Every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about leadership cliches, leadership development problems, accelerating leadership development, and redefining talent.
From Georg Vielmetter and Yvonne Sell: Kicking Leadership Clichés
“In ‘Leadership 2030: The six megatrends you need to understand to lead your company into the future,’ we outline the repercussions of the convergence of globalization 2.0, the environmental crisis, increased individualism and value pluralism, digitization, demographic change and technological convergence. As these six megatrends develop in parallel, each feeds on and intensifies the others. The meaning of leadership is changing, as are the skills it requires. In this new era, old work clichés will no longer apply, and new ones will evolve in their places.”
From Gordon Curphy, Robert Hogan, and Robert B. Kaiser: The Problem With Leadership Development
“During the past two decades, learning executives have persuaded U.S. corporations to double their annual spending on various forms of leadership development to $14 billion. Yet over that same period, public confidence in leadership has dropped considerably. According to a 2012 poll by The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University, 70 percent of Americans believe there is a leadership crisis that will lead to a national decline unless we find better leaders.”
From Joyce Gioia: The need to accelerate leadership development
“According to recent worldwide research, conducted in partnership between the Human Capital Institute and the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, ’47 percent of survey respondents highlight gaps in knowledge between current and future leaders as an important issue in their organizations’. Obviously, the solution is to speed up the development of new leaders. However, the increasing pace of change in our knowledge economy and a lengthening of the global learning curve complicate this situation.”
From Anne Fulton: It’s High Time We Start Redefining Talent for the 22nd Century
“Astonishingly, only 5 percent of organizations attempted to adjust their conception of what ‘talent’ meant for their organization to align with strategic aims and coming business challenges.”
