JOHN MEREDITH

OF HUTCHISON PORT HOLDING

By: GROUP 3

Bipin | Shariq | Marie | Ravi | Swati | Manotosh

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Childhood

Meredith developed the most important skills of a leader during his

childhood and the beginning of his life
TravelinginSouthAfricaatveryyoungagebecauseoftheworldwarII

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Going to the sea

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Containerization
Containerization :
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Cargo is packed into

large metal boxes of
standard size
that could be loaded
onto ships

Meredith initially
opposed to
containerization but
later saw the potential
to revolutionize the
shipping industry
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He convinced HWD
contacts to actually
build port facilities for
loading , unloading
and storing containers

Eventually, he was given a

cargo container as an
office
Cost conscious operation
Building container
facilities
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HONG KONG chapter

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Challenges of international management

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Leadership Style

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Leadership style- workforce management

Sometimes you have to stand up for your people, even if you know it will be an unpopular
idea at the higher levels

Loyal to workforce learnt the value of supporting roles while doing menial work
Advocated for better working conditions for subordinates
Fought for living arrangement for P&O crew at the cost of his own reputation
Believed that managers should be directly responsible for their workers

Globalization:

Ability to look out for the opportunity

Growth of world trade; ports piggybacking the growth

Two fold objective: 1) Find more customers in Hong Kong

2) Port development opportunities outside Hong Kong

Influenced Li for approval; eventually became a front door for Chinas operations and
trade enabler

Eventually established HPH

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Six Leadership styles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv16yctXaFM

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Leadership styles of Meredith

Coercive

Authoritative

Affiliative

Style in a phrase

Come with me

People Come first

Underlying emotional
intelligence
competencies

Empathized the value of

honesty in opinions
Advocated for better working
conditions for all his
subordinates

Empathization
Bottom up approach for
acquired ports
Loyalty, pride, spirit and
motivation

Style works best

New vision and strategy from

just a ship manufacturer to
containerization

Motivated people to think

differently when they were
facing market changes and
poaching

Overall impact on
climate

Most strongly positive

Positive

Leaders modus
operandi

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Leadership styles of Meredith

Democratic

Leaders modus
operandi

Style in a phrase

Coaching

Participation- the best

innovations come from
within the comapny
Crystal ball sessions

Global Leadership Development

Program and Leaders Leading
Leaders

People Come first

Try This
Empathization
Developing mid level managers to
become future leaders and skill
development

Underlying emotional
intelligence
competencies

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Pacesetting

Style works best

Market challenges and

poaching against
innovations

Global expansion and offshore

operations

Overall impact on
climate

Positive

Positive
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Daniel Goleman emotional intelligence

What I Do

Who I Am

Personal Competency

Social Competency

Benefits:
Improving and
fulfilling Personal and
Professional
relationship
Improving
effectiveness as leader

Gaining better insights = better decisions = better outcomes

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John Merediths emotional intelligence fit

Social Awareness

Self Awareness

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Aware that he had no security and

stability
Admitted that he had lack of respect
for his own abilities/ determination to
succeed
Aware that he had no education
Confident that he will succeed as a
leader
Aware that his leadership helped
Self Management
establish HPH as industry leader
Learnt to be independent at an early
stage
Performed menial jobs to keep him
grounded and humble
International Vision Ability to see and
seize the opportunity of global
expansion
Ability to foresee the slowdown in Hong
Kong
Two business opportunities Potential

Value of honesty -Distance between

leader and followers
Acknowledging Lis style of leadership
Members of a small organization have
a sense of identity, ownership and
purpose
Employees unwillingness to to go
overseas
Challenges posed because of poaching

Social Skill

Gathering information and opinion from

others and then make a clear decision
Loyalty towards workforce Better
working conditions for subordinates
living problem for P&O crew
Influencing Li with the proposal for
globalization
Ensuring the acquired ports retain their
identity
Crystal ball sessions/ GLDP/L3 programs

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Big five personality factors of Meredith

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Situational leadership model

Merediths style of leadership is an S2
style as he focuses communication on
both achieving goals and meeting
followers socio emotional needs
But for long term he is looking to
adapt an S3 style of leadership where
he could give his followers control of
day-to-day decisions but remains
available to facilitate problem solving

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All things decline eventually

Declining Hong Kong while emerging countries growth

Recruiting and supporting managers for the operations

POACHING

Business opportunity & Innovations transform the company in future

Encouraged employee to think differently
Crystal ball sessions with HPH employees

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Developing the next generation

If you need wish to stay ahead of the competition, you
need to nurture and lead your people

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Challenges ahead - Hong Kong showing decline and

emerging countries showing continuous growth

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Thank You!

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