Advancing the Promise of

Emerging Leaders:
In Search of a New Paradigm?
Partha S Ghosh

December 2013
 What is Leadership?

“It is a matter of:

inspiring people to realize their true potential in your
presence……
&
influencing people search for higher levels of
achievement in your absence”

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 Two Points…. Several Questions?

Putting the New Challenges of the Energy Landscape in

perspective: Leadership Deficit?

A few thoughts on Developing Leadership Pipeline?:

Power to influence outcomes?

…in the process set up our panel of experts to share

their perspectives on the issues related to the
development of Leaders…..

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 Changing Energy Landscape ….

Emerging Energy
Environment
•  Complexity
•  Capital & IP
Intensity
•  Higher degrees
of uncertainty

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 During the recent years the industry is indeed in a
early stage of a New Era….
Waves of “Wealth Creation Curves” in the Oil & Gas Industry

Hydrocarbon
reserves HC Resources
Hydraulic fracturing, Convergence Engine
today 50 times
Horizontal drilling •  Symbiosis of Multiple that of the
Disciplines & Mindsets
estimates in 1960

Start of
offshore E& P
(Mid 1920s) Stage 4: New HC Era driven by
Electrical conductivity convergence of S&Ts
of minerals
(Early 1900s)
First Modern Stage 3: Plus Systems Engineering &
Oil Well 1859 Imaging technologies

Stage 1: Civil Stage 2: Geological engineering

engineering & Physics
Investment in Knowledge

1850 2000~12 2050

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 Leadership at field level will need to include
wider set of skill sets & range of responses
Content of Leadership
International
advocacies Meet Corporate
HQ
requirements
Regulatory
requirements

National Political Conventional

expectations expectations
Operational from a Asset
excellence
Manager
Local political/union
sensitivities

Field application of
Innovation Community level
services as
required
Increasingly more
important requirements

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 Furthermore significant changes within

Emerging Energy Emerging

Environment Challenges within
•  Complexity
•  Capital & IP •  Crew change
Intensity •  “Glocalization”
•  Higher degrees •  Diversity
of uncertainty

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 The Journey forward ?

Emerging Energy Emerging

Environment Challenges within
•  Complexity •  Crew change
•  Capital & IP •  Talent deficit
Intensity •  “Glocalization”
•  Higher degrees •  Diversity
of uncertainty

New Leadership
Specs ? New Leadership
Capacity

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 Implications are significant; will require
serious and quality attention

New Leadership New Capacity

Specs Requirements

?
Strategic Implications?
1.  What will define outstanding Leaders ?
2.  How do we design leadership pipeline ?
3.  How do we ensure an adequate capacity of
leadership is strategically developed?

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 Leadership attributes is contextual

LEADERSHIP ATTRIBUTES

Soft

Alerting, Cultivating
involving and & earning trust
Inspiring with partners/
executives all external
across stakeholders

External
Internal

A
Internal
Demonstrate
Discipline to
thought
ensure clear
leadership,
logic,
rigor and
narrative/story
decisiveness
& decisiveness

Hard Factors

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 Beyond T towards π

LEADERSHIP ATTRIBUTES Set of behaviors to secure

genuine respect from the
external eco system
Soft
Creative, Decisive, Inspirational
with an understanding of the

π

Alerting, Cultivating Big picture
involving and & earning trust
Inspiring with partners/
executives all external
across stakeholders

External
Internal

Technical, functional &

3 conventional skill sets
Internal
Demonstrate
Discipline to
thought
ensure clear1 2
leadership, Being Sensitive and Alert to
logic,
narrative/story
rigor and external changes
decisiveness
& decisiveness

Hard Factors Discipline and rigor with spirit

of inquiry & Systems thinking
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 Keeping in mind Leadership Culture is
fundamental…… as the spin of the electron
It could be energizing .. It could be suffocating

Leadership
Expression

Development
initiatives

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 Leadership attributes and SBC Leadership
model: Power of inner self
3PI LEADERSHIP MODEL & LEADERSHIP ATTRIBUTES

Soft

Power of

π

Alerting, Cultivating Team
involving and & earning trust
Inspiring with partners/
executives all external Intellect Interconnect

External
across stakeholders ivity
Internal

Internal
Demonstrate Possibility Perseverance
Discipline to
thought grounded Intuition & Principles
ensure rigor, on Reality
leadership,
logic narrative/
rigor and
story &
decisiveness
decisiveness

Hard Factors

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 Leadership program over an extended period
Over a X years executives will be required to - on one hand develop a wide angle perspective on Leadership
and on the other hand secure focus on the likely roles they wish to play in society

End with holistic view of the global

trends/future possibilities
Begin with wide perspective

Help executives develop

2 focus on their roles

Maintain good balance between

1

4
hard and soft projects

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 Leadership program over an extended period
Over a X years executives will be required to - on one hand develop a wide angle perspective on Leadership
and on the other hand secure focus on the likely roles they wish to play in society

Stage 1
Individual Leadership Stage 2Develop Leadership Team Leadership
Develop awareness of self
Project agenda across org units
Basic understanding of : l  Study of Leaders from l  Introduce Power l  Experiment with
l  Essentials of multiple perspectives framework personal styles and
leadership l  Draw personal l  Fundamental trends explore areas for
l  Ways to cultivate lessons from the that will shape the development
courage through ethics analyses of leaders’ future l  Top five projects will be

& genuineness lives l  Executives to develop presented in

their own agenda Leadership forums
Between first and second round
practical team projects will help
executuves explore their
leadership qualities

Launc
1 2
h

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 Leadership journey conditions

Prerequisites Essential Behavior

1.  Real
1. Professional
investment in
respect for the
professional
journey
development

2. Personal trust
2.
across the board in
Genuine caring
the journey

Walking the Talk: Being

Genuine
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 Turbulent Times …The Journey forward ?

Emerging Energy Emerging

Environment Challenges within
•  Complexity
•  Crew change
•  Capital Intensity
•  “Glocalization”
•  Higher degrees
•  Diversity
of uncertainty

π

New Leadership New Capacity
Specs requirements

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