Engineers as Future Leaders @ NED Wali Zahid

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Engineers as Future Leaders
Wali Zahid | ceo, Skill City bahrain
NED University Karachi, Pakistan: 3 October 2013

Who’s Wali?
 Asian businesses have known Wali for his 20-year work
on business leadership and executive coaching
 Leads the longest-running Train-The-Trainer program |
13th year | 16+ Asian locations | 1,000+ trainers
 Taught MBA courses at IBA, ZABIST, CBM, UMT, IIU, Dow
 Board/Advisory @ LCWU, Indus Valley, CBM, PSTD
 At heart: a disruptor | challenging schooling,
performance, training efficacy, leadership readiness

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That’s us on web!

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Advising NS government
 Was flown in to advise the new Nawaz Sharif
government on turning around state-owned
enterprises before the cabinet took oath!

Leads CEO leadership workshop

2050 interview – Urdu Digest

CEO Summit with Shahbaz Sharif

At Pakistan Vision 2025 meeting

Let’s talk about you, engineers!
 You create or recreate the world!

You create this

Engineers are clever!
 German Engineering Arab Technology clip

Impatient Gen Y’ers / Millennials

Three parts of the talk
1. Where the world is heading – technologically,
economically
2. How is it easy or challenging for engineers to
be leaders
3. How you can get ready to lead by using
Wali’s Will-Skill Matrix

All of this
 Through visual content

Part 1: Where the world is heading
The world is connected today in ways that are
shattering traditional communications concepts

Technologically
 Changes at exponential speed
 Gen Y: Impatient – want it now, not five
minutes from now!
 Facebook and Youtube replace everything
Did you know? clip
Microsoft vision clip

What is out 
1. Teachers, teaching, knowledge, instruction
2. Attentive, disciplined students (not made any
more!)
3. Degrees (Google HR - no GPA, no interviews!)
4. Schools & universities (replaced by MOOCS, Khan
Academy, FutureLearn)

End of teaching? Edudemic

Learning, not teaching! Wharton

End of college degrees: HBR

GPA & interviews useless: Google

Khan: Teacherless classrooms

MOOCs replacing unis

Free education globally

MOOCs rising

Even UK unis following!

Economically
 Pakistan is one of the top 20 economies in the
world in 2050*
*Goldman Sachs

World in 2010

World in 2050
Goldman Sachs: Jan 2012 report

Bordering 2 giants – China & India!

Just one glimpse
 Retail sector in Pakistan – CNN clip

Socially/demographically
 We are becoming a richer and healthier world
 Muslim populations in the West are increasing
at a rate that it will change the European
cultural landscape by 2050
 Hans Rosling clip
 Church clip on Muslim Demographics

Part 2: Engineers as leaders
 Expectations from the world
 Your personality type
 Challenges

Expectations from the world
The American Society for Engineering Education
 The Engineer of 2020 Project
A high-risk, high-pay-off approach for the
future of US engineering education
 9 attributes

9 attributes of engineer of 2020!
1. Strong analytical skills
2. Practical ingenuity, creativity; innovator
3. Good communication skills
4. Business, management skills
5. High ethical standards, professionalism
6. Dynamic/agile/resilient/flexible
7. Lifelong learner
8. Able to put problems in their socio-technical and operational context
9. Adaptive leader

Role of engineers in the economy
 If you want good manufacturing jobs, one thing you could do is graduate
more engineers.
Jeffery Immelt, CEO General Electric
 More S&P 500 CEOs obtain their bachelors degree in engineering than in
any other field.
US National Academy of Science, 2007
 In the emerging economy of the new century, the team with the most
engineers wins .
Director Maine Heritage Policy Center

A world with issues
Four key issues
 Energy
 Transport
 Climate change
 Waste disposal

Solution depends on?
1. Technology
2. People
Q: Which side engineers are good at?

Technology/People mix!
Innovation: Change through technology
Leadership: Change through people
Technical ability x leadership = Impact!

