Isn't it a tough journey to celebrate #8900 blog postings - to pursue the digital way of brainstorming, innovating, story-telling and leadership influence?
Coherent character with the right dose of charisma: Leadership is complex, although it has many facets, at its core, the foundation of leadership is based on authenticity; authenticity discovers purpose; purpose based leadership is more influential on advancing collective human progress. Authenticity comes from self-awareness, value proposition, and fair judgment. An authentic leader has coherent character and strong courage to decide and act, make sound judgment and improve problem-solving maturity. Besides leadership character, the right dose of charisma which may refer to the leader’s personality or style, no more, no less, improves leadership impact.
Authenticity is perhaps the prerequisite for character development and leadership maturity. Defining your true purpose is a helpful instrument to guide yourself toward the tough leadership journey continuously through lots of challenges to test your character. Strong character reveals authenticity, improves professionalism, and highlights leadership uniqueness; presents the combination of values, attitude, and integrity. Technically, there are psychological and personality factors in character. Character-based leaders and professionals have consistency to be who they are regardless of circumstances; show persistence to fulfill the vision, resilience to overcome barriers and fail forward.
Abstract conceptualization: Abstraction is the foundation of insight. Being insightful enables the leaders to think inside the box after thinking out of the box; know both forest and trees. Senior leaders play a critical role in setting principle and policies, hence, abstract thinking helps them differentiate substance from style, grasp the quintessential from outdated information or knowledge. To drive transformative change, insightful leaders are able to unify and harmonize by integrating diverse perspectives into abstract conceptualization, also able to translate the abstract concept back into the real world example or tell a compelling changing story fluently.
Wisdom is often abstract, abstract conceptualization enables business leaders to think conceptually on a higher level, perceive their business with both broader scope of abstraction and in-depth understanding of its interconnectivity and interdependence. They understand when to look further; when to look closer; when to step in and when to stay out. Open your mind, listen carefully, and expect to find some fresh insight. If abstraction is to make things brief, stories should be vivid enough to inspire imagination and persuasive enough to encourage comprehensive planning and step-by-step actions.
The creative leader's mind start asking the fundamental questions- 'why,' 'why not,' explore 'alternatives?', 'who' and 'who for' and 'what are lesson learned?' “feedback-feedforward,” and then, follow the courageous routes these questions take you, be prepared to stumble on the way. inspire people with a creative spirit to drive change and spur innovation.
The substances of leadership are about vision, positive influence, and progression. Leadership is not one dimensional, but needs to integrate lots of great ingredients, with a “big picture” in mind for harnessing collaboration and enhancing unification. It is imperative that "leadership" should be re-imagined, explored, understood and embraced for it to be of any value. The leadership maturity is based on the right mix of hard and soft elements, substance and style.
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