We need MORE CONSCIOUS LIMITLESS LEADERS for Thriving in Tough VUCA Times, and Rebooting from Corona Constraints.
Tony Dovale SWIFT Mindset lifemasters.co.za
??People Performance Enabler ?Limitless Leadership Developer ??High Performance Team Builder - ?Organizational Culture Transformer ??Strategy Planning Facilitator ? Mindset Shifter
Bullet-Proof, Conscious, LIMITLESS Leadership Creates a Consciously Constructive workplace with High-Performance People and Teams… That Deliver Exponential Results. It's the real leaders, not Greeders*, who develop high impact & more conscious LIMITLESS Leadership effectiveness in themselves, and on ALL the levels below them.
The function of leadership is to create positive direction, energy, cohesion, commitment, commitment, and fiercely-focused SWIFT action, towards a planned & agreed, MEANINGFUL or valuable…destination, in a sane, sustainable, way.
* Greeders – Cold heartless people in leadership positions, who only care about the money and shareholders.
Effective leadership optimises resources, and activates, even stretches, and EXPANDS, the fullest potentials of people, teamwork, and organisational culture.
It also makes sure that leaders are being developed within the lower organisational strata, to empower the greatest response-agility, & flexibility to ever-changing conditions or constraints.
The LIMITLESS Leadership Framework covers the vital aspects of effective REVOLUTIONARY WORKPLACE High-Performance leadership required to create #FutureFit People, Teams and Organisations, that can Connect, Communicate, Collaborate, Conquer and thrive, in today’s VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Chaotic, Ambiguous) world.
Leadership is about creating what could-be, should-be, can-be, and will-be. Leadership is about the disruption of the status quo. Leadership is the front-edge-of-the-wedge, that creates more meaning, mastery, movement, momentum, and magic.
Leadership enables magic to happen, as passionate people connect, communicate, collaborate, and fully commit their greatest potential, to create extraordinary RESULTS, in a manner that is human, planet, and business positive.
LIMITLESS leadership is about honoring people*, planet, AND profits. Creating exponential impacts and results that truly matter, in a sustainable, and regenerative context, with intentions that go beyond – just more profits.
* People FIRST! - With financial sanity as the foundation for ensuring survival and thriving for ALL.
Learning & Listening
First of all LIMITLESS Leadership is about Learning and Listening. Leaders are readers. All leaders have to learn to see with new eyes, hear with open ears, to see new possibilities and potential, in the existing business landscape.
In the VUCA world, leaders have to learn to handle and assimilate, masses of complex signals and information. From this, they must learn and discern, what is important and what is not.
They must also learn to distill and simplify the deluge of information into simple, communicable, repeatable, messages and formats, so that staff at the lower levels can quickly understand, propagate, and act intelligently on the information.
Informed & Integrity
Successful leaders are always informed. They are informed about what’s happening within the organisation, as well as outside. They scan, listen, and consolidate a wide variety of signals, that are used to project, conject, and decide.
They are informed about challenges, constraints, and competitive issues. Leaders stay informed about the effective and functional performance constraints, and capacities, of their RESOURCES: people, teams, management, leadership, and organisational potential. As well and the commercial business resources of finances, stocks, staff, systems, IT, etc.
Conscious leaders also ensure that they are appropriately informed about matters beyond their organisation, into the market, and the larger business and planet landscape. They are forward thinkers, who use their resources with the utmost integrity for the greater long-term good.
Leaders look forwards to stay informed of potential threats, and new opportunities, from multiple directions, internally and externally.
They do this with Integrity and authenticity as their Integrity and trustworthiness, is the core foundation of their power: Credibility, influence, and consequence.
Meaningful & Masterful
In an ever-changing world in order to harness, and activate, optimum staff and team potentials, LIMITLESS Leaders must create greater meaning and energy, to engage, grow, and retain talent.
More money for shareholders has very little meaning for the newer generations. Meaning must be engendered above money if companies are to thrive.
If you’re going to adequately activate, and retain, the fullest potentials of your staff, it is very clear from the existing low engagement numbers that the typical workplace context, content, & process, needs to be revised substantially.
Managing miserable, and unmotivated, staff who have become highly disengaged is a problem that most managers or leaders are often unable to effectively and sustainably solve. “Meaning” is the currency of the new generations.
It is only with more meaning and self-mastery, that we can begin to get our people to be more excited about what is happening in the workplace, and the world of work, and their futures.
Leadership is also about mastery of self and the team… a constant focus on growing awareness, consciousness, capacity, credibility, and commitment.
Incremental & Inspiring
In the new world of work with high levels of complexity and rapid changes in knowledge bases, effective leaders ensure that all staff are incrementally (Consciously Constructive) trained towards higher levels of self-mastery, team mastery, leadership mastery, and business mastery.
Staff needs to be growing and learning something new every single day. To Thrive and be inspiring and inspiring, we need constant re-invention, which requires new thinking, new seeing, and new more responsive, agile, actions.
The concept of “nibble knowledge” is fast being applied to the workplace where staff are able to learn regularly and incrementally, valuable “nibbles” or bits-of-requisite-knowledge, that are directly relevant to their present and prevailing situation, contexts, circumstances, and challenges.
Trusted & Truthful
In a digital, everything-connected- all-the-time, a world where messages travel at the speed of light, and secrets are seldom secret, trust and truthfulness are key character traits vital for a credible, and respected, leader.
If people don’t trust you they will not fully commit to your initiatives. If you are not truthful it is an almost certainty that somewhere, someway, somehow, the truth will come out.
