12:30 – 13:00 – Registration
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
13:00 - 13:50 CET | dasForum Operngasse 17-21/ 11th floor, 1040 Vienna
Teresa Amabile Professor of Business Administration, Emerita at HBS
In the next era, organizational success will depend on leaders’ ability to motivate everyone to do their creative, productive best. With rich data from nearly 12,000 diary entries of employees from multiple organizations, Teresa Amabile will share her research findings to facilitate your discovery of how you can enhance your people’s inner work lives, boost long-term creative productivity, and foster progress. Small wins are a powerful part of the story
From Potential to Success: Developing Extraordinary Leaders
13:50 - 14:40 CET | dasForum Operngasse 17-21/ 11th floor, 1040 Vienna
Claudio Fernández-Aráoz Executive Fellow for Executive Education, HBS
In Argentina it is said that “even the past is unpredictable”. This unpredictability has now become global, with geopolitical and technological shocks compounded by unseen tariffs, uncertainty and trade wars – shocks that are impacting all leadership jobs faster than ever before. Facing this new reality, large organizations are failing miserably at the crucial job of appointing the best leaders at the top. Last year, unable to spot or develop a suitable internal candidate, 44% of S&P companies experiencing a CEO turnover resorted to an outside hire, resulting in massive economic value destruction in both hiring and raided organizations.
This Masterclass will explore how to develop extraordinary leaders by assessing potential, forecasting how far each leader can go, and exposing them to the right types of job rotations and stretch assignments. As a result, organizations will not only drastically improve their performance and value creation; they will also help their people become the great leaders they were always meant to be.
14:40 - 15:00 – Networking Coffee Break
Think Like a Scientist: How to change your thinking to lead effectively in an uncertain world
15:00 - 15:50 CET | dasForum Operngasse 17-21/ 11th floor, 1040 Vienna
Amy Edmondson Professor of Leadership & Management, HBS
In the spirit of the conference theme, “All Hands on Deck,” this session explores a leadership mindset shift that allows more effective action by all for navigating uncertainty. This shift is well captured by the short phrase think like a scientist, as a deliberate contrast to thinking like a (command and control) manager. Classically, managers supplied answers and plans and evaluated how well others executed on them. In contrast, successful scientific leaders offered direction and questions that empowered action and helped others make sense of data. This is not about being more lenient or laissez-faire, but rather about building a new form of discipline. In short, today’s leaders must abandon the discipline of control to embrace the discipline of enabling learning. Key concepts covered include psychological safety, intelligent failure, and interpersonal skills for high-quality conversations.
Delivering Stakeholder Value through Human Capability
15:50 - 16:40 CET | dasForum Operngasse 17-21/ 11th floor, 1040 Vienna
Dave Ulrich Professor of Business at Ross School of Business
Managing people and organization is less about “HR” work and more about delivering value to all stakeholders through human capability. Stakeholders are all “humans” who engage with an organization, including internal employees, executives, and board members and external customers, investors, and communities. Human capability represents the integration of talent (workforce, people, employee, competence), organization (workplace, culture, team, capability), leadership at all levels, and the HR function. Peter Drucker said "The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer”. This workshop will explore emerging insights (theory/ideas, research/evidence, and practice/solutions) to link workplace practices around human capability to marketplace value.
16:40 – 17:00 – Networking Coffee Break
The Quest for Vitality: Rebuilding the foundations of human organization
17:00 – 17:50 CET | dasForum Operngasse 17-21/ 11th floor, 1040 Vienna
Gary Hamel Professor, London Business School and Oxford University
The data is unequivocal: The world’s largest and most important institutions are becoming increasingly ossified. This is a threat to economic growth, productivity, and social cohesion. It’s time to stop pretending that incremental fixes will be enough: tinkering at the margins won’t reverse a rising tide of institutional mediocrity. What’s needed is something different, something bigger, something that engages critical constituencies in a concerted effort to rebuild the foundations of human organization. In his masterclass, Gary Hamel will lay out the case for a radical management makeover and outline what must be done to revitalize the organizations that dominate the global economy.
Leading in Founders Mode-Lessons to learn from Steve Jobs and Werner Von Siemens
17:50 – 18:40 CET | dasForum Operngasse 17-21/ 11th floor, 1040 Vienna
Thomas Sattelberger Former Member of the German Bundestag; Angel Investor
In this master class Thomas will address a third way of leading businesses besides managing by delegation(“manager mode”)and authoritarian or directive leadership. Based on recent discussions in the founders ecosystem in the US and the UK, but also based on his own experiences as actor in transforming companies he will introduce “founders mode” as an alternative approach of leading. It is partnering with people about details without micromanaging them. He argues that this is not only a style for startups and scaleups, but for organizations in transformation. And in doing that he refers also to the German founders’ era in the late 19th century and to the creation of ‘Hidden Champions’ in the decades after World War II with entrepreneurs with hands on -style, often with politically incorrect and nonconformist behavior.
18:40 – 19:00 – Drinks