This PPT slide, part of the 101-slide Complete Guide to Value Creation PowerPoint presentation, presents a framework for understanding the interaction between different leadership styles and their corresponding goals within a corporate setting. It categorizes 3 distinct styles: Hands-on Owner, Hands-off Investor, and Activist Partner. Each style is evaluated against 4 specific goals: Emancipating Business Units, Enabling Results, Regulating Accountability, and Galvanizing Linkages.
The Hands-on Owner style is characterized by a centralized decision-making approach, where most decisions are made at the corporate level. This style emphasizes short-term impact through direct intervention, maintaining a medium level of accountability with a paternal orientation towards business units. It seeks to galvanize linkages by mandating actions directly.
In contrast, the Hands-off Investor style promotes autonomy within business units, allowing for a decentralized decision-making process. This approach focuses less on intervention and more on enabling independent operations, resulting in few corporate programs. Accountability is prioritized with a strong financial focus,, but there is minimal intent to capture synergies across units.
The Activist Partner style occupies a middle ground, advocating for shared partnerships and collaborative development. It balances intervention with a focus on long-term results and frequent reviews, ensuring that capabilities are developed effectively. This style aims to galvanize linkages by emphasizing the benefits to the overall organization.
The slide concludes with a note on the tension between the Hands-on Owner and Hands-off Investor styles, highlighting that organizations often oscillate between these 2 extremes. This analysis is crucial for executives seeking to align their leadership approach with corporate objectives, ensuring that the style adopted effectively supports the desired outcomes.
This slide is part of the Complete Guide to Value Creation PowerPoint presentation.
This presentation is created by former McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, EY, and Capgemini consultants. It covers multiple Value Creation frameworks utilized by global strategy consulting firms.
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