It’s often assumed that busy executives are too busy to worry about beliefs or philosophy – but in the real world our beliefs, or unwritten ‘scripts’ about how the world is, will affect priorities and decisions; whether we prefer financial to narrative information, and so on.
Just focusing on the numbers and managing for the next quarter has been exposed as inadequate – in pure business terms. Conscious leadership is an alternative. The idea is to illustrate the connections: between the personal, the team, the organization, society and the environment – all as an inter-dependent whole. At an individual level, an increasing number of business leaders are reassessing their beliefs, and updating them to bring them in line with a complex reality of faulty market pricing, finite commodities, and the nature of the company as a complex community of skilled human beings – not just a set of resources and targets. It’s a more realistic view, not a utopian one.
From New Normal, Radical Shift:
“Between us, we have coached, or interviewed for management books, hundreds of senior executives, and we also have senior management experience ourselves. This is the consistent finding: that personal presence and communication skills do not constitute a sideshow, but lie at the heart of what makes an effective leader. There is now considerable evidence that the personal presence of a senior business leader has a huge bearing on organizational climate and ultimately business performance.”
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