All you have to do is look at the political landscape to see how the digital world is laying bare the atrocities, and inconsistencies, of leaders across the globe for all, to see and judge.
For a leader to remain credible and keep team cohesion continuing, qualities and character of; trustworthy and truthful are non-negotiable. To ignore this wisdom is a big leadership de-railer!
Followers will only tolerate low integrity, deceit, lies, and greedership, for so long, before there is a revolution in mindset, attitude, and commitment. Dis-engagement is the consequence. Just look at how low global levels are.
Love & Legacy
There is a big shift in consciousness in the world today. From a time when “bean-counters” ran businesses and only money mattered, there is a shift to a more conscious, caring, and empathetic or compassionate, mindset and approach, that is starting to be seen in many organisations.
Gone are the days of “slavery” for many, but not all, people. And it’s about time too. LIMITLESS leaders learn to bring love into the workplace.
To create a place where people love to come to work. To create work that people love to do. To create relationships where people can respect and love another human being enough to see them as equal.
We have come a distance from the master-and-slave mindset, and the top-down command and control, archaic attitudes, that were handed down from the fighting and dominating “WAR-style” mindset.
If we’re going to get the best staff performance and support the thriving and well-being of people, planet, AND profit, to create long-term sustainable success, we have to learn to bring the softer skills into the workplace.
Because Soft Skills ARE the HARD skills for LIMITLESS Leaders and High-Performance Teams. Even more so in tough times, like now. Compassion, EQ, and Conscious leadership are vital in these precarious times.
This starts with love. It starts with loving and respecting yourself first. And from there we can start to begin to build real robust relevant respectful relationships that create a #FutureFit Revolutionary Workplace that benefits all.
Empowered to Decide, and Act
Leadership in today’s challenges means that we have to distribute capability, responsibility, and authority, down to the frontline. We have to empower people to make decisions at the point of contact, at the coalface, where the action happens each second.
The competition and demand for high-performance and high-speed service has relentlessly been pressurised and squeezed down to just seconds.
Where we used to wait weeks for letters to be delivered and to get responses, we now get irritated when we don’t get a response to an email, Whatsapp, SMS or any digital communication in moments.
We have to firstly choose the right people with the right mindset that fits your culture. Then we have to train and upskill them on the products or services.
And then you have to upskill them on how to think, decide, and act, in all sorts of high-pressure situations and circumstances. Because, no longer can leaders and managers be at the frontline every second, for every decision, for every problem.
We have to empower people to think clearly and smartly, to decide and take action in a way that ensures service excellence and business sanity.
People have to be empowered to be creative and innovative in the way they solve problems, service clients create new potential for revenue and relevant offerings.
For many leaders, this is a scary step...but a vital one if you’re going to create high-performance people, teamwork, leadership, and culture.
Sustainability Focused – REMEMBER: Life Rafts DON’T HAVE Life Rafts!
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will be aware of the many threats to the planet and humanity.
From climate change to carbon overload, to oxygen depletion, to water shortages, to ocean acidification, to fishery depletion, and all of those things that go to sustain life on this fragile blue marble we call home.
With politicians posturing and businesses profiteering, who will stand up and speak for Mother Earth and our future?
Who will think sanely and secure the future for our future generations?
Who will be the ones to say no more wasting of our limited natural resources, purely for greed?
Who will be the one to say this insanity must stop? Who will Stop us NOW?
Will it be you that moves from the low consciousness of greedership to true LIMITLESS leadership? Will it be you that sensitises their staff and teams to the threats we pose to ourselves and this fragile planet?
Will it be you that innovates, gets creative, with how we can be more conscious, considerate, and caring moving forward sustainably?
If not you, then who? For surely our children will look back and ask where were the leaders? What were they thinking?
Did they not care about OUR future?
What was their level of intelligence?
What drove them to stupidity?
Greed? Avarice? Unconsciousness? Ignorance?
Or just pure lack of any true care for creating a consciously sustainable system?
Strengths-Based Synergy
With all of the work of Gallup and Howard Gardener on strengths and talents, we learn that we all come to this planet with a wide range of differing talents, gifts, and strengths.
Time is too short to worry about a total focus on fixing all of our weaknesses because it focuses on the past, and we waste energy with worries about weakness.
If we are smart and act SWIFTLY and intelligently we will focus on our strengths. We will collaborate, communicate, connect, and create, by putting our strengths together. And building real teamwork.
For only in this way will we begin to understand how interdependent we are upon each other. We do need each other.
We need each other’s strengths. When need each other’s buy-in to create a brighter, better, bolder, and more sustainable and inclusive future for ALL.
The reality is that a very small percentage of people are real leaders. And if left to their own devices many people will avoid stepping up, taking the risks, taking the responsibility, and creating the desired results.
The world desperately needs real CONSCIOUS TRUSTWORTHY Leaders. We need leaders of LIMITLESS hope, resilience, and commitment.
We need leaders of LIMITLESS love, care, and compassion, who will guide us all through the storms and challenges.
We need leaders who are LIMITLESS in their dedication and commitment to gathering up everybody, building better teamworking, and guiding us along an adventure, to a better, brighter, bolder, more sustainable future.
And my hope is that one of those CONSCIOUS LIMITLESS Leaders… is YOU!
Especially during these challenging times – we need more LIMITLESS Leaders – everywhere if we are to reboot or restart and recover to our fullest potentials, in a manner that truly honors People, Planet, AND Profits.
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