Change Leadership is about keeping your nose CLEAN

Leadership is about keeping your nose CLEAN. That’s what I tell my students at LaSalle Business School when we discuss modern leadership in the context of business transformation.

For me, a leader is a person who tunes in with other people in thought, word and action at such a level that these people feel confident with- and respect that person to act with him or her, and other members of his team, to achieve a common goal.

"Being consistent, being loyal, empathic and authentic is who you are, not what you can learn"

CLEAN is an acronym I made up to help remember that there is only so much one can learn about leadership and that it is truly about keeping your nose clean.

- Consistent between what you think, say and do, between heart and head.

- Loyal to your values, beliefs and your team.

- Empathic, able to put yourself in the place of the other because you know yourself.

- Authentic and totally comfortable with yourself and your actions, dialoguing, negotiating, capable of agglutinating.

- Networker by nature, capable of creating and maintaining collaborative networks.

"Authenticity is detected quickly because it is not possible to deceive throughout the day."

There is more to it, but the person who truly keeps his nose CLEAN has the base to be or become a good leader because he has the right mindset and attitude. Being consistent, being loyal, empathic and authentic is who you are, not what you can learn. Teams work as a lie detector 24/7. They can tell in near real-time if a person is a leader or not. Above all, authenticity is detected quickly because it is not possible to deceive throughout the day. Their – the employees - perception of leadership decides if a project will live or die, NOT the MANAGEMENT!

Our new www.RealTimeChange.es/en method is based on these facts:

1) There is no change without true leadership, they are two sides of the same coin.

2) You have to measure. Leadership is detectable. As is the lack of it. We ask the team in real-time, using cutting-edge technology.

3) Deviations – not enough leadership - are partially correctable, but not for all. We act on both.

4) It must be corrected quickly. The method works in cycles of 100 days, filtering, correcting, cleaning...

5) It is valid for every person with some responsibility for another person in the organization. There cannot be any exceptions, no favors, no ties, and no debts worth to anyone.

If you are excited about the above reading and do not mind innovating, it is because you have the mindset of a leader. In that case, we offer you an effective, fast, economical and disruptive work method called www.realtimechange.es/en. It’s the CM method for the True Leader.