The Harvard Business Review has a useful article, ‘The Changing Role of Global Leaders’ by Matthew Gitsham.
Gitsham focuses on Unilever. CEO Paul Polman has presented a new strategy of goals for the year 2020.
The strategy exemplifies a number of the changes outlined in Serve to Lead:
Keep this question in front of you.
If you tell people the world is complicated, you’re not doing your job….They already know it’s complicated. Your job is to distill it, simplify it, and give them a sense of what is the single [cause], or what are a couple of powerful causes that explain this powerful phenomenon. –Samuel P. Huntington to his student, Fareed Zakaria
Amid the all the changes underway in leadership in all fields, it’s easy to get disoriented amid complexity.
This is entirely understandable. The rules are changing faster and faster, it seems. If you’re an incumbent, if you’re part of an establishment, your position is uncertain, in flux. The things that got you where you are won’t keep you where you are. They certainly won’t take you to the next level.
And yet, there are underlying, unifying forces at work. They’re so large, so omnipresent, that it’s easy to lose sight of them.
Heidrick & Struggles Vice Chairman Stephen Miles discusses, in this brief video, the need for companies to serve a much broader stakeholder group than in the past.
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New Apple CEO Tim Cook has broken ground, disclosing internal audits of suppliers.
Environmental, safety and health violations have been found and are being addressed.
Newsweek has published decades-old details of the life of Karen Santorum, spouse of presidential candidate Rick Santorum.
Are there no boundaries for personal privacy today?
Ben Lichtenwalner
Many thanks to Ben Lichtenwalner, the force behind the excellent Modern Servant Leader site, for including Serve to Lead in his Top 10 Servant Leadership Tweeters for 2012.
