21st Century Leaders make Excellent Business Partners
Dec 2010
The strategies for managing our business organizations have required a major overhaul. The Command-and-Control style no longer works in the 21st Century. Similarly, the way we have been managing our business partnerships is no longer effective. Witness the 80% failure rate in business partnerships.
The changes we have had to make in the area of leadership in organizations are equally valid for operating in business partnerships.
Following are the key ingredients for the new leadership which apply to business partnerships as well.
21st Century Leadership is about
Service
- Respecting Each Other
- Honoring our Employees
- Over-responding to our Customers
- Caring for Community, the Environment and the World
Character
- Short term sacrifice for long term gain
- Speaking with integrity
- Acting with integrity
- Relying on discipline, not emotion
- Responding with wisdom rather than react from impulse
- Living humbly for a cause
Courage
- Speaking our truth
- Willing to have the difficult conversation
- Saying clearly what we need
- Setting healthy boundaries
- Making unpopular decisions
- Giving our “power” away
- Risking to do things that are difficult
- Taking a clear stand in times of challenge and controversy
Vision
- To make the unthinkable possible
- To see what is right with the world, not what is wrong with it
- To make adding value our goal
- To keep the value of material possessions in perspective
- To look behind us– what have we learned?
- To look ahead of us – what is the big picture?
Which ones of these are you applying successfully in your partnership? In which of the listed areas would you like assistance? We stand ready to help. Please call us at 603-763-9770
