When companies break out of old-fashioned management patterns condemning them to failure and manage to embark on a leadership path, this creates a positive change. This is not because their leaders suddenly have received advice from well-informed consultants or experts to do so. It is because their leaders have developed strong convictions and beliefs in […]
Recruitment is not the most advanced technological system that the company sets up to streamline processes and workflows. Although this is crucial in this DNA age, the human experience matters most. Need for speed ruins the human experience. Is it possible to recruit a partner or a friend using an automated recruitment system? 99% of […]
Executive pay should not be associated with the financial performance of the organization, but with the overall value generated by the organization. Most CEOs receive their reward packages based on the financial returns they deliver to shareholders. How much value has been created to employees, customers, vendors, society, and shareholders? The focus should not be […]
This kind of leadership is not coincidental, it is born out of a strong will to become the kind of the leader who contributes to the lives of others. Leadership is a social responsibility and comes at a very expensive cost. Putting people’s interests before yours. Going first and taking the lead is intentional not […]
Companies are full of managers whose ability to inspire and drive positive change in people’s lives is extremely limited. Managers know how to manage reports, capital, and assets, but they do not know anything about the business of inspiration. How do they lead and inspire people? They are inexperienced in the way they inspire and […]
Most managers have learnt the skills of managing capital, assets, or systems but they have never been taught how to inspire and look after people. What they have learnt is the art of management and the ability to generate results that are interpreted as beneficial to the senior management. Leadership presents a fundamental task: How […]
Ultimately, a leader’s job is merely to inspire people to do great things and look after them while doing so. If you are not that leader, then it is advisable to reconsider your leadership. It does not cost money to do that, but it does require a radical behavioral change in putting people first before […]
If an organization is purposeless, their vision statement is a bunch of words that does not add up. It is born dead. Without a clearly articulated purpose, the organization cannot command its leadership responsibility. Purpose is the difference that you are making in the world. Vision is how the world would look like when you […]
The only real challenge to achieving great leadership is to understand it. Leadership should not be blindly pursued; it should be first understood. If purpose is not a fundamental part of the equation, leadership will return wrong results.
This is natural, because culture is the sum of purpose, values and principles that are upheld and cherished in the organization. If you do not smell purpose and its values, then the leaders have corporately manufactured the culture. Culture speaks purpose and purpose speaks leadership. What language does your organization speak?
kamiltoume.com 