Diverse leadership and the Spanish idiosyncrasy [Fernando Botella, CEO of Think&Action]
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2024 9:25 am
Globalization does not imply uniformity, but rather enrichment through diversity. Organizations are looking for leaders capable of learning from different styles, of learning and adapting quickly to change , even when this means giving up their own beliefs.
In this context, there is no unique or best style , but rather characteristics of different cultures that are more appropriate to current and future conditions. This diverse leader bahamas email list 88272 contact leads would be born from a hybridization of cultural traits in which some elements of one's own culture would be discarded and others from outside would be incorporated.
Education also marks leadership
Focusing on Spanish leaders, it should be noted that one of the shortcomings that must be pointed out is not their responsibility. No one has ever bothered to teach them what it means to be a good leader . At least not in the early stages of their education. In its eagerness to give all boys and girls equal treatment based on equal opportunities, the educational system sometimes tends to ignore the leadership potential of the youngest, and so it is not cultivated.
If we add to this the complete absence of a business culture in training programmes, both at school and at university, we find that young people do not receive their first notions aimed at successfully leading work teams until the MBA . It is not that it is too late, but it does represent a disadvantage when we talk about global markets because it places these young people at a clear disadvantage. Without going any further, compared to their contemporaries in other countries, such as the Anglo-Saxons, where the germ of individual and business initiative is encouraged much earlier.
To err is for the wise, and for leaders
Another virtue of a modern leader that is more developed in Anglo-Saxon cultures than in Spanish and even European cultures is tolerance for error . The United States has been ahead for years in terms of implementing a redarchical rather than a hierarchical leadership style . In this style, the leader's stripes and the prevalence of his ideas are blurred in order to stimulate individual and collective initiative among team members.
In a context of maximum uncertainty such as the current one, the organizational cultures that best adapt and have the greatest chances of survival are those in which the future of the company does not depend on the genius of a single individual or a small elite group. The leader provides the vision and the drive, but does not hold exclusive rights over the ideas . In the most successful companies today, professionals are not punished by their bosses every time they make a mistake. Those organizations that know how to create an environment of trust in which employees feel that they are counted on and that their opinions are valued and required succeed. And this can only be achieved if leaders encourage and stimulate it. The value of a participative and collaborative culture is absolutely differentiating both in terms of competitiveness and the level of commitment of the staff.
In this context, there is no unique or best style , but rather characteristics of different cultures that are more appropriate to current and future conditions. This diverse leader bahamas email list 88272 contact leads would be born from a hybridization of cultural traits in which some elements of one's own culture would be discarded and others from outside would be incorporated.
Education also marks leadership
Focusing on Spanish leaders, it should be noted that one of the shortcomings that must be pointed out is not their responsibility. No one has ever bothered to teach them what it means to be a good leader . At least not in the early stages of their education. In its eagerness to give all boys and girls equal treatment based on equal opportunities, the educational system sometimes tends to ignore the leadership potential of the youngest, and so it is not cultivated.
If we add to this the complete absence of a business culture in training programmes, both at school and at university, we find that young people do not receive their first notions aimed at successfully leading work teams until the MBA . It is not that it is too late, but it does represent a disadvantage when we talk about global markets because it places these young people at a clear disadvantage. Without going any further, compared to their contemporaries in other countries, such as the Anglo-Saxons, where the germ of individual and business initiative is encouraged much earlier.
To err is for the wise, and for leaders
Another virtue of a modern leader that is more developed in Anglo-Saxon cultures than in Spanish and even European cultures is tolerance for error . The United States has been ahead for years in terms of implementing a redarchical rather than a hierarchical leadership style . In this style, the leader's stripes and the prevalence of his ideas are blurred in order to stimulate individual and collective initiative among team members.
In a context of maximum uncertainty such as the current one, the organizational cultures that best adapt and have the greatest chances of survival are those in which the future of the company does not depend on the genius of a single individual or a small elite group. The leader provides the vision and the drive, but does not hold exclusive rights over the ideas . In the most successful companies today, professionals are not punished by their bosses every time they make a mistake. Those organizations that know how to create an environment of trust in which employees feel that they are counted on and that their opinions are valued and required succeed. And this can only be achieved if leaders encourage and stimulate it. The value of a participative and collaborative culture is absolutely differentiating both in terms of competitiveness and the level of commitment of the staff.