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Leadership with a big P

Ben Kuipers, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, The Hague

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Who is Ben Kuipers? 1.  Groningen 2.  Umeå 3.  Novosibirsk 4.  Rotterdam 5.  Rijswijk 6.  The Hague

•  Performability •  Public Leadership Foundation

•  Leiden Leadership Centre •  https://nl.linkedin.com/in/benskuipers •  Twitter: @benskuipers

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The “big” leader • Person: the leader is the central figure • Position: place in the hierarchy,

increasing power and influence, moving up • Process: the leader creates the picture,

the rest follows (top-down, planned) • Purpose: being the biggest, the greatest

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Moving from “big” leaders with a small p… to “small” leaders with a big P!

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Purpose as a guiding principle • It’s more important that we travel the road to move forward, than to reach a destination (agility)

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Purpose is about framing “Revolutionizing the higher educational system”

“Diminishing slavery from the chocolate industry”

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Quality in everything we do

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Reach as many people as possible

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Purpose as a result of dialogue •  Enabling

people to continuously take initiative and contribute (agility)

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The “small” leader • Person: we all show leadership; it’s

about us, enable others • Position: shared and distributed, take

initiative • Process: we are creating the picture

together; dialogue • Purpose: our guiding principle,

leadership for the common good

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What kind of leader are you?

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