The Business Bulletin Issue #8 - Focus On Strategy & Personal Development

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The Business Bulletin

The 7 steps to Frontier Leadership Today we are at a frontier that is challenging our received wisdoms about how to work, where to work and what to work on. The Coronavirus pandemic is a genuine, never before experienced event, that is disrupting everything.

All leaders are in uncharted territory.

we predicted. Here’s what else has

in the world. Or the face-to-face

How they respond will determine the

changed.

services you deliver, could be replaced

success of their ventures for the next

by an app. We challenged leaders to

decade or more. What is certain is

Pause

that leaders cannot wait for this crisis

It is too easy, when so much is

their beliefs about their operating

to be over before acting. They need to

changing, to feel the need to do

models and how they behaved as

start shaping the new normal.

something, anything. In fact, it

leaders were genuinely suited to

becomes even more critical to stop

these challenging times.

Our research two years ago into

critically examine the extent to which

how leaders were thinking, acting

and reflect first – to pause and really

and operating, led to the first version

challenge yourself and crucially to

this necessary moment of reflection

of The 7 Steps to Frontier Leadership.

examine your purpose.

– does your organisation’s purpose

We found too many leaders operating in their comfort zones, often because

Taking the time to really

But a new question has arisen in

still make sense in the emerging

understand the context of your

world? So many people have been

organisation and the challenges

forced to stop and pause and really

were far from the frontier where they

it faced was always important and

think about what they want from life.

needed to be.

two years’ ago we highlighted

Yes, there is huge pressure for the

how infrequently and narrowly

economy to re-start, but people don’t

needed to be at the ‘frontier’. The

organisations do this. Despite

want to work the way they did, they

pandemic has done nothing to

the pandemic, globalisation and

don’t want to buy the things they

change this view and in fact Covid

technology still mean your next

did, or interact the way they did. As

has accelerated some of the changes

competitor could be based anywhere

society re-examines its values and as

they didn’t know what else to do. They

Our contention was that leaders

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