He says leadership is associated with taking an organization into the future. And one of the definitions that John Kotter Professor at the Harvard Business School uses is of leadership is the following. This is in the heart of a lot of the classic leadership literature. Let me share, for example, why I'm bringing this up. We don't always think about the idea that we have some control about the focus of where people are going in the future. And the reason that this matters so much is that we don't always think about this.
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And we're actually doing that with our own self reflection as well. And so we're projecting our vision of what we think is important and where we want people to focus. And we're also telling a story about who we think we are as leaders. Rob Wilkinson Projection is the idea that we all, whether we realize it or not, are telling a story about where we think things are going in the future.
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I was wondering, Rob, if you can start with explaining what does projection mean? And today's podcast, Rob, is going to talk about the fourth P of the model called projection. We already have podcasts on the first three P's, which our perception process and people.
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Salimah Samji Welcome to the BSC podcast series we have with us again Rob Wilkinson, who is sharing his 4P Model of Strategic Leadership.
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In this BSC podcast, Salimah Samji interviews Harvard Kennedy School Lecturer in Public Policy and Leadership Robert Wilkinson about his 4P Framework for Leadership and the fourth P: Projection. Katya Gonzalez-Willette Hello and welcome to Building State Capability at Harvard University's podcast's series.