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Recognize the Power Shift and How

Executive Leadership Requirements are Changing

Working in the social era requires leaders to embrace: team work, shared leadership, thought development and innovation by unlikely contributors – Are you prepared to enable them and drive power up versus down?

The so called: “Bosses” need to recognize that their true power lies beneath them on the organizational chart.  Real power comes from your ability to harness the resourcefulness of others by collaborating, sharing authority rather than dominating it.  People, your people, are connected and it is in those networks where problems are solved much more rapidly than in the past.  Understanding this shift may have a direct and positive impact on how you serve your staff and customers – This can be a Bottom-Line Booster and Competitive Advantage so why do some managers, leaders, supervisors… people in position of responsibility, hold on to the old paradigm?  Title?  Ego?  Both, I suspect, yet new organizations are throwing out the old titles:  the head of Honest Tea is the “TeaEO” – Seth works at all levels. 

What’s really in a title?  http://www.banffexeclead.com/AcumenPDF/Leadership%20Articles/Leadership%20Acumen%2027%20V10%20Job%20Titles.pdf

It’s worth the read and when you are done, think about the “network”, not vertical or horizontal alignment, or the “matrix”, but rather the social era and how today’s young leaders are tossing out the old paradigm of top-down.