Top 10 Gamechangers for Leaders
If You Are Not Developing These Capabilities, You Will Fall Behind
The world of work is changing fast. The pace of change is exponential and wholly unprecedented. The demands on our workforce and our leaders is far more intense than it was in decades past. And this intensity shows no signs of slowing.
As the landscape has shifted, a new profile for effective leadership has emerged. Michael Quinn, author of Deep Change, had the foresight in 1996 to say that businesses have a choice between “deep change” in their leadership practices or dying a “slow death.” Almost 25 years later, we at The People Side are seeing the choice is now between “deep change” and “imminent death.” Businesses who don’t cultivate the right mindsets and capabilities in their organization are failing to engage their workforce in strategic shifts and relentlessly changing customer demands. These companies exit the marketplace with their heads in their hands, a seemingly brilliant strategy crushed by poor leadership and a resistant culture, unable to make the turn. We’ve seen it happen, and so have you.
Consider this…
50 years ago, the average lifespan of Fortune 500 companies in America averaged 60 years. Today it is less than 20 years. [1]
400 million to 800 million jobs could be displaced by automation by 2030. [2]
The amount of data generated in the past five years exceeds the amount of data previously generated throughout the history of humanity [3]
We are living in the Golden Age of understanding human productivity and performance. Social neuroscience suggests we have not created workplaces where people can thrive. [4]
So let’s talk about YOU. You are in our network for a reason!
At The People Side, we partner with companies who operate all over the world – from scrappy digital start-ups to matrixed corporate behemoths – and find ourselves rapidly learning alongside the world’s biggest leaders as we engage them in conversations about their failures and successes. And we are realizing what matters most.
What we are learning is too important to keep to ourselves. What we are learning should be a gamechanger for leaders everywhere. So we are making a commitment to you, our precious network: We are going to share these priceless insights with you FOR FREE to help more leaders and companies thrive.
We are going to help you develop the in-demand capabilities we know are gamechangers
These are the mindsets of today’s best leaders. This is what our clients are paying us to teach and what we are learning from the leaders we interact with every day. We will explore one leadership capability each month and invite you to join in on the conversation. How is this capability relevant and demonstrated where you work? What else have you learned and read about this topic that you want to share? As a community, we will be provoked to reflect and learn more about how to put these capabilities into practice ourselves and to grow the leaders and teams around us.
The People Side Presents “Top 10 Gamechangers for Leaders”
Think of the Leadership Gamechangers as a collection of puzzle pieces coming together through a 10-part series to reveal a future-proofed leadership profile. In the process, we’ll provide reflection questions and prompt you to personalize your learning. As part of our community, we invite you to ask questions of our coaches and facilitators to learn more and share more with us. We hope this becomes a series you look forward to participating in - powerful people having powerful conversations about important topics. We will share vlogs, blogs, and links to keep things interesting, so let us know the content you find most valuable. Let’s get started!
Right now, we invite you to do three things…
Next week we will reveal the first of our Leadership Gamechangers. To get the most out of this series:
Get the conversation started! Reply to this post with your best guess for which capabilities will make the list and why they are Leadership Gamechangers where you work.
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We hope you are excited to learn with us this year, because we are certainly excited to learn from you.