The way in which people work, interact, and transact has drastically changed, but we're still following the same dated leadership model from the industrial age---an unrecognizable time when knowledge was scarce, talent seemingly limited and privacy still possible.
We now live and work in an age where everyone and everything is connected, ordinary people are highly empowered, and leaders stand completely exposed. In this era, the way to lead is with an open-source leadership style, argues Rajeev Peshawaria, author of OPEN SOURCE LEADERSHIP. The book is based on original research with contrarian findings. At a time when democratic and all-inclusive leadership is all the rage.
"In order to create an environment in which the next generations can thrive, we need to take today's challenges head-on. We need to recognize that current thinking around leadership will not be adequate to do so, and redefine leadership away from follower-ship," Peshawaria explains.
Great leadership has nothing to do with shallow external symbols of personality and charisma. Instead it has everything to do with character, which is deep and internal.
Good leaders and bad leaders come in all personality types. There is not an ideal personality profile in determining leadership potential.
The leader in you is born when two things happen to you simultaneously. First, you feel deeply about the inadequacies of current reality, and second, you decide to do something about it. Both must occur together for leadership to surface.
Whether we like it or not, the open source era is upon us. Rather than trying to resist the trends shaping society, we need to accept the new reality and ask ourselves what we need to change about ourselves and our organizations to compete at our full potential.
Source: Rajeev Peshawaria: Open Source Leadership: Reinventing Management When There’s No More Business as Usual
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