Speed Up, Move Over or Get Off

Dan Antion – VP Information Services American Nuclear Insurers

Several years ago, our Board of Directors asked us to focus our attention on Talent Development

and Succession Planning.

They are not the same thing but they are certainly related.

Backstory

What We’re Trying to Avoid

“I’m not sure when I’m going to retire, so…”

“Pay attention, this is how I do my job”

“Some day this will all be yours”

“Once I get everything documented, you can take over”

Succession Planning is NOT

Making sure the operation can continue to thrive after today’s key people have retired or moved on

Developing the next leaders

Succession Planning is

SPEED UP?

You probably can’t achieve the kind of speed required and it is not the best use of your time to try.

More things are changing than ever before

More things about those things are changing

The pace of change is increasing

Volume – Variety – Velocity

From 1965 to 2005, computers basically just got smaller, faster and more powerful.

Major effort was to keep central office network humming Mobile involved connecting to home office and having enough

stuff on-board to work

We were focused on “doing more with less”

More Things Are Changing

Computers – still growing capability / shrinking form factor Communications expanding exponentially Content growing by type and volume Ability to work – anywhere – anytime – any device

Traditional management isn’t fast enough

Consider What’s Changing Today

Things About Things are Changing

Those are really all the same thing.

This is different

Graphing the Pace of ChangeThat’s a rough approximation of Moore’s Law

Fast was Really Almost FlatThat’s a rough approximation of Moore’s Law• I started programming in ‘67

and working in ’76• Pace of change has been

daunting during my career

Next Gen Was Born to Change FastThat’s a rough approximation of Moore’s Law• I started working in 1976• Pace of change has been

daunting

• What about the people who started in 2005

• This is the pace they are used to

Do You Really Want to Speed Up?That’s a rough approximation of Moore’s Law• I started working in 1976• Pace of change has been

daunting

• But not so much for people who started in 2005

• It’s the pace they are used to

• Are you sure you’re ready?

Example: Communication

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GET OFF!

If you aren’t willing to let others succeed before you leave, think about leaving sooner.

You don’t have to get off, but you have to give up some things that seemed certain

not so long ago.

Sorry – That’s Too Harsh

Because: Sure-Things Do Change"Oh, it doesn't matter what they say in the papers'Cause it's always been the same old scene.There's a new band in town

But you can't get the sound from a story in a magazine...Aimed at your average teen“

- Billy Joel – Glass Houses, 1980

Things Are Different

The Metaphor Doesn’t Work

We don’t have to be there.

MOVE OVER?Can we still make a difference if we

The Problems w/ Leadership Quotes

Leadership From the Leaders

The most important thing is to make the most important thing, the most important thing.Thorton May

Story Time – 1995 Novell BrainShare Drew Major – Novell

Chief Scientisto Explained famous

“Elevator Seeking” model

o Introduced “Sub-allocation & Small Block Storage”

Intel Head of R&Do Talked about Pentium

math flawo “Why are we even

making chips like Pentium? Who needs that kind of processing?”

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While Drew talked about squeezing more and more bits of data onto hard drives that were poised for exponential growth, Intel talked about a future in which chips would be so powerful that we could have active real-time translation.

Some Things Happen Fast

Some Things Take a Long Time

WHAT WORKS?

OK, so how do you identify and help prepare the next generation leaders?

You can’t lead if you’re busy doing People can’t grow if you keep doing the “important” things

o Let them tryo Give them credito Let them failo Take the blame

Your way may not be the way of the futureo It’s not what you did that matters, it’s why you did ito It’s not what you know, it’s why you still need to know it

First – Move Over AND Lead

Understands your business Management/ Supervisory

experience Organizational &

Management skills Demonstrates leadership Teamwork

Evaluate Based on Competencies Communications Strategic Orientation Customer/Owner(s) focus Achieves results Problem solving Business judgment Integrity

Nine Box Evaluation Not everyone is a

leadero That’s not a bad

thing!o Unless it is

Identify Endangered Skills Identify Analyze Organize Contemplate Test

A FEW PARTING THOUGHTSYes, this means that I’m almost done talking.

Someone else’s better idea

A better solution based on technology you didn’t have

That feeling that things would get done even if you weren’t around

That’s the goal!

Don’t Take These Personally

ConsiderExpedition Purpose “…to find the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce.“

- Thomas Jefferson

However: 1863 – 1869 Route of the first American transcontinental railroad.

From Council Bluff, Iowa to Sacramento,California.

CA, NV, UT, AZ,CO, NM, TX

KS, MO, OK

IAMN

About ANIAmerican Nuclear Insurers proudly partners with ADNET.

ANI was ADNET’s first client. Ed Laprade was my salesman AND my tech. The best thing about our relationship with ADNET is the way it has evolved over time to meet our needs.

@NucIns @Dantion

Dan Antion

American Nuclear Insurers

www.NuclearInsurance.com

AttributionsLewis and Clark map - Victor van Werkhooven - Own work

"Transcontinental railroad route". Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons -

Telegraph Key – released into the public domain by its author, Lou Sander