The fact that the business leader of today is being pulled and stretched like never before is not a new thing, this has been running directly in tandem with the lives that we are all living, I know my life has got quicker and increasingly full of economic, social and personal pressures in the last 5 years (which may well have something to do with reaching 40 years young).
What hurts the most then is a business that had the ‘hearts and minds’ of it’s people and then started to throw it away.
Are you a leader? Or just doing leadership? This rears its head a great deal, a senior executives awareness around this area really helps to define the individual in terms of whether they are really a Manager or a Leader.
Senior managers need to be able to ‘hear the grass grow’ in the primary market place of all leaders, their own back yard, the internal market.
Generation X was about rebellion and getting what was rightfully yours, Generation Y’s are a far more subtle group, not neccessarirly by design, but more by the fact they really just won’t play the same game, as a young lady I was coaching recently said, “to be honest guy if they don’t do the right thing then I’m not going to waste my life fighting the good fight, I’ll vote with my feet”.