You’re heading a department or team, and your company has restructured, as a result you have 50% less a team and twice more work as a department! Sound familiar?
Leaders are left to burden the responsibility of change, restructuring and innovation. The theme is ‘get more done with less resources. But the question is, how do you deal as leader? It’s down to the ABC’s of leadership according to Professor Hill.
Harvard Professor Linda Hill coauthored a book called Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation. The word ‘innovation’ focuses on engaging people, identifying potential, and streamlining business practices using new ways of getting things done. So, things get done much faster and by the best people doing the right things in this cross functional world we live in!
In the Collective Genius, Professor Linda A. Hill talks about leaders having vision and focusing on culture alone is not enough. They must be willing to co-create and looking at the strengths within your team and the cross functional teams and the multitude of stakeholders that we can align and collaborate to get things done and done well.
Linda talks about leaders being 3 things. The ABC’s of leadership. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME5arjlSTGQ&t=136s
A: Architect: Build your company’s culture and capabilities for innovation.
B: Bridger: Forge partnerships outside your organization.
C: Catalyst: Accelerate co-creation across the entire ecosystem.
Managing change is even tougher than ever before and leaders need to learn to innovate business practices and re-think the meaning of teams to get a head. Remember, everyone has a slice of genius, your role as a leader is to unleash the diverse slices for success.
Dinesh Karna – Chief Facilitator & Co MD, AspireUP Consultancy