Notable for his work in finance, Thane Ritchie commands a history of achievement in alternative investments, mergers and acquisitions, real estate markets, and other areas. In this presentation, Ritchie includes key research findings from leadership expert, Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries' article published in the December 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review magazine.

1. 8 Archetypes of
Leadership
Presentation by Thane Ritchie

2. Leadership Questionnaires
❖ According to the Harvard
Business Review (HBR), “In
business, leadership
questionnaires are frequently
used to try to identify certain
recurring behavior patterns
considered more or less
effective in a leadership
context.”
Source: https://hbr.org

3. ❖ According to Manfred Kets de
Vries, one of the world’s
foremost thinkers on
leadership, there are also tests
to discover whether executives
are people- or task- oriented,
autocratic or democratic,
transactional or
transformational, and
variations on all of these.
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People-oriented vs. Task-oriented
Source: https://hbr.org

4. Manfred Kets de Vries
❖ In an article from the
December 2013 issue of
Harvard Business Review
magazine, the scholar writes,
“These patterns can be
thought of as leadership
‘archetypes’, reflecting the
various roles executives can
play in organizations.”
Source: https://hbr.org

5. ❖ He argues, a main cause of
team and organizational
dysfunctionality and
executive failure is “a lack
of fit between a leader’s
archetype and the context in
which he or she operates.”
❖ He includes eight
archetypes he finds to be
most prominent.
Source: https://hbr.org

6. These eight archetypes of
leadership are:
Source: https://hbr.org

7. #1. The Strategist:
leadership as a game
of chess.
These people are good at dealing with
developments in the organization’s
environment. They provide vision,
strategic direction and outside-the-
box thinking to create new
organizational forms and generate
future growth.
Source: https://hbr.org

8. #2. The change-catalyst:
leadership as a
turnaround activity.
These executives love messy
situations. They are masters at re-
engineering and creating new
organizational “blueprints.”
Source: https://hbr.org

9. #3. The transactor:
leadership as deal
making.
These executives are great
dealmakers. Skilled at identifying and
tackling new opportunities, they
thrive on negotiations.
Source: https://hbr.org

10. #4. The builder:
leadership as an
entrepreneurial activity.
These executives dream of creating
something and have the talent and
determination to make their dream
come true.
Source: https://hbr.org

11. #5. The innovator.
leadership as creative
idea generation.
These people are focused on the new.
They possess a great capacity to solve
extremely difficult problems.
Source: https://hbr.org

12. #6. The processor:
leadership as an
exercise in efficiency.
These executives like organizations to
be smoothly running, well-oiled
machines. They are very effective at
setting up the structures and systems
needed to support an organization’s
objectives.
Source: https://hbr.org

13. #7. The coach:
leadership as a form of
people development.
These executives know how to get the
best out of people, thus creating high
performance cultures.
Source: https://hbr.org

14. #8. The communicator:
leadership as stage
management.
These executives are great
influencers, and have a considerable
impact on their surroundings.
Source: https://hbr.org

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❖ Notable for his work in finance,
Thane Ritchie commands a history
of achievement in alternative
investments, mergers and
acquisitions, real estate markets,
and other areas. With more than 30
years of experience in his field,
Thane Ritchie currently oversees
investments through various
private equity partnerships and his
family office, covering investment
funds and portfolio companies at
various stages of growth.