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Going Beyond Great

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Greatness is possible. You can do it if you believe in yourself, if you think you can do it.

Greatness is possible if you are willing to do the work. To get there, you have got to change how you see yourself.

And ‘to go beyond great, companies today must do good and maximize their TSI (Total Societal Impact), a goal that over the long term will enable them to also grow shareholder returns.’

‘Attracting and inspiring talented young employees won’t be enough for most companies to meet their talents needs. Companies must take steps to teach their existing workforce new skills and behaviors, what some have termed upskilling.‘

‘In the years ahead, companies must thrive with talent, putting people and their needs first rather than regarding them as resources to exploit.’

‘Companies can’t take their people for granted if they hope to succeed with always-on transformation- they have to make them their central focus.’

‘Transformation must become an always-on proposition, an essential part of operating your business.’

‘Winning at such an endurance contest means building up a fundamentally new kind of transformation capacity inside your organization.’

‘Companies can’t just attend to their people (the heart of traditional, best-practice transformation). They have to make the heart their central focus by attending to purpose, culture, empathy, and leadership.’

‘With change initiatives shifting, overlapping with, and impacting one another, companies and leaders must fundamentally reset their and the organization’s ambitions (the head part of traditional transformation). They must articulate a far broader, more comprehensive understanding of where they’re going over the long term as well as how they’ll prioritize and focus to reach this desired state.’

‘To execute ongoing always-on transformation, companies must double down on agile and build an even nimbler set of hands by cultivating new capabilities and adopting strong governance models.’

‘To go beyond great, leaders must feel comfortable with handling both elements of a binary, and they must help their people feel comfortable as well.’

Source

Arindam Bhattacharya, Nikolaus Lang, and Jim Hemerling (2020). Beyond Great: Nine Strategies for Thriving in an Era of Social Tension, Economic Nationalism, and Technological Revolution

Give More Than You Take

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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People are looking for other people who care. If you care about other people, you are a change agent. You are a giver, not a taker.

Givers give to others. Takers take from others. Givers are in it for others. Takers are in it for themselves.

Let me tell you something: If you want to live a meaningful life, it is better to be a giver than a taker.

Because, according to Paul Polman and Andrew Winston, ‘Transformative leadership requires broad partnerships.’

‘Cultivate a sense of responsibility and duty to serve the world, and encourage people to bring their values to work.’

‘Help people in the business find what they do uniquely for the world (their purpose).’

‘Embrace empathy, compassion, and humility, and openly seek help and partnership from others.’

‘Reward courage, speak truth to power, and do what’s right for even if there are costs.’

‘Look forward to understand how the world’s needs will evolve and where the company’s purpose can best serve the world.’

‘Remove rigid constraints on what the company can work on, and give people space to think big, work for the long-term, and invest in the future.’

‘Work with society by proactively inviting them in instead of waiting for them to bang on- or knock down- the door.’

‘Worry less about who gets the credit, or how to compete on issues, and focus on broader solutions.’

‘Lead the work on the biggest, most complex shared problems.’

‘Listen to smart critics to undertand systemic challenges and hurdles.’

Source:

Paul Polman and Andrew Winston (2021). Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take