Emerging Leadership and the Future

As we begin the conversation, we should explore what we mean by an emerging market.?This can be described as an undeveloped subject (be it an investment market, a country or a technology) with high growth potential. This lead me onto the thought process of emerging leaders and emerging leadership within the workplace and encouraging us to look at them through a similar lens. Of course, with this comes an element of risk, due to the higher growth potential than something more established, which means, the risk increases.

When companies around the globe begin looking deeper into this subject we can see the enormous potential that is all around us, there are emerging leaders in every office, who could, potentially be the future leaders of your company, a competitor, a start-up or maybe the next world leaders. They need to be developed and their skills need a chance to breathe, which inevitably puts the company into a place of taking an intelligent risk on the best emerging talent.

Like emerging markets, they won't always be upfront and central, they won't always be wanting to be in the limelight. Emerging leaders will do things differently and often be accomplishing amazing things without the majority of people knowing they are even being done. They are innovative and thoughtful, full of ideas and even will know what it is like to fail. Remember, we mentioned that even with the high growth potential, there is also a higher risk associated with them. Risk shouldn't scare us away, but instead it should let us look at intelligently before moving forwards.

Our biggest risks can lead to our greatest success.?I am more convinced each day that emerging leaders globally have the potential to win us the future.

Many aspects of the future are unknown, however, we have the ability to influence and impact an entire generation of emerging leaders that can go onto accomplish even greater things than we have seen from the current generation of leaders. This has always been an incredibly important subject, now more than ever and we have to continually look at how we are releasing and transforming emerging leaders into the leaders that can change the world, making it better in every direction.

How do we continue to do this? Isn't this happening already? What can we do differently? Here are a few questions that I will share my thoughts on, at the very heart of it is a passion to see emerging leaders trained, released, given permission to fail and then show the world a way of leadership that surpasses anything that has come before. The future needs winning, it needs to be a better place for future generations, there is a global risk but there is also a global reward at stake.

Giving the best of you to emerging leaders

In many organizations across the globe this is happening and it is so important that it is done in every strand of business and field. Cultivating emerging leaders by giving them your best which can be done in many ways. Give them your best advice, passing onto them the best knowledge you can, give them your time, not only your time but the time of which you are best.

As leaders you will notice emerging talent/leaders coming to you asking to spend time with you, to glean some of your knowledge, surrounding themselves with leaders they want to be learn from. They are taking intelligent risks in reaching out, having a desire to in someway grow themselves as leaders (even if it goes largely unnoticed) and in turn grow the company and/or field in which they are part of. In return for these intelligent risks leaders can give back to them their best, knowing that they will become even greater leaders than themselves.

Building frameworks that change the world

It all begins with an idea and then a conversation, building a framework of success that will ultimately change the world. In looking at examples of leadership, companies can act as great leaders in their own right. For instance, LinkedIn is working to develop a framework to change the professional world and create economic opportunity for every professional and I am amazed at the growing impact of this.

The fact of it all is that leadership matters. Our leaders today all have the opportunity to help influence and impact the emerging leaders of tomorrow and win us the future. Apple continues to build frameworks that amaze and change the world, the iMac, the iPhone and the iPad all impacted the technology space in an incredible way. Facebook radically built a social online framework that has influenced billions of people, all these companies have been led, designed and managed by great leaders who were once emerging leaders.

I heard?Mike Gamson speak previously on intelligent risks and the importance of evaluating the upside to downside, determining how much you stand to benefit in success and how much you could lose in failure. When we are looking at emerging leaders or at this subject then the upside is huge, if we don't do these things globally then the risk is ultimately huge as well.

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