Soarent Vision

Extract from thinkBIG Magazine article written by George Lee Sye

Did you read the March 2010, Australian Financial Review’s Boss Magazine which focused on REINVENTING LEADERSHIP? The magazine published an amazing article which was an excerpt of the speech Don Argus delivered at a Leadership Victoria dinner in December 2009. His key comments around leadership are relevant to the shifts that we see happening today in business.

Here’s something that might absolutely astound you … it has been predicted that there will be a leadership shortage in the very near future. A study by Egon Zehnder International predicts a 36 percent shortfall in the number of managers ready for leadership roles by 2015.

Cost cutting is a genuine strategy for making the numbers in a company, there’s no doubts about that. But so many companies destroy themselves in the long run by focusing entirely on costs, and never recognising the real problem that exists within the organisation.

Effective leaders today must have flexibility in the way they think, flexibility in their paradigm or the framework through which they view the world in different contexts.

Albert Einstein, Milton Erickson, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung were way before their time. They paved a way for us to explore this intriguing topic. They knew something that few realised at the time – most of what happens in our life is driven by our UNCONSCIOUS MINDS.

I guess all of you have been closely watching and feeling your way through the economic situation as 2010 unfolds. There is no doubt in my mind that the ripple effects of the events of 2009 will test our abilities to succeed in business today and maintain the quality of life we expect to have. [...]