Leadership in challenging times
By Rajesh Setty on Wed 28 Sep 2005, 8:03 PM - 3 Comments
That was the topic of my talk at Cisco as part of the “Beyond Code Tour” organized by NetIP San Francisco Chapter.
I have posted new album with photos from the talk at Flickr.
The theme of the talk was simple. There is a rapid acceleration in the
rate of change and it’s only going to get worse moving forward. We need
new skills to lead and manage in this new world. Also, the skills and
tools required for tomorrow may not even be available today. That means
it is imperative that we need to start learning how to learn rapidly so
that we are prepared to adapt tomorrow.
It was a fun group and there were a ton of questions. Sometime in the
future I will post a mindmap summarizing the key points from the talk.
It was mainly for the “Lead” chapter in “Beyond Code“
- The Leadership Challenge
- Leadership is as simple as filling in the blanks
- The Paradox of Experience
- Quotes worth recording – Dennis Pear
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Anonymous on September 29th, 2005
You’re really hit on a key point that the needed skills aren’t even identified yet, Rajesh. As humankind becomes more and more adept at the digital decomposition of products and services and delivering them to the market at the lowest quality-to-cost mix (see Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat), each person must really scrutinize how they add value in the chain. As many of those decomposition processes are still works-in-process, we must pay close attention and stay nimble in order to figure out how and were we make our value contribution.