It's about creating the right environment. It's about enablement, empowerment. It is about setting guidelines and boundaries and parameters and then setting people free. It's about challenging minds and capturing hearts. Leadership in this new era is about empowering others to decide for themselves.
Leadership is about empowering others to reach their full potential.
Leaders can no longer view strategy and execution as abstract concepts, but must realize that both elements are ultimately about people. Now, of course, traditional aspects of being a Chief Executive will continue to be important, like understanding the business or the institution, understanding the numbers or the assets, pushing the right levers to bring about the right results. But the most magical and tangible and ultimately most important ingredient in the transformed landscape is people. The greatest strategy in the world, the greatest financial plan in the world, the greatest turnaround in the world, is only going to be temporary if it isn't grounded in people. There are small and large acts of leadership.