Leadership Profile
Martha Leticia Silva Flores
Abstract
It is clear that the world we live in today changes at a fast pace that surpasses theories within the subject of leadership as it was studied several years ago. Drawing on recent sources, I found some examples of how the whole concept is perceived in an innovative way.
Roselinde Torres, who dedicated more than 25 years to look for answers to the question: What makes a person a great leader? in a TED presentation held in San Francisco on November 2013, found unexpected answers after research of more than 4.000 companies on the subject. She came to conclusions, that I would summarize as follows. First of all, a leader is not someone who reacts to situations, instead, he/she molds and gives shape to reality in order to obtain the expected result. This aspect has a lot to do with the ability of a person to get out of the box, to walk away from preconceived ideas, traditional ways of doing things and solving problems, and create a different future, leaving aside judgements of people who are not used to different ways of thinking. For that, this leader is a person who also is able to develop relