Ronnie Nurss

I spent some time today in the periodic room in college, and found out that they offer the Harvard Business Review for students to read, with some issues dating back to 2000. I grabbed an issue with emphasis on Leadership. I then read the article “Where Will We Find Tomorrow’s Leader?”, an interview with Linda A. Hill. Linda Hill, a professor at Harvard Business School, argues that tomorrow’s leaders are going to be more collaborative and open to sharing power with employees. I remember reading specifically about a belief of “Employee first, customer second”. Mentor and allow employees to cultivate their skills and face challenges with freedom and risk, to allow them offer the best service to the customer.

The biggest thing I got from the article was a quote that Nelson Mandela is famous for on leadership:

What I got from the article was that tomorrow’s great leaders must be able to bring the best out of their employees, mentor and allow them the freedom to take on projects with the risk of failing. Leaders must be able to collaborate with everyone, and allow employees to lead the way, while he simply orchestrates from behind.

Wednesday, 12. March 2008 at 2:30 pm posted under Entrepreneurship, Lifestyle. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can also Leave A Response or Trackback from your own site. Thanks for reading.