Much has been written on leadership over the last 10-15 years. Leaders who are transformational, authentic, focused on people development, highly ethical, focusing on the greater good, and essentially walking their own talk are exhibiting desirable leadership traits. There are leaders who live this way but often they are not high level positional leaders- maybe now with the need for a different kind of leadership at the top there will be space for these new leaders. Any thoughts on this?
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Great insight. I currently work in middle management and find it frustrating that most leaders at the top have a fear of their middle management of being successful with their staff – almost to the point of jealousy.
I consider myself to be a leader who leads by example and allows my staff to grow with confidence. I am definitely moving forward in my career and hope to take those who exemplify similar qualities with me.
Thanks Karen. What you allude do exists in many places. Often high positional leaders are promoted based on their productivity and results, rarely for their people leadership abilities. When they get there it is a challenge to shift to being a stronger people leader when what got them there was being task focused. In the world now, as we help middle managment be better people leaders,especially the younger generation, they will move up into higher levels already having developed their own self-awareness and people leadership skills. This is the longer term leadership transformation we need. In the meantime their are pockets of people focusing on growing and developing people leaders everywhere, to help influence those around them.