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The ultimate purpose of leadership is to generate more leaders, and spread out leadership influence.

Leadership is about vision and direction, making positive influences and inspiring progressive changes. Contemporary leadership competencies are interrelated with traits and expertise, being built on the foundation of the moral competencies: wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance, etc. Great leadership has all sorts of ingredients for deepening influence and leading the organizations forward smoothly

Leadership & reconciliation: The digital era upon us is about diversification and people-centricity. An effective leader is a means toward reconciling all the different factors for a unifying and driving motivation, inspiring changes constantly. Great leaders demonstrate agile mindset, congruent attitude, interdisciplinary expertise, empathetic communication, exemplary behavior to keep the change momentum and sustain change effect. They ask right questions, not get stuck in bureaucracy, become part of the solution, not part of the problem.

As the business transformation continues, what is “best” yesterday will not always be the best tomorrow. This long standing conundrum becomes fundamental to reconcile by adding fresh ingredients and baking in the culture of learning agility. Insightful leaders spend time on setting good policies, understanding of the global business ecosystem; communicating, coordinating, or operating, with stakeholders of all stripes for achieving high value and making leapfrog progression.

Leadership & responsibility: Regardless of which position you take in the organization, you take responsibility and you grow with it. The higher rank of position you take, the more responsibility you have. Leaders or managers at different levels are decidedly different and are held to a different magnitude of expectations; the common denominator to each one of them is the responsibility they carry.

More responsibility doesn't always mean to make your schedule extremely busy. Great leaders delegate significant part of their work to others and hold each other accountable for achieving common goals and producing high performance results. To reach the high level of leadership maturity, it’s about trying to determine which competencies or capabilities should be used in which combination, to solve certain problems and amplify leadership influence. Good leaders take responsibility for what they say and do. The way organizations manage their commitments is an expression and reflection of management’s integrity.

Leadership & gravity: Today’s leaders need to deal with constant ambiguity and unprecedented uncertainty, they naturally gravitate to a leadership role when things are unknown, things will change. Leadership gravity means solid character, humble attitude to deal with tough problems and thorny issues. Leadership is about how you can generate a specific energy in yourself to create the authentic impact you choose consciously and consistently.

A wise leader does need the “gravity” in the mind; be confident and humble at the same time; shows that style is no substitute for substance, knowing certain facts is not more powerful than simple wisdom. As gravitas can be defined to mean substance, seriousness, or dignified demeanor. It also means consistency, persistence, steadiness, confidence. It takes the breadth of understanding of the situation and depth of insight upon circumstances to have a nature magnet to cause so-called gravitas.

The ultimate purpose of leadership is to generate more leaders, and spread out leadership influence. To innovate leadership and improve leadership maturity, it is necessary to identify key ingredients and take them along on the journey of change, manifesting trustworthiness and influence to accomplish common goals collaboratively.

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