Why leaders become leaders | KIC April Highlights

BUSINESS: Why leaders become leaders

INSPIRATION: How to create a high-performance team / Remote Culture / Serendipity

PLEASURE: LOREMO x FAMTAIN / FeMentor x Paula's Choice

BUSINESS

Why leaders become leaders

Not every leader becomes a leader because they want to lead and develop other people and help them get better. Some leaders become leaders because it’s simply the next logical step in their career.

Last month a follower on Whyzzer sent me this question:

?How can companies empower leaders to find their purpose? According to a Harvard study, only 20 percent of leaders know their individual purpose.“

Since Simon Sinek’s bestseller book we have all known about the impact of purpose: Start with Why (your purpose) to be successful - personally and on a company level.

My answer contains a potentially rather unpopular thought: Purpose-driven leadership = absence of ego

Not every leader becomes a leader because they want to lead and develop other people and help them get better.

Some leaders become leaders because it’s simply the next logical step in their career.

To feed their ego.

But purpose-driven leadership means the absence of ego, to be truly interested in people.

So, coming back to the question my follower sent to me: How can companies empower leaders to find their true purpose? By helping them find out what their core motivation is:

To further advance in their career?

Or a genuine interest in people, to be connected with humans and seeing them strive?

Definitely do ?Start with WHY.“

INSPIRATION

TO READ

?Average leaders talk about their success. Great leaders teach others how to achieve the same success.“

Currently reading Teamwork: How to build a high-performance team?by Natalie Dawson , Co-Founder and President of Cardone Ventures .

Super helpful to make the intangible leadership, people & culture business more tangible - and to duplicate your growth & success as a leader.

TO WATCH

Remote Culture x Asynchronous Work & its benefits by Christoph Magnussen:

- Less interruptions

- Higher flexibility

- Improved knowledge management

- Enabler for a remote culture

TO LISTEN

Podcast with Christian Busch on Serendipity (German) - insights on business impacts included!

PLEASURE

LOREMO Art Vernissage at FAMTAIN MEMBER CLUB

Thank you dear Franziska Scheuerle and congratulations on your first Vernissage - many more to come!

FeMentor x Paula's Choice Skincare Europe - Unilever Prestige at Mindspace Munich

Thank you dear Anastasia Barner for an evening filled with inspiring encounters (you definitely know how to match likeminded people!) & female empowerment.