If the contemporary orientation to control is about foreseeing, instead of focusing on errors alone, then let us consider aspects of our leadership for the new decade. If we will take charge of our future, what can we control in terms of the direction of our leadership development? Here are some suggestions that have served leaders well over the past decade, and deserves support and sustainability:
1) Make insanely effective presentations about a cause, product or service you strongly believe in (like Steve Jobs or Anthony Robbins)
2) Stay actively connected to your networks and optimize social media tools of communication (but not at the expense of your working hours)
3) Encourage staff to enhance their potential, and build on their capability
4) Challenge yourself to do something uncomfortable (occasionally)
5) Make time to talk to your management, and leaders in your company
6) Seek people’s opinions, and ask them how they will approach things
7) Surround yourself with a pool of experts (outside of your area of expertise) and activate them regularly for projects and assignments
8) Continue to learn, improve and grow (and aim for mastery)
9) Be non-judgemental and aligned with people’s values, and be mindful of your own
10) Integrate other people’s thinking into your collaborative communication (acknowledge and recognize others in meetings, presentations and interviews)
11) Exercise your courage in different ways (demonstrate you have true grit or gonads of steel), or stand up for somebody, or do the right thing
Recommended Reading:
The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs – How to be insanely great in front of any audience by Carmine Gallo (McGraw-Hill, 2010)
Leadership, by Rudolph W. Giuliani (Hyperion, 2005)
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