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Friday, October 6, 2023

Six Things Transformative Leaders Do

 

Six Things Transformative Leaders Do

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Abstract

This paper is a synopsis of six things transformative leaders do to ensure a business survives and progressively advances towards its long-term goals amid the volatile, unstable, complex and ambiguous environmental conditions of the 21st century. The author draws this synopsis from previous research reviewing, 1) scholarly published papers, academic literature and empirical studies accessed through online scholarly search engines and knowledge bases, dated 2010 onwards, documenting and offering theoretical, conceptual and philosophical frameworks on the emergence of transformative leadership to help leaders profitably navigate the challenges of a chaotic, crisis ridden world, and 2) analysis of published case study data on African CEOs celebrated for successfully turning around failing businesses and posting outstanding outcomes in depressed local economic conditions. The paper suggests that business survival calls for higher skill sets than simply outsmarting the competition, keeping up with evolving customers or managing the bottom-line. Rather, transformative leaders facilitate irreversible transcendent change to ensure business survival, sustainability and long-term success. While conventional theory suggests that apex leaders should take direct control of business operations, transformative leaders install a vibrant business culture where leadership responsibility is shared with empowered followers. They keep the business abreast of the evolving economic environment by maintaining a profitable, responsive and creative tension between the business readiness to change and the impact of external forces altering the environmental landscape. In this paper the researcher uses classic, contemporary and current leadership theory to anchor its findings.

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Leading Transcendent Change

 

Essential Skills for Leaders in Turbulent Times 


We are living in turbulent times and a whole new combination of skills and competencies are required to navigate a Volatile, Unpredictable, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world. Business leaders and leaders in all sectors of society and the economy need to bunker down and rethink their leadership approach to getting things done! The Concept of Leading TRANSCENDENT Change is not your normal change leadership program. It is based on Published Research. "Six Things Transformative Leaders Do" is based on a four years of study in search of an Afrocentric Business Leadership Model that will help local leaders ensure their business are able to survive, and indeed thrive, in turbulent economic environments. Here is the action plan; click one, or act on all THREE options below today;

1. Register here for the webinar before the 17th of October 2023,  

2. Down load the very readable research, or the best option 

3.Contact me on email and we can pick up the discussion on how I can run this program for your organisations leadership team. 

Warm regards,


   

Sunday, October 1, 2023

Corruption cure

 Corruption exists because systems do not work, not because people are corrupt!