MISSION LEADERSHIP

Leadership, especially in the ever-changing world of technology, is a balancing act. Competitive demands and resource constraints create a blurred environment where it's easy to get off track, and the domino effect of dependent program impacts can quickly spell disaster.  Under these conditions, it's imperative to create and sustain a visionary path to success for others to follow.

To achieve full-spectrum leadership competency requires dedication and practice. When realized, leadership engenders strategic vision, creates trust, enables difficult conversations, and empowers team intelligence.

Leadership is the ability to create a visionary path forward, to inspire others, to facilitate growth and progress, and to enable change across diverse groups.  It's empowering individuals to achieve their aspirations toward the larger goals of the enterprise.  Leadership surpasses technical expertise and requires practice across multiple domains.

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Simon Sinek presents a simple but powerful model for how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers -- and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its stock price) appeared to be struggling.

Bestselling author Seth Godin says that "Management and leadership are totally different things. You think you are being a leader, but you are probably being a manager." He goes on to say, "Managers figure out what they want done and get people to do it.

René Carayol is one of the world's leading business gurus specializing in leadership and culture.  René reveals through breathtaking examples how culture supercedes vision and endures the most extraordinary situations. 

 

At TEDxUSC, business professor David Logan talks about the five kinds of tribes that humans naturally form -- in schools, workplaces, even the driver's license bureau. By understanding our shared tribal tendencies, we can help lead each other to become better individuals.

Modern work - from waiting tables to crunching numbers to dreaming up new products - is about solving brand-new problems every day, flexibly, in brand-new ways. But as Yves Morieux shows in this insightful talk, too often, an overload of processes and sign-offs and internal metrics keeps us from doing our best.
What's the secret to unlocking the creativity hidden inside your daily work, and giving every great idea a chance? Harvard professor Linda Hill, co-author of "Collective Genius," has studied some of the world's most creative companies to come up with a set of tools and tactics to keep great ideas flowing - from everyone in the company, not just the designated "creatives."