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The Leading Edge By: Ed Yager Beginning today and every two weeks this space will be occupied by an on-going examination of the practice of leadership in Utah's best performing organizations. In each article I will present new thoughts, new insights, and new ideas that will help you and others in your organization in very real and very concrete ways. I will profile a key leader in the Utah community of business, governmental, service, education, organizational, and community leaders. Each will share their vision of the future and the practices and principles they believe have contributed to their success. Each will define their own scenario, challenge or situation. The experience of these key leaders will be powerful and relevant to private, public, and not-for-profit sectors as well. It is reported that over one-half of the nation's current population of leaders will leave their jobs within the next decade. Already General Motors reports that within two years they will have more people on their retiree roles than on their employment roles. For most of the industrial giants and other major employers the future is very frightening as they face this sudden exodus of leaders at all levels, taking with them the valuable experience and insights that they have earned over 20 or 30 years experience. Who will be the next generation of leaders? Where will they come from? Where have they learned to lead? There have been so few opportunities in the past two decades as a result of the constant delayering and downsizing. The passing generation of executives were raised on the age of giants. Huge corporations dominated the scene. Executives were cloned and honed as they spent 20 years or so rising through 15-18 levels of management - beating their peers for the next promotion time after time. Today high potential executives move to the top in a matter of a few years, often with no significant leadership training or experience at all. So we have a passing generation of supervisors and managers raised in the command and control model being replaced by a generation of leaders with little or no experience, technical experience, or entrepreneurial experience. The giants or titans of industry were visible as well known public figures. Consider Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Case, Donald Trump, or any of dozens of the new millionaires and billionaires rising to their lofty status on the wings of deal making and technical wizardry -- not on business or managerial experience. The thinkers are moving on. Who will replace the gurus? Drucker, Deming, McClelland, Bennis, MacGregor, Herzberg, Maslow, and others' names were totally familiar to two generations of management. In the same way the giant industries have moved over to makes room for millions of small entrepreneurial organizations so too have the efforts. Now thousands of authors and 10's of thousands of books on every conceivable aspect of leadership and management create so much noise that the days of formulaic leadership and leadership style is totally dead and much of the chaos of the day has been created by the very consulting industry who propose to eliminate it. In this space we will explore the roads to success and the traps that lie ahead for any unexpecting leader. Charisma, power, connection, politics, ego? What do they have to do with tomorrow's leadership? What about vision, goals, values, principles, character, crystal clear strategy? Does the Bill Gates philosophy represent the new model of leadership? If so do you understand that philosophy? Do leaders today live by the principles and practices of total quality/ISO/Baldrige, the Theory of Constraints, teams, visions, and mission statements, habits, or strategy? How are they managing change, dealing with labor shortages, managing innovation and technology? Have they involved themselves or their organization in the many reincarnations of "sensitivity training" that are popping up? How do they train and develop employees and future leaders? Do they conduct performance evaluations? How do they pay for performance, hire the best, or retain their customers and win new ones? We will explore the ideas and practices together to find out what's going on, what works, what does not, and what makes the difference. We will thank this journey with a great passion for learning. |
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