From the multiple tasks, duties and roles expected, ascribed to or desired from the modern business leader, there is one that I would put well above anything else (and I really mean ‘ANYTHING ELSE’!) The ultimate responsibility of any business leader is the protection of time and the creation of ‘spaces’. In short, the leader as an architect. In my opinion, there are 3 dimensions of this leadership architecture:
- Time and space: good leaders build them, bad leaders destroy them. But in reality, these are vital assets for any organisation.
- Homes: leaders should build ‘homes’ for human capital, for relationships (social capital) and for ‘ways of doing’ (organisational capital).
- Legacy: what leaders leave behind DOES matter, because it has a direct impact on all of us. Unfortunately, this is usually explored a posteriori. Good leaders are conscious of their legacy all they time because they imagine and project a future.
And in the next few posts, I’ll be spending some time on those three dimensions. In the next post, I’ll start with ‘time’...
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