Over the last few weeks we have seen an amazing increase in the way Connected Leadership is going global.
ConnectedLeadership, my first book, was published in December 2015. The concept of Connected Leadership
is central to much of the work Cirrus does with our clients, and over the past
two years companies around the world have adopted Connected Leadership as their
core framework for leadership identity and development, from the Americas to
Asia. Now three pieces of news take Connected Leadership to a different
level of global relevance.
Firstly, I
have had a chapter on Connected Leadership in Asia published in the prestigious Palgrave Handbook ofLeadership in Transforming Asia, edited by Nuttawuth Muenjohn and Adela
McMurray, both professors at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s
School of Management. I wrote it with Cirrus colleagues Barry Freeman and
Alison Tickner, based on my original research into Connected Leadership and additional
research into leadership practices across key markets in Asia.
Secondly, Connected Leadership is being translated into Chinese, to enable it to be distributed more widely in the Chinese market. And thirdly, I have just heard that it is also going to be translated into Arabic, taking the Connected Leadership message to a vast new territory.
These
developments give me great confidence that the new leadership approach
suggested by Connected Leadership can travel globally, and that the need for
more agile and customer driven ways of working are relevant across so many
varied cultures around the world. People are becoming connected more and more
through social media and technology. This trend is only going to accelerate
with the changes we are beginning to see with artificial intelligence,
ubiquitous connectivity through the internet, and mixed reality. Connected
Leadership is a framework to help leaders engage their people, create more
agile ways of working, and drive innovation across the enterprise. It is
relevant and it is easy to use. I am excited about its future.