From taxi rides, hotel stays, car driving, to communicating and paying, everything we knew as normal has changed beyond recognition.
To lead effectively in today’s brave new world, you have to question EVERYTHING.
For the first time in human history, knowledge is free and almost every boundary to communication has been lifted. This open source world has permanently altered the business landscape. And you can count on the fact that the pace of change will only accelerate. Yet . . . companies of all shapes and sizes still rely on management tools and practices that were, at best, mildly effective in their heyday.
In the recently released book, ‘Open Source Leadership’, Rajeev Peshawaria reveals the vision, insight, and practices he has used to help some of today’s largest and most influential organisations meet the open source world head on. It all starts with asking the right questions:
• What’s the most effective leadership style in a world of 24/7 connectivity?
• How has the very concept of leadership changed in the open source era?
• How do you inspire and reward performance in the “gig economy”?
• How do you measure engagement and effectively address the gaps?
• How can you lead innovation - quickly and continuously?
Peshawaria reveals the answers to these questions - and they will surprise you. Based on his company’s groundbreaking research spanning 28 countries, he concludes that traditional industrial age thinking needs a massive upgrade to successfully navigating the brave new world of business.
The way in which people work, interact, and transact has drastically changed, but we're still following the same dated leadership model from the industrial age - an unrecognisable time when knowledge was scarce, talent seemingly limited and privacy still possible.
We now live and work in an age where everyone and everything is connected, ordinary people are highly empowered, and leaders stand completely exposed. In this era, the way to lead is with an open-source leadership style, argues Rajeev Peshawaria. The book is based on original research with contrarian findings. At a time when democratic and all-inclusive leadership is all the rage.
"In order to create an environment in which the next generations can thrive, we need to take today's challenges head-on. We need to recognise that current thinking around leadership will not be adequate to do so, and redefine leadership away from follower-ship," Peshawaria explains. Great leadership has nothing to do with shallow external symbols of personality and charisma. Instead it has everything to do with character, which is deep and internal.
Good leaders and bad leaders come in all personality types. There is not an ideal personality profile in determining leadership potential.
The leader in you is born when two things happen to you simultaneously. First, you feel deeply about the inadequacies of current reality, and second, you decide to do something about it. Both must occur together for leadership to surface.
Whether we like it or not, the open source era is upon us. Rather than trying to resist the trends shaping society, we need to accept the new reality and ask ourselves what we need to change about ourselves and our business or organisation to compete at our full potential.
Reference: Rajeev Peshawaria: Open Source Leadership: Reinventing Management When There’s No More Business as Usual
