest-running Train-The-Trainer program |
13th year | 16+ Asian locations | 1,000+ trainers
Taught MBA courses at IBA, ZABIST, CBM, UMT, IIU, Dow
Board/Advisory @ LCWU, Indus Valley, CBM, PSTD
At heart: a disruptor | challenging schooling,
performance, training efficacy, leadership readiness
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World’s first paper-free TTT
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That’s us on web!
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That’s us on FB! Like us
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Advising NS government
Was flown in to advise the new Nawaz Sharif
government on turning around state-owned
enterprises before the cabinet took oath!
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Leads CEO leadership workshop
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2050 interview – Urdu Digest
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CEO Summit with Shahbaz Sharif
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At Pakistan Vision 2025 meeting
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Let’s talk about you, engineers!
You create or recreate the world!
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You create this
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You create this
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You create this
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You create this
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You create this
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Engineers are clever!
German Engineering Arab Technology clip
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Impatient Gen Y’ers / Millennials
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Three parts of the talk
1. Where the world is heading – technologically,
economically
2. How is it easy or challenging for engineers to
be leaders
3. How you can get ready to lead by using
Wali’s Will-Skill Matrix
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All of this
Through visual content
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Part 1: Where the world is heading
The world is connected today in ways that are
shattering traditional communications concepts
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Technologically
Changes at exponential speed
Gen Y: Impatient – want it now, not five minutes from now!
Facebook and Youtube replace everything
Did you know? clip
Microsoft vision clip
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What is out
1. Teachers, teaching, knowledge, instruction
2. Attentive, disciplined students (not made any
more!)
3. Degrees (Google HR - no GPA, no interviews!)
4. Schools & universities (replaced by MOOCS, Khan
Academy, FutureLearn)
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End of teaching? Edudemic
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Learning, not teaching! Wharton
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End of college degrees: HBR
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GPA & interviews useless: Google
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Khan: Teacherless classrooms
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MOOCs replacing unis
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Free education globally
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MOOCs rising
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Even UK unis following!
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Economically
Pakistan is one of the top 20 economies in the
world in 2050*
*Goldman Sachs
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World in 2010
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World in 2050
Goldman Sachs: Jan 2012 report
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Bordering 2 giants – China & India!
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Just one glimpse
Retail sector in Pakistan – CNN clip
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Socially/demographically
We are becoming a richer and healthier world
Muslim populations in the West are increasing
at a rate that it will change the European
cultural landscape by 2050
Hans Rosling clip
Church clip on Muslim Demographics
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Part 2: Engineers as leaders
Expectations from the world
Your personality type
Challenges
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Expectations from the world
The American Society for Engineering Education
The Engineer of 2020 Project
A high-risk, high-pay-off approach for the
future of US engineering education
9 attributes
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9 attributes of engineer of 2020!
1. Strong analytical skills
2. Practical ingenuity, creativity; innovator
3. Good communication skills
4. Business, management skills
5. High ethical standards, professionalism
6. Dynamic/agile/resilient/flexible
7. Lifelong learner
8. Able to put problems in their socio-technical and operational context
9. Adaptive leader
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Role of engineers in the economy
If you want good manufacturing jobs, one thing you could do is graduate more engineers.
Jeffery Immelt, CEO General Electric
More S&P 500 CEOs obtain their bachelors degree in engineering than in any other field.
US National Academy of Science, 2007
In the emerging economy of the new century, the team with the most engineers wins .
Director Maine Heritage Policy Center
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A world with issues
Four key issues
Energy
Transport
Climate change
Waste disposal
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Solution depends on?
1. Technology
2. People
Q: Which side engineers are good at?
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Technology/People mix!
Innovation: Change through technology
Leadership: Change through people
Technical ability x leadership = Impact!
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Our numbers maybe right, but…
Math vs trust clip
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Engineers are left-brained?
Business
leadership
is a
whole-brain
function!
A AnalysisD DecisionsE EvaluationL LogicN NumbersW WordsV VerbalMemorySurgeon/Accountant/ Lawyer / EngineerRational
C ColourI IdeasG GesturesA ArtR RibbonF FeelingsI ImpulseImageRhythmEmotional
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Engineers on the RIDO scale
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Mostly, engineers are…
Left-brained
Introvert / need ‘alone’ time
Logical/rational/analytical
Practical (not very ‘creative’)
Structured/methodical/process-oriented
Functional expertise vs people skills?
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Two issues
1. Politics
2. Too much hard work!
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4 styles of political behaviour
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How people are promoted
Research: What takes you ahead at job?
Learning: What does this tell you? (Ashridge, UK)
Performance (work)
Image (reputation)
Exposure (visibility)
10%
30%
60%
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Part 3: Getting Ready!
How you can get ready to lead by using
Wali’s Will-skill Matrix
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Some useable examples
Did I say: Inspiring?
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How Steve Jobs did this
46 seconds clip
Lessons: changing the world?
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How Samsung does it!
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13 pivots of Samsung…1
1938 – Samsung started as a grocer
1. 1940s – groceries → noodles
2. 1950 – selling sugar
3. 1954 – largest woolen mill
4. Late 1950s - insurance and securities
5. 1960 – black & white TVs
6. 1980 – phone switch boards & fax systems
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13 pivots of Samsung…2
7. 1987 – founder dies; department stores, chemicals & logistics, paper/telecom and electronics
8. 1980 – investment in electronic facilities
9. 1990 – investing → construction
10. 1990s – downsizing and merging during recession
11. Late 1990s – largest memory chip manufacturer
12. 1995 – chips → LCDs; largest flat screen TV manufacturer
13. 2010 – LCDs → smartphones
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How a child does this
Indian tree fall clip
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Before anything, you need a goal
What do you want to achieve, say, in 5 years?
Take 3 minutes
Try as much clarity/foresight as you can
Be as ambitious/crazy as you can!
It doesn’t need to be about money
Tell people around you
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Your BIG goals?
What are they?
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How some others will use 5 years
The 5 years clip
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To achieve your goal
What you need is…
five BIG things
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The first two
1. Will
2. Skill
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Wali on will & skill
To succeed as a leader, engineers need
Willand
Skill
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Will & Skill
Will = desire,
hunger, drive,
ambition,
willingness, your
reason for being,
mindset
Skill = ability,
competence,
capability,
something you are
known for, niche,
skillset
Let’s watch a clip from Shaolin Soccer
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Wali’s Will-Skill Matrix v1
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The next two
3. Focus
4. Energy
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Focus-Energy Matrix
ENERGY High
Distraction40%
Procrastination30%
Purposefulness10%
Disengagement20%
High
FOCUS
Low
Bruch & Ghoshal study for Harvard Business Review
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Why focus matters?
Focus clip
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How disengagement wastes you
Boring job clip
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Procrastination/distraction
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The fifth
5. The Flow
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The Flow?
MihalyCsikszentmihalyi: Good business: Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning
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The Flow
David Beckham clip
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All of this, with team work
Teamwork clip
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In summary…
Engineers will be ready to lead if you:
1. Have a worthwhile goal
2. Have a high will and a high skill
3. Work with high focus and high energy
4. Move to a higher-level challenge (flow) when things become routinised
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Before we end, the final 3 pieces
What leads to success clip
Of eight things, what is your pick?
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The right thing vs the easy thing!
Rise and shine clip
This clip will guide you how to create global
success and become Olympians!
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Finally, remember
Every time you fall clip
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Thank you!
Wali Zahid
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