Transcript Level Three Leadership Final Project

Level Three Leadership
Final Project
Iskandar Zabikhodjayev
March, 2007
Introduction
• Purpose
– Major course insights
– Future reference
• Contents
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Life’s Story
VABEs
Life’s Dreams
Personal Charter
Leadership Model
Life’s Story
• Born in Uzbekistan in 1977
• Responsibility from early age
– Busy parents, young sister
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Poor grades in elementary school
Educational success and liability
Break-up of USSR – test of values
Education abroad – test of values
Creation of electric car
Work at the bank
– Succeeded in introduction of new service
– Hated to deal with bureaucracy
– Succeeded in creation of new division
• Darden
Key Events Table
Key Event
Early responsibility
School
Impact
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- 5 / +5
Electric car
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Example to everybody
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Break-up of USSR
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University
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Study Abroad
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Bank experience
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Key Learning
Like Independence
Failure is not accepted
I can succeed through hard work
Need leads to creativity
Like to create
People will not expect less
Not free any more
People change in new environment
Change is not always good
Good education is premise to success
To test your values see the World
Choice theory works
Like to create/establish
Hate bureaucracy
Like to help people
My VABEs
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A man is a master of his/her success
Emphasis on strengths and hard work leads to success
Never lend money to your friends
There is a soul-mate for everyone
People know what is right or wrong for them; you just need to
help them discover it
Do not do unless you know what you are doing
Kindness is unforgettable
Helping others will bring meaning to one’s life
True love is a key to happiness
Stick to your principles
Integrity prevents from going sideways
Value friendship
Love and talk to your parents while you can
Analysis of VABEs
Leadership
Family
1. Man => success
2. Strength + hard
work
3. People know what’s
right for them
4. Know what you’re
doing
5. Stick to your
principles
6. Integrity
1. Soul-mate for
everyone
2. True love is key to
happiness
3. Love and talk to your
parents while you
can
Social
1. Never lend to friends
2. Kindness is
unforgettable
3. Helping others means
4. Value friendships
Life’s Dreams - External
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What do I want to do and be at age 40?
– Build a successful consulting practice
– Be wealthy
– Teach
– Build a good family
Life’s Dreams - Internal
DREAM
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How do I want to feel
on a daily basis?
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REVISIT THE DREAM
PREPARATION
Moments of
What will it take to recapture
that feeling?
Flow/Resonance
OBSTACLES
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What prevents you
from feeling that way?
What does it take to
feel that way?
Internal Dream
I want to feel meaningful by serving a bigger
goal and being rewarded for it. I also want to
feel intense and independent (“freedom to”)
like I’m running a 100 meters distance on a
smooth track for the World record.
Preparation
Action
Reason
Persistence
- Mastery requires determination
Hard work
- Repetition leads to mastery
Schooling
- Provides tools
Gaining experience
- Helps avoid unnecessary mistakes
Obstacles
• Fear of failure
– Risk for wealth and success
• Fear of rejection
– Obligation “People expect me to perform
at this level”
Revisiting the Dream
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Answer following questions:
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Why am I doing what I am doing?
What did I want to feel when I decided to start doing it?
What will it take to regain that dream?
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Allocate certain amount to saving a/c and move on
Talk to my customers, see how excited they are and I
will love what I do and people would love me for that.
Personal Charter
LEADERSHIP
Strategy
Mission
Goals
Vision
Values
1. Mission
Statement
2. Vision Statement
3. Values Statement
4. Strategy
5. Operating Goals and Milestones
6. Leadership
Mission Statement
To help people solve their financial
needs
Vision
Professional life
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Own financial consulting practice in Uzbekistan
Cover major cities of my country
Serve entrepreneurs and small size businesses that do not have
resources or skills to manage their financial needs
Offer services in financial planning, accounting, business plan
preparation, risk management, and taxation
Have six years of operational history
Begin expansion into Kazakhstan
Teach a course on entrepreneurship or financial management
Personal life
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Have two children
Remain a loyal and loving husband
Build a house with a garden of cherry and peach trees
Have a dog
Organize family gatherings
Core Leadership Values
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Understand before implement
Hard work will be rewarded
Be humble
Respect your teammates
Find what people want and help them get it
Consult integrity if confused
Strategy
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Phase 1
Education
Experience
Capital
Research market
Find partner
Family
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Phase 2
1. Purchase a firm
2. Form a team for my firm
3. Organizational culture
4. Systems design
5. Customer base
6. Expansion in Uzbekistan
7. Family
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Years
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Phase 3
1. Expansion to
Kazakhstan
2. Family
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Operating Goals for 2007
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Graduate from Darden School of Business
Join Financial Advisory Practice of Ernst & Young
Celebrate the birth of my first child
Have our parents come visit us
Start working on a business plan for my company
Leadership Model
Leader
Strategic
thinking
Developing
influence
Commitment to strategy
Task
Others
Design
Bonding to
organization
Managing change
Organization
Conclusion
• Wrap-up
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Life’s Story
VABEs
Life’s Dreams
Personal Charter
Leadership Model
• Concluding thoughts
– Thank You!