Today, I had the chance to sit-in for the IPMI Discussion Forum to celebrate IPMI’s 25th Anniversary of Excellence in Business Education with the topic of “Developing World Class Leaders For Indonesia” presented by the Managing Partner of Mckinsey & Company in Indonesia; Mr. Benjamin Soemartopo.

Mr. Benjamin spoke about different things including the rise of Indonesia’s future;  The eye on Indonesia amongst the International community and most importantly,  The need of 27,000 Indonesian World Class Leaders in a span of 10 years for Indonesia to move forward into a strong powerhouse nation.

Mr. Benjamin began by sharing to us the 6 schools of leadership theory, and they are:
– Traits : “Great Man Theory.”
– Behavioral
– Power
– Context
– Charismatic
– Transformational

He stated that the main point of leadership is, “leaders develop leaders”.  He explained that leaders can be extrovert or introvert and leaders can be made leaders or natural born leaders, but the most important thing is breakthrough results.  Results of significance of the greater good; In other words, results beyond expectation.

He also talked about that world class leaders need to understand developments amongst Indonesia & throughout the world within a span of 10 years in the future and knowing what is going on in your industry as well as your functional development all throughout the world.  He shared to us a link on the internet at mickenseyquarterly.com/whatmatters,  to read about further developments throughout the world.

Mr. Benjamin then told us that world class leaders must understand business, government and society as leaders are born on the job rather than off the job. For further self development, he stated that 70% of the 100% portion of leadership development is that one needs to stretch their jobs or stretch jobs of subordinates as well as find creative ways for solutions.  Where 20% is from Feedback and Mentoring/Coaching others and the last 10% would be formal training; such as public speaking and Team Building.

Other important points he mentioned:

Lead Self:

Understanding English/Indonesian;

Communication;

Conceptual/Problem Solve;

Don’t be shy to speak out;

Have the will;

Leadership interpersonal being.

Lead Change:

Strong Vision;

Dealing with resistance;

Managing Stakeholders.

Lead Others:

Leading a top team;

Coaching and Feedback.

How to delegate:

Have the authority to assemble a team;

Segment time to mentor & monitor according to performance members within different team personnel;

Monitoring by creating an owed task checklist for your team;

Continuous 2 way communication.

Lead Business:

Benchmarking with global peers.

During the two hours of presentation and interactive session, I learned that leadership starts within yourself and those people you have developed as leaders all throughout your lives.  Leadership are born on the job as leaders have the highest level of initiative.

I have to admit I was inspired One hundred Fold in order for me to create significance into the greater good for my country, and this can be done starting with each and everyone of us.   There is no better time to pursue this leadership than right now.  Thank you very much for the inspiration Mr. Benjamin Soemartopo.  God bless you.