My guest today is the brilliant, sharp-witted, and funny Gary Hamel! He’s a professor at the London School of Business, best-selling author, and one of the world’s top business thinkers. Gary is a repeat guest on the show and today we’re doing something that I’ve never done before, and that is focus on current leadership and business news, something that many listeners have asked me to do.
Too often, we get tunnel vision as we focus solely on our career path and what’s in front of us.
How and why is leadership changing and what does it take to be a successful leader?
We talk a lot about the future of work, but what does it actually mean?
This week my guest is Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice at London Business School and bestselling author of The New Long Life.
Over the past few months I’ve been working with Pega (paid client) who recently put out The Future of Work Report which is based on a survey of over 3,000 senior managers and frontline IT staff. The findings were quite interesting.
The future of work is full of opportunities. But people won’t be able to take advantage of those opportunities if they don’t take risks.
It’s a philosophy Shellye Archambeau, former CEO of MetricStream, has followed her entire life. Shellye looked for opportunities early in life and took risks to get them. As an African American woman with an eye on not only working in but leading the tech industry, Shellye often had to chart her own course, but she grew by taking risks and creating success on her own terms.
A cup of coffee changed my life forever. Sounds crazy right?
It was 2016 and I had just graduated with honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a dual B.A. in business management economics and psychology.
I was VERY excited to join the corporate world.
My plan was simple. Get a good job, work hard, go back to school to get my MBA, and then climb the corporate ladder to be an executive at a company like Coca-Cola or IBM.
Simple right? Nothing went according to plan.
When Shawn Riegsecker founded Centro in 2001, his goal was to create a digital media service for ad agencies.
He couldn’t have imagined how big it would become. Centro has appeared on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, The Inc. 500, and lists of best places to work for multiple years in a row. Shawn was also named the 2019 CEO of the Year by Illinois Technology Association.
These are the six trends 140 CEOs identify that will play a major role in shaping future leaders over the next decade and beyond. It’s true that we are seeing these in action today but over the next ten years, they will be front and center.