Summer Institute for Communications and Marketing Pre-Institute Sessions-LeadershipCLARKE2023

LeadershipCLARKE2023

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In this document, Chris Clarke, the Associate Vice President of Duke University, discusses various elements of leadership and offers advice on defining oneself as a leader. Clarke begins by mentioning his impressive career accomplishments, providing statistics such as career victories, NCAA appearances, and awards. He then lists different types of leadership styles, including democratic, autocratic, laissez-faire, strategic, transformational, transactional, coach-style, and bureaucratic leadership.<br /><br />The concept of servant leadership is also introduced, emphasizing the importance of authenticity and behavior in leadership. Clarke presents learning objectives, including assessing one's leadership style and considering personal identity factors that impact leadership, taking risks, minding gaps, and building a personal brand.<br /><br />The document goes on to discuss perceiving differences in the workplace, such as gender, race, age, physical ability, and more. Clarke suggests being authentic, visible, assertive, smart, curious, professional, realistic, and better as ways to navigate these differences and be an effective leader.<br /><br />The topic of "selling out" is addressed, inquiring how one decides which battles to fight and which version of oneself to present in different situations. Clarke also examines the concept of personality dimensions, including internal, external, and organizational dimensions, as well as diversity.<br /><br />A path forward is then outlined, discussing entitlement versus privilege, glass ceilings, institutional complexities versus self-imposed doubt, and identifying mentors, sponsors, friends, and competitors. The dichotomy of empowerment versus marginalization is explored, including understanding an institution's mission and culture, recognizing politics and rules of engagement, dispelling myths and misperceptions, and maintaining authenticity and integrity.<br /><br />Clarke concludes by discussing the importance of defining one's role as a leader, while adapting to circumstances. He suggests various roles, such as insightful informer, effective decision-maker, collaborative partner, co-creator, institutional booster, value creator, technical expert, conscience, and boundary challenger. Effective management of these roles requires understanding cultural contexts, sensitivity to nuances, problem-solving, reliability, trustworthiness, productivity, risk-taking, diplomacy, strategic orientation, judgment, and thoughtfulness.

Keywords

leadership

career accomplishments

leadership styles

servant leadership

learning objectives

perceiving differences

selling out

personality dimensions

diversity

defining one's role