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Specific Responsibilities and Expertise
Requirements
As a
corporate executive of your firm, you have a critical responsibility
for the direction and successful operation of all
business units within your organization. You must think innovatively
about how your company can create
sustainable business value. By its nature, corporate leadership involves
a complex set of issues that demands a certain cross-unit expertise, which
seldom is achieved through management experience at the business-unit level.
You must search for
synergies and explore achievements that are possible at the corporate
level through cross-unit activity and the development of entirely new growth
opportunities.
The Tao of Business Success
The Tao
teaches you the art of living and
doing business in accord with reality. It gives you advice that imparts
perspective and
balance.
It applies equally well to the
managing of a large corporation or the running of a small business, to
the governing of a nation or the leading a small team, to
your personal development
or to the
coaching of others.
Business Architect
Business architect is a person
that initiates
new business ventures or leads
business innovation, designs a winning
business model, and builds a sustainable
balanced business system for a lasting success. In today's knowledge-
and innovation-driven complex economy, business architects are in growing
demand. They are
cross-functionally excellent people who can tie several silos of
business development expertise together, create
synergies, design winning
business model and a
balanced business system and then
lead people who will put their plans into action...
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Enterprise Strategy
Successful companies are those
that focus their efforts strategically.
Strategy should be a stretch exercise, not a fit exercise.
To meet and exceed
customer satisfaction, your business team needs to follow an overall
organizational strategy. A successful strategy adds
value for the targeted customers over the long run by consistently
meeting their needs better than the competition does...
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Results-based Leadership
As a corporate leader, you should both
demonstrate
leadership attributes and deliver
balanced results to your customers, investors, employees, and
organization.
Results-based leadership has relentless emphasis on results. By helping
leaders at all levels get results, results-based leadership frees
productivity from constraints of hierarchy and the limitations of position.
Results-based leadership
energizes employees, inspires
trust, and makes
performance measurement
easier...
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Leading Organizational Change
The amount of
change in organizations has grown tremendously over the past three
decades, and the rate of change will only accelerate in the next few
decades. No wonder change, and
leadership through change, are foremost concerns of CEO’s today.
6Ws of Corporate Growth
To achieve
sustainable corporate growth, you and your people should live the
principles of
6Ws of corporate corporate
growth.
The "Six Ws" – what, why, who, when, where and how – are very powerful
words. Use them constantly to seek, either from yourself or from others, the
answers needed to manage effectively...
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The Power of Passion
When corporate leaders engage only on an
intellectual level the corporate
vision and
strategy, it is virtually impossible to maintain energy and commitment,
and
energize others. As a corporate leader, you must find a way to get
executives
emotionally engaged with each other and with the strategy. People change
when they are emotionally engaged.
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