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Economic crisis offers hard lessons in leadership
The workplace. Teams will be populated with more diverse personalities, whose challenge will be to work together to set some new directions and renew moral leadership while paying closer attention to day-to-day execution. Photo/FILE
Posted Tuesday, March 2 2010 at 00:00
This is not a time for leaders who will be waylaid by details, nor for those who are convinced they see the future clearly and want their organisations to fall in line.
Rather, they must see the general patterns, and see them better than others.
The most successful leaders of these newly transformed organisations will do one more thing distinctively well.
They will set the overall purpose and mission of the organisation, not just its strategy. Indeed, they will often concentrate on corporate purpose or mission, leaving strategies to the executive team.
If we are fortunate, the leaders who emerge this time will be honest, robust and farsighted enough that their prevailing style will last for some time.
Mr Rawlinson is a Booz & Company partner based in London, where he leads the organisation, change and leadership practice.
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