Our numbers maybe right, but…
 Math vs trust clip

Engineers are left-brained?
Business
leadership
is a
whole-brain
function!
A Analysis
D Decisions
E Evaluation
L Logic
N Numbers
W Words
V Verbal
Memory
Surgeon/Accountant/
Lawyer / Engineer
Rational
C Colour
I Ideas
G Gestures
A Art
R Ribbon
F Feelings
I Impulse
Image
Rhythm
Emotional

Engineers on the RIDO scale

Mostly, engineers are…
 Left-brained
 Introvert / need ‘alone’ time
 Logical/rational/analytical
 Practical (not very ‘creative’)
 Structured/methodical/process-oriented
 Functional expertise vs people skills?

Two issues
1. Politics
2. Too much hard work!

4 styles of political behaviour

How people are promoted
 Research: What takes you ahead at job?
 Learning: What does this tell you? (Ashridge, UK)
Performance (work)
Image (reputation)
Exposure (visibility)
10%
30%
60%

Part 3: Getting Ready!
 How you can get ready to lead by using
Wali’s Will-skill Matrix

Some useable examples
 Did I say: Inspiring?

How Steve Jobs did this
 46 seconds clip
 Lessons: changing the world?

How Samsung does it!

13 pivots of Samsung…1
1938 – Samsung started as a grocer
1. 1940s – groceries → noodles
2. 1950 – selling sugar
3. 1954 – largest woolen mill
4. Late 1950s - insurance and securities
5. 1960 – black & white TVs
6. 1980 – phone switch boards & fax systems

13 pivots of Samsung…2
7. 1987 – founder dies; department stores, chemicals &
logistics, paper/telecom and electronics
8. 1980 – investment in electronic facilities
9. 1990 – investing → construction
10. 1990s – downsizing and merging during recession
11. Late 1990s – largest memory chip manufacturer
12. 1995 – chips → LCDs; largest flat screen TV manufacturer
13. 2010 – LCDs → smartphones

How a child does this
 Indian tree fall clip

Before anything, you need a goal
 What do you want to achieve, say, in 5 years?
 Take 3 minutes
 Try as much clarity/foresight as you can
 Be as ambitious/crazy as you can!
 It doesn’t need to be about money
 Tell people around you

Your BIG goals?
 What are they?

How some others will use 5 years
 The 5 years clip

To achieve your goal
 What you need is…
 five BIG things

The first two
1. Will
2. Skill

Wali on will & skill
To succeed as a leader, engineers need
Will
and
Skill

Will & Skill
 Will = desire,
hunger, drive,
ambition,
willingness, your
reason for being,
mindset
 Skill = ability,
competence,
capability,
something you are
known for, niche,
skillset
Let’s watch a clip from Shaolin Soccer

Wali’s Will-Skill Matrix v1

The next two
3. Focus
4. Energy

Focus-Energy Matrix
ENERGY High
Distraction
40%
Procrastination
30%
Purposefulness
10%
Disengagement
20%
High
FOCUS
Low
Bruch & Ghoshal study for Harvard Business Review

Why focus matters?
 Focus clip

How disengagement wastes you
 Boring job clip

Procrastination/distraction

The fifth
5. The Flow

The Flow?
Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi:
Good business:
Leadership, Flow
and the Making of
Meaning

The Flow
 David Beckham clip

All of this, with team work
 Teamwork clip

In summary…
Engineers will be ready to lead if you:
1. Have a worthwhile goal
2. Have a high will and a high skill
3. Work with high focus and high energy
4. Move to a higher-level challenge (flow) when
things become routinised

Before we end, the final 3 pieces
 What leads to success clip
 Of eight things, what is your pick?

The right thing vs the easy thing!
 Rise and shine clip
 This clip will guide you how to create global
success and become Olympians!

Finally, remember
 Every time you fall clip

Thank you!
Wali Zahid
skillcity@live.com
www.skillcity.co
+92 300 820 1 88 9
+971 50 2 55 3 88 7
+973 3416 0522

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