New Executive Competency
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| John S Veitch |
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| The Network Ambassador |
In the modern workplace, educated employees expect to be treated like partners, and not as line workers.
As Malcolm Gladwell explains in "The Outliers" success can't be explained if you only look at individuals. Success always occurs in a social context.
Coaching, practice time, mentors, good teams, lots of good tries where lessons were learned; these are things that make a difference.
A critical role for every manager is to give the staff who report to you lots of opportunity to use their initiative and to make choices.
This should have the effect of improving innovation, project planning, and public relations.
Participation in communities of practice and in online networking, and increases the learning rate of individuals.
These skills, some of which are digital literacy, are seldom taught to young executives.
Global executives should seek to BE
1. Globally aware, with expanded geographic, historic and cultural knowledge.
2. At least moderately able to speak and understand, and to write in another language.
3. Culturally self aware. Respectful of the cultural customs of others.
4. An active mentor of associates, creating a pool of potential partners and new leaders.
5. A working partner with co-workers, sharing knowledge, and negotiating roles.
6. Confident about maintaining an extensive online network.
7. A contributor to social forums and communities of practice.
8. Capable of balancing business, social and environmental objectives.
Economic systems are part of nature. We can see coming what Paul Gilding is calling "the great disruption".
We are in an economic, political and social cul-de-sac. Making "progress" in the ways we have used in the past 300 years, makes things worse.
We need a transformation of what we understand by the term "economic development". If we are to have an "Open Future ©" that must happen.
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