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Transforming Leadership – From Ideas to Icons
“Business People need to understand that it is 'Ideas' that move History” – says Philip Kotler. Lean Organizations – Virtual Offices – Flexi time – Internet – 24 x 7 Global Support Systems – Communication Mobility… The massive explosion of growth of ideas from concept to fulfillment is seemingly endless. The pace is scorching and the traditional paradigms of competition are blurring out of relevance.
These sweeping changes are creating new kind of companies and new kind of managers to compete successfully, at the fiercest level, to win. Leadership is the key in transforming ideas into icons.
Successful leadership is fast on its feet, flexible, adventurous, responsive and constantly innovating. The management of radical change is taking centre stage. Corporations are being reshaped to remain more fluid in pursuit of constant renewal. C.K. Prahlad said, “A firm's capacity for organic growth is the ultimate test of its leader's value addition”. The leadership determines the passion with which the corporation is poised for effective change, radical change or explosive change, through innovative differentiation in products and services.
In the spectrum of managing life and business, 'Idea' plays a vital role to spark off a grand dream, which a committed leadership transforms into significant reality. Exemplary leaders initiate and enable organizational processes to achieve iconic status.
True Leadership – is giving birth to an idea, from the ocean of imagination, and nourishing it further to make it iconic. The leader inspires, motivates, and enlightens, hand holds to help remain ahead in the journey to the pinnacle.
Very rarely one gets to know how the seeds of an idea of a leader flowers to become a valuable iconic phenomenon admired by all.
These iconic successes are built on sound management principles, innovative thinking, dynamic organizational setups, and hunger for radical performance improvements – all aiming at giving the customer euphoric satisfaction beyond expectation and bettering it all the time.
The radical global demographic changes, beyond the recent global financial turmoil, will be presenting a world market, as it has never been before, creating huge opportunities for new business. It will need different sets of ideas, management processes and products to create new icons of tomorrow. Leadership will play a vital role in the creation of new ideas to new icons. The best learning to help create such leadership can be taken from the leaders in industry and management thought process, who themselves are successful iconic figures.
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