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Leadership Wisdom

Disruption's of Leadership:

1. Technology;

2. Complexities due to geo political leadership;

3. A leader is expected to ride 2 horses at the same time: (a) make sure your core business continues to operate smoothly and (b) look out for other business modes or disrupt your own business, creating new opportunities for future growth.

CEOs tenure is getting shorter:

1. Because CEOs are getting burnt out more quickly; and lonely at the top;

2. Because they are voluntarily stepping away;

3. Because CEO’s have to spend a lot of emotional energy and struggle is how to retain the sense of personal balance in your life;

4. Because they lack curiosity.

Source: Rajeev Vasudevan, Economic Times 27 February, 2018

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Leaders fail more often

Damien I O Brien, Chairman, Egon Zehnder answers:

Q: Are leaders failing more often?

A: Expectations from leaders are much greater today. There is a wider range of stakeholders, the level of transparency and immediacy* that leaders have to  deal with today makes it more challenging.

Q: What are the traits of effective board members?

A: There are distinctive traits that good directors have. Collaboration is important. Engagement around the board table is important. Insight is very important. You have to make sense of massive data, see patterns. Boards function best when you have low ego individuals who work towards the benefit of the organisation. Boards need individuals who brace diversity and are inclusive.

Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/49809467.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst



*the quality of bringing one into direct and instant involvement with something, giving rise to a sense of urgency or excitement.

Leadership has to be value based.

Rajeev Vasudev, Egon Zehnder, global CEO, answers questions on leadership:

Q: How is the nature of leadership changing in a volatile world?

A: “The task of leadership has become more difficult. It has become much more challenging but I think leadership has not caught up with the change in expectation in today’s world. There is a mismatch between what is expected of the leaders in the volatile world and what leadership was traditionally. That needs to evolve as well. If you are not motivated by a bigger purpose beyond self then you are unlikely to be a successful leader. The leadership has to be value based.”

Q: What traits should leaders display?

A: 1. Adaptability is one of the most important criteria for leadership today.

    2. Curiosity, which is all about being open to new ideas; constantly learning not just about industry or environment, but also about self.

    3. Insight: Today, leaders are being bombarded with information. The ability to synthesize and to separate the signal from the noise is important . It is very important to have inclusive leadership today.

    4.  Resilience: The ability to go through ups and downs and staying focused.   Volatility will happen, that’s the new normal

Build Relationships

Konark Singhal, cofounder and managing director Mockbank:

The best leadership lesson he says: “It is never too early to start building relationships. Your current co works may not be movers and shakers but in a few years many of them will be the who’s who of the industry.”

On work life balance he says: “stay with a close friend, hang out with him /her after hours and on weekends discussing everything under the sun.”

Great Leaders

Tony Schwartz says:

“A great leader continually challenges his / her people to push beyond their current comfort zone; pushing people too relentlessly, however, eventually prompts fear and fatigue, both of which undermine great performance. In this case the balancing opposite is nurturing and caring for those one leads.”

Greatness as a leader, and beyond that as a human being, requires the vision to see more and exclude less. It means looking inside ourselves more deeply as well as outside ourselves, beyond self-interest and immediate gratification. It means not only resisting the deep impulse to choose up sides to avoid uncertainty, but also challenging our blind spots and wrestling with our infinite capacity for self – deception.

© 2015 The New York Times News Service.