Redefining Leadership — In Modern Era
Ask any Management experts what makes a good leader, and the chances that you will get different answers from all of them. For some, it is Aspiration, Visionary, Imagination, Creative expertise, etc, etc. There is no one-word answer for being a Leader. James MacGregor Burns once wrote, “Leadership is one of the most observed, and least understood phenomena on Earth”.
We conflate the term leader with the term Manager (or supervisor) which leads to the miss application of the term leadership. A powerful ruler cannot be an effective leader. Hilter was a powerful ruler but not a leader. He was an authoritarian and not a leader.
A collector of understanding what his vision of a company. Anything is possible if you understand how to look at the world. It's not about studying in a business school, it is about how you make other people understand you and your ideas.
It is like flipping a coin, where both sides are about quitting and reframing the concept, redefining the strategy.
When people get you or understand what you do and why the journey you are on, and when they shape your world in big ways or small, to make that sail easier. Their journey making it easier. Managers are facilitators, they accelerate the speed for better achievement of our goals.
For any Leader, to be successful he needs a few basic points:
1.Employee Engagement: I have heard a story of links and nodes from one of the visionary speakers. Combination of links and nodes that makes a company’s goals.
Like in relationships, We know how to breakdown complex nodes to simpler nodes, Like better system models And group notes, We synthesize several points of view into it.
Employee engagement is not about their talking or gossiping, it about the innovations they present and ideas being heard.
2. Effective Communication: My job was to make sure that the conversations fostered conflict, and for difficult things to make sure things they stay in front of people to bubble and simmer and churn. I wasn’t the person brought in to clean up the chaos; I was the person to scale up this chaos in a more organic way of working.
It not about changing others it's about changing our mindsets first, to be resilient to the changes constantly occurring. Change in behavior is hard. It is like an analog of losing weight where it has 4 words, Eat… Less… Exercise… more. Simple!!! Isn’t It? Yet there are many diet books out there, why? Because managing weight is hard. It requires behavior change.
3. Crisis of conformity: when we continue to do business and lead in the way we always have the evidence is overwhelming that the world needs us to change. In the UK 3% of people trust their Govt to solve their Brexit crisis. You cannot have your license to operate anymore without a purpose that contributes to society.
We cannot define why we exist but we have to define how we will do business and how we will lead.
The world is calling for accountable leadership now. Any leader who wants to be sustainable for this 21st century really needs to think courageously and holistically. We need to release that leader inside.
Gender Balanced Leadership and Embracing Generation Gap: It is Like gender-balanced leadership, it's like closing the gap between two genders where both genders are equally contributing to our business. It is like both men, and women embrace both masculine and feminine values.
Generational gap. Never too young to lead never too old to follow. Hubris syndrome is bad for any leadership. It is always there all over the world.
Redefining leadership is not about changing 6 billion people work like you, it is about changing at least one person in those billions to create more leaders and attempt to bring the change in society. It is like practicing followership where employees are being heard. They have their ideas to represent. Appreciate even if you think it is stupid, you never know which stupid idea, our future generations would love. Just trust them, give them Control for their work.
A leader is the Director of Action in the company. His vision is a guide and followed only when his employees feel safe.
Leaders serve multiple roles. The best leaders motivate, act as role models, and serve as figureheads for their companies. You don’t have to have employees to be a leader. Leadership qualities help home business owners deal with contractors, customers, clients, and the general marketplace.
They’re also more inclined to apply long-term fixes to problems, rather than relying on patchwork fixes, which are often unstable and unsustainable.
If you cling too tightly to old ideas, you may not survive. You could achieve this by using the principles of adaptive leadership in the workplace.
Successful leaders aren’t afraid to take risks, as long as they’ve calculated the odds of success and are comfortable with those odds. Starting a business is a risk, so, naturally, entrepreneurs have an inherent tolerance for risk. That is a good thing, so long as it’s carefully managed because it can allow you to do things “safer” entrepreneurs won’t do. That can help set you apart, and, if the risk pays off, you’ll be better positioned for success. That doesn’t mean you should take more risks for the sake of doing something risky. Assessing risks and having the courage to take a calculated risk is part of successful leadership.
Leaders are also readers. They listen to podcasts. They’re continually learning about their industry, whether it’s new marketing strategies, technological developments, or another aspect of the business. Good leaders feel compelled to keep up on trends and to stay relevant.
There are different leadership thoughts, and no single approach is the correct one. Much depends on what your employees expect, the culture you’re trying to build, and how you work best. For example, some companies perform extraordinarily well with a boss who’s demanding and refuses to be told “no.” Others perform better with a boss who’s eager to compromise and let employees flourish on their own.