Jacob Morgan On The Future Of Leader

My Takeaways:

‘A Leader is someone who has the ability to see that something can be better than it is now, is able to rally people to move toward that better vision, can come up with a plan to create that vision, and can work toward making that vision a reality while putting people first.’- Jacob Morgan

‘When you’re leading an organization, you have to take into account that people are always the most important thing in the company. How you recruit those people, how you motivate them, how you task them with the overall mission and what you want to accomplish, is the core of leadership.’- Marissa Mayer

‘Companies of the future can no longer think that they can just exist … significant companies of the future cannot just exist in this little bread box, in this isolated place. We are a part of greater society and a greater society is a part of us. The trend of when and how we engage in the bigger societal issues will continue to be a part of the future of leadership.’- Bernard Tyson

‘We’re moving from an era of lifetime employment to lifetime employability. If your people don’t feel that they are learning and progressing, then they will leave you, and they should! Why would they want to be a part of an organization that is making them obselete? As a leader it’s your job to make sure that doesn’t happen. We have to admit that we are not dealing with the same latent landscape we were in the past twenty or even that past ten years where we assumed people will stay forever.’- Andre Calantzopoulos

‘Future leaders must practice constant reflection and transparency, not just by themselves but with their teams. When I hold meetings, anyone is allowed to question a practice, a policy, or a behavior in our company and they are also allowed to question me as a leader. There should be no place for leaders to hide in their organizations.’- Wolf- Henning Scheifer

‘Most successful organizations communicate clear values. That is foundational. As organizational leaders, we also need to stand for something as the people we are. Our talent and clients want to know what our firm is committed to, and they want to know what our leaders are committed to as part of their professional and personal lives.’- Diane Hoskins

‘If you want to attract and keep top talent, then you need to make sure to invest in their experience. Employees have more power and this will only continue to increase. We have to build organizations with our people, not for them. Leaders must understand that they and their organizations are nothing without the people who work there.’- Barri Rafferty

‘Future leaders must instill a learning culture in their organizations. Organizations that are not continually learning and adapting will lose their competitive edge and ultimately won’t survive.’- Jo Ann Jenkins

‘As a leader, you must be comfortable with creating innovative cultures. This means being open to and actually encouraging people at every level and every part of the business to ask questions and challenge you as a leader with new ideas and ways of thinking. Asking questions and challenging a leader and the status quo used to be viewed as a problem; today this needs to be celebrated.’- Peter Simpson

‘Future leaders must be willing to get things wrong but then have the ability to adapt and move on. It’s not the mistakes and failures that matter; it’s how you respond to them.’- Patrick Doyle

‘A leader of the future will have to be astute enough to balance automation with the human touch. They have to decide what types of tasks to automate so that people can spend more time on high-value activities and also decide which businesses will continue to benefit from human judgment.’- Kiran Mazumdar- Shaw

‘It is crucial for a leader not to be a prisoner in an ivory tower. Leaders must be aware of the challenges facing their organizations and be in touch with what their employees and customers care about and value. You cannot lead alone from the top; you must lead from the bottom with your people. The ivory tower will not fall by itself; as a leader, you must tear it down.’- Isabelle Kocher

‘We spend most of our lives learning how to do, teaching people how to do, and yet we know that in the end it is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the performance and results. So leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.’– Frances Hesselbein

‘A leader who doesn’t adapt to the ways of communication will never be heard.’- David Nelms

‘Leadership is a team sport, so what good is it if you are growing and excelling if nobody else around you is.’- Jacob Morgan

Source

Jacob Morgan (2020). The Future Leader: 9 Skills and Mindsets to Succeed in the Next Decade