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Leadership disrupted: Pushing the boundaries
Transitioning To Digital Leadership
- Rethink the organization’s leadership model to include the concepts of innovation, growth, inclusion, teamwork, and collaboration.
- Identify the likely digital leaders in the organization: Determine who can be the investors, pioneers, and transformers.
- Train potential leaders to understand the opportunity.
- Ensure accountability.
- Promote younger people into leadership faster.
- Foster risk-taking and experimentation through leadership strategy.
- Move beyond traditional leadership training: Focus on leadership strategy, emphasizing culture, empowerment, risk-taking, knowledge sharing, exposure, matrix management, and building talent as guides.
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“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
Skills Needed In Digital Leaders
- Work together, complement each other, and function as a team.
- Able to operate on and enable environments that are more dynamic, team-centric, and connected.
- Lead and build teams and partner with the broader ecosystems, keep people connected and engaged, and drive a culture of innovation, learning, and continuous improvement.
- Lead a workforce that includes contractors, the contingent workforce, and crowd talent.
- Understand how different business functions, industries, and technologies come together to form solutions.
- Comfortable and competent with risk-taking.
Demographics And Leadership Destiny
Millennials expect to be developed via opportunities, mentoring, and stretch assignments. However that is hard to come by in top-heavy companies.
Most millennials think their roles provide little development while most companies report they have excellent or adequate programs for Millennials.
A Digital Leader's Cognitive Traits
- Conceptualizing possibilities in a virtual world
- Handling ever increasing cognitive complexity
- Thinking divergently about new ways of doing things
- Making decisions quickly without all of the information
A Digital Leader's Behavioral Traits
- Adapting to constantly shifting power and influence
- Collaborating with ease across many different teams
- Valuing the contribution of new work partners and different interest groups
- Investing huge amounts of energy into getting things right. Try, fail and try again
A Digital Leader's Emotional Traits
- Tolerating an environment of risk and ambiguity
- Showing resilience in the face of constant change
- Being brave in challenging how things are being done
- Having the confidence to take the lead in driving change
Types Of Digital Leaders
- Digital investors: Executives who embrace the VC mind-set, uncover opportunities, educate, invest in talent and ideas, forge partnerships, conduct the transition to a digital model and build an ecosystem that fosters innovation.
- Digital pioneers: Business and function leaders who can reimagine and lead into the future, shape new and different business models, and lead a winning digital strategy
- Digital transformers: Leaders who can manage people through radical change and transform the business
Transitioning To Digital Leadership
- Rethink the organization’s leadership model to include the concepts of innovation, growth, inclusion, teamwork, and collaboration.
- Identify the likely digital leaders in the organization: Determine who can be the investors, pioneers, and transformers.
- Train potential leaders to understand the opportunity.
- Ensure accountability.
- Promote younger people into leadership faster.
- Foster risk-taking and experimentation through leadership strategy.
- Move beyond traditional leadership training: Focus on leadership strategy, emphasizing culture, empowerment, risk-taking, knowledge sharing, exposure, matrix management, and building talent as guides.
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