LEADERSHIP DNA
Armenian Project Management Association
Albert Poghosyan
What is Leadership?
The ability to positively influence people and systems to have a meaningful impact and achieve results
Very exact explanation…
So please disengage your autopilot now…
Would those I lead agree with my own assessment?
Do I have the courage to ask them?
Leading others begins by leading yourself
And then Your People will become
Loyal and committed
When They Are Convinced You Are
Worth Following
In Getting Them Towards Their Desired Future
They see your brand
through your passions
Your ethics speak through your actions
Your values are great
Your hopes are backed by action
You have the courage to make true decisions
You have the resilience to hang tough
Your friendship is important
And you’re fun to be with
―A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.‖
Anonymous
Core Leadership Skills
• Vision • Empowerment • Intuition • Self-understanding • Value congruence
Big Hairy Audacious Goal
―The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership – not natural or social 'forces' – are the prime movers in human affairs.‖
George Roche
So…―Are Leaders Born? Or Are They Made? Or Both?‖
Answers from
• Many think that "Leaders" are simply born with the DNA to lead. • Many others think that "Leadership" can be learned and grown with proper education and experience. • Some others think that it is a combination of the two that breeds the greatest leaders...
M. Wierzgac wrote: Leaders are made. Leaders become leaders in 1 of 3 ways: 1 - a crisis or event pushes them into leadership 2 - their personality leads them into it 3 - they choose to be a leader.
If they choose to become a leader, they also choose the depth of their training (some deep, some shallow).
• G. Krstulovic wrote: They are born to be made. • D. Prasad wrote: To me it's neither; they are self made with will and vision • A. Chaplin wrote: Leadership is learned. • B. Sanders wrote: There are those who are born and those who are taken out by there own troops.
• I. Babelli wrote: Leaders are made, by someone who gives them a chance. • R. Evans wrote: Both. I absolutely believe that leadership can be taught/learned.
• R. Iyer wrote: I presume you are asking in the context of a business organisation. Some take to leadership naturally, by learning and observing. Others can learn / or be taught this skill, if they wish to! In either case, the will to lead must come from within.
A. Bose wrote: Leaders are born. Not everyone can be a Leader. I would rather say Leaders are synonymous to "Great Communicators who have an aggressive attitude to win". Whether you motivate people, lead a team, or possess great negotiation skills, you should be a good communicator first.
• K. Rao wrote: I think i depends on your perspective - Leadership as a science or as an art..
• R. Miller wrote: I think in most cases the spark for leadership resides in many of us.
• R. Bhan wrote: "Be Deaf to people who say you can't do it. A school teacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his mathematics and for not being able to solve simple problems. She told him that you would not become anybody in life. The boy was Albert Einstein"
―The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership....... Leaders are made rather than born.‖
Warren Bennis
―A leader is a dealer in hope.‖
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a
"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.“
“If you're not
failing every
now and again,
it's a sign you're not doing anything very
innovative.”
The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost.
That is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out.
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind
that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.
"Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart."
"The best way to kill creativity in a team is letting the boss speak first."
―Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to
big things."
"All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem."
“Without experimentation, we might all still be living in caves and using rocks as tools."
Innovation is not absolutely necessary,
but then neither is survival.
Take the time to do it right, or make the time to do it again.
"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much."
—Walter Lippman
Questions?