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It takes a leader who brings leadership balance to the role to inspire a sense of lasting commitment from all of the team. Leaders must lead! Leaders do lead. Are you the leader they need?
Leaders must lead
To lead is to hire, promote and build for succession – at a level of excellence. ‘The head’ describes success in strategic terms. ‘The hand’ outlines what, specifically, needs to be achieved. ‘The heart’ captures the people management capability demanded. ‘The spirit’ is all about character. Character matters. And in these turbulent times, it matters a lot. Talent acquisition, specifically, and talent management, generally, that fails to embrace all four leadership characteristics is a gateway to mediocrity.
How the organisation deals with unprecedented events remains, indelibly, in employees’ minds. And not just for those most at risk. The question customers and employees alike want to know is who are you? At times like these, “what do you stand for?” Beyond the symbolism, the sharp marketing and the self-promotion “what is the real story behind the brand?”
It takes a leader who brings leadership balance to the role to inspire a sense of lasting commitment from all of the team. Leaders must lead! Leaders do lead. Are you the leader they need?
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John O. Burdett is founder of Orxestra® Inc. He has extensive international experience as a senior executive. As a consultant he has worked in more than 40 countries for organisations that are household names. John has worked on organisation culture for some of the world's largest organisations. His ongoing partnership with TRANSEARCH International means that his thought leading intellectual property, in any one year, supports talent management in many hundreds of organisations around the world. Get in touch with John O. Burdett »
