Monday, March 7, 2022

Innovativeleadership

Leadership is about the future and progress. Innovation is the theme to celebrate the global leadership holiday.


We live in a diverse global society with a multigenerational workforce, multipolar knowledge centers, multi-cultural wisdom, and multidimensional innovation, etc, in which change is the norm and if we don't embrace it, accept it, roll with it, or make it happen, we're not able to run an advanced global society. 

To build up an innovative global society, the leadership influence is not only based on the rising and expandable horizon, but also based on forethoughtful leaders’ very intention to dig into the root causes of varying issues in the global scope. Today, global leadership needs to become more open and interdisciplinary, influential and innovative in order to deal with multithreaded changes and over complex problems, improve leadership fluency from culture empathy to intelligence; from respect to empowerment, from creativity to inspiration.

Global leaders of the future sense, feel, read, imagine and intuit possibilities in the breakdowns: In a hyper-connected and interdependent society, leadership needs to shift from command & control to open-mindedness, listening-telling and inclusiveness, etc. Good communication is based on expertise, contextual understanding, and deep insight, to avoid “lost in translation” syndrome. In an open and progressive society, leaders should sense, feel, read and imagine, break down outdated rules or conventional wisdom; set tones to enhance cross-boundary communication and collaboration.

Leadership innovation is a tough journey. The good intention of becoming a leader is to inspire and innovate, to facilitate open dialogues and encourage change or innovation. Because change is often an uncomfortable, yet necessary part of reaching the future and sustaining change impact. Open communication generates a digital vibe to inspire change, engage the variety of audience and streamline strategy management. Communication effectiveness sets culture tones and drives the long term business competency. Leadership impacts much depends on the individual’s communication effectiveness, learning agility, and overall professional competency.

Playing a highly visible leadership role by envisioning & practicing expert power, sharing the unique insight:
Global leaders manage across functional people at broad geographic boundaries. They must be comfortable leading virtual teams, multiplexing tasks and time zones, communicating and collaborating in a way that keeps everyone focused and connected in spite of the distances. To improve leadership effectiveness, global leaders are specialized generalists with a unique set of global leadership competencies such as multicultural cognition, sound judgment, inclusiveness, talent recognition and empowerment, and domain expertise, etc. Global leadership empowers people with voices, tools and experiences of how to effectively communicate across the world even if they perhaps speak diverse professional or national languages, and build trust across these diverse cultures.

Leadership is about the future and change, innovation and progress. Global leadership certainly has to take into account cultural intelligence and how that affects communication, interaction, and collaboration between people with diversity of thoughts, character, cognitive difference, skills, style, etc. Having leaders of respective functions to interact in a structured setting on a consistent basis goes a long way towards eliminating the silo mentality, building trust across diversified teams by sharing unique insight, and co-solving crucial problems. Taking the time to communicate the expected outcome with consideration of the "right" way allows the team to have room to make success progressive and change sustainable.

Have the judgment to know what’s important, and have the leadership ability to deliver value-added results:
Leadership is situational. Insightful global leaders should cultivate their global mindset with cognitive intelligence, always look for the complementary mindsets, capabilities, and skills so that they can build a highly competitive team to deliver value-added results. There are many things on the global leadership agenda nowadays, it’s important to facilitate enriched conversations for harmonizing the worldwide differences of values, cultures, philosophies, etc, and complement each other’s mindset & expertise to deliver value-added performance results.

Besides being brilliant and domain expertise, high-influential global leaders are in demand to focus on convincing, persuasion, and collaboration at the global scope; knowing how to practice strategic thinking for keeping the end in mind, collaborate with stakeholders of all stripes, lead desired changes by setting good policies, lubricating communications, optimizing processes and capacities to deliver value-added results. If all of the upper-level management is engaged and focused on the same institutional goal and plan, they will be able to move forward in the same direction and make impressive progress.

True global leaders usually require high level skills such as global cognition, inclusiveness, adaptability, empathy, multifaceted professional competencies to work in a global environment, attract global talent, and co-develop a hyper-connected and harmonized global society.




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