1. Introduction, setting the scene

• 3 Modern Cases: the “legacy”, the “inheritance”, the “opportunistic”
• The 3 Kingdoms: relationship with the 3 modern cases above
• The major characters
• Preliminary Discussion: relating this to your organizations

2. Leadership & Strategies of the Main Characters

• From Eunuch family background, to head of a kingdom: What did CaoCao (pronounced chow chow) do opportunistically?

1. Pragmatic Leadership: 5 key areas in the modern world

• Application context: crisis or calm business environments
• Workshop on the 5 key areas in your organizations

1. Tactical Leadership: find and keep your ACE card

• Application context, the influencer
• Workshop on finding the influencer as your advantage

1. Mistakes & Learning: case in modern world

Day 2

• Namesake legacy: How did Liu Bei (pronounced Liu Bay) attract top talents?

1. Loyalty and Righteousness: Attracting Guang Gong

• The equivalent of Guang Gong in organizations
• Workshop application in your organization

1. “Cluelessness” attracts

• Who are the Zhu Ge Liang in organizations?
• Workshop application in your organization

1. Mistakes & Learning: case in modern world

• Despite the inheritance, a young Sun Quan (pronounced soon choo-un) still needed guts and decision in leading people

1. Strategic genius: Lu Su

• Modern day decision making
• Workshop on strategy in a high-stake environment

1. Victory from Weakness: Zhou Yu

• Modern day Risk taking and critical thinking
• Workshop

1. Mistakes & Learning: case in modern world

3. Tying the old world with modern world: no East or West, just One World?

• Debate on this quote by Leo Tolstoy: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” (Switching the words “happy & unhappy” to “success & failures”, and “families” to “organizations”)
• Sharing HBR article: Toward a Theory of High Performance
• Tying 3 Kingdoms with HBR?
• Workshop discussion for organizations

4. Summary and moving forward

• Enhance strategic thinking for personal and organizational effectiveness
• Learn tactics and stratagem to achieve results
• Enhance skills in influencing others towards higher level of performance
• Pick up your own leadership strengths and weaknesses in enhancing performance
• Be more practical, with less reliance on dogma, towards desired outcome
• Identify characters of old in the modern world and learn from them