Category: LeaderShip

If someone asked you to prepare an action plan for yourself, on how to be a better leader, how would it look like? To develop your own leadership identity, you have to act first, and reflect later. The action plan should include 3 areas: your daily job, your network, and a flexible self-image.

What is your relationship with power in the professional context? For any CEO or a senior leader, power is the key to getting things done not only when building cars, but in any business and organisation. Most of projects and processes are highly interdependent, and you need to work through others to succeed.

If you feel like you’re not exactly where you want to be in your career, evaluate your strengths and choose one where you can stand out; build behaviours to support that strength and three more focus points to consider.

How do you usually respond when faced with a sensitive question? Numerous interviews with highly successful people (3 in the Article) show that most professional approach is to pause and answer within the context.

AI and the complexities of the environment require a new approach to leadership. More than ever leaders need employees who can think for themselves and employees need leaders who inspire them and give them the freedom to be individuals.

What happens if you just keep focusing on your expertise? Doing more of what you already do well yields only incremental improvement. Chances are that instead of getting ahead, you’ll just get stuck. Develop your interpersonal skills instead.

The business world needs more logical as well as human-centric leaders because the circumstances demand it – digital transformation, cybersecurity, AI/genAI…and their employees. The best leaders learn to be more self-aware and self-reflective so they can lead from the inside-out.

How do you deal with professional setbacks? Even the smartest and the hardest working executives will face failures at some point in their careers. The latest research on leadership points to the power of self-reflection and awareness to build confidence and balance humility.

Are you a skilled executive who struggles to translate his vision for success in actual performance? Perhaps you aren’t training the right skills. The practice of some of the world’s best leaders reveals, that you need to get to know yourself first before you can lead others. Here’s why.

What does it take to lead over 200.000 employees world-wide and create billions in revenue? The example of Ana Botín and others. And no, taking care of yourself isn’t boring.