The new habits of influential leaders
In the 1980s and 1990s, business was dominated by big corporations. The watering holes were august institutions such as the CBI and Institute of Directors, where portly leaders arrived in chau?eur-driven cars for extremely long lunches. Favours were dished out on the golf courses of the Home Counties.
Then came the new millennium, and ‘dot-com’ entrepreneurs started making their presence felt. Bright young things such as Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox brought rock-star glamour to the fusty corridors of in?uence. The co-founders of Lastminute.com didn’t wear ties but they did make money, and that gained them entry to the ranks of the in?uential.
Scroll forward to 2017, and the traditional order has been well and truly routed. Old corporations have shriveled in the face of relentless digital assault.
Today, an alternative elite of modern-thinking managers dominates business. These leaders, The New In?uential, shun ‘old school’ habits and mindsets. They operate to a new set of norms and, for them, business and management should dance to a new, disruptive tune.
What are the characteristics of today’s in?uential leaders then? What can you learn from them? And how do your daily habits stack up against those of the management elite?