Creating the Right Leadership for the Future
This past month during our firm’s senior leadership team meeting, we watched a video from Boss.tv featuring Liane Hornsey, vice president, Operations at Google. The smartest CEOs and their teams are asking how to develop the right leadership for the future.
Creating organizational responsibilities and defined accountabilities sets the right culture when vision, mission and core values are identified. As companies grow, they need to evaluate their leadership and how to deploy and prioritize financial resources to achieve talent growth with discipline.
The velocity of growth exposes leadership deficiencies. Some senior people want to learn and grow, while others are satisfied to function in a linear way. This resistance is understandable but creates an unsustainable model for the business enterprise.
As leaders are limited by the number of hours in the day and number of decisions that can be made, combined with the unending amounts of information available, leaders need to accept accountability, own their responsibilities and lead. This is a spiritual challenge that requires inspirational leadership.
Liane Hornsey sheds fascinating light on this subject by sharing Google’s hiring practices, how they build a culture of innovation, the biggest HR mistakes they have made and how they manage conflict. The most important learning, and one that she describes as a “light bulb” moment, was when she finally recognized that her success in business was about the people around her being successful.