Leadership is about to get more uncomfortable, with increased transparency, integration, complexity, and a faster pace of change. There will be further blurring of the line between personal and professional. Command-and-control hierarchies are flattening. Egocentric leadership will not find success; conversely, power will come from a focus on others: "altrocentric" leaders will "draw strength and satisfaction from teaching, teambuilding, and empowering others," posit the authors in their July 1, 2014 Harvard Business Review blog.
While personally encouraging in that they tend to align in large part with my own preferred leadership approach, these megatrends (Vielmetter & Sell, 2014) mandate profound change in the large organizations that make up the fabric of our society: governments, corporations, and large nonprofits that have traditionally employed a hierarchical structure and leadership approach.
I am going to take away (and keep) a techno-leadership quote that resonated: "Leaders must acquire digital wisdom, even if they lack digital knowledge."
Vielmetter, G. & Sell, Y. (2014). Leadership 2030: The six megatrends you need to understand to lead your company into the future. New York: AMACOM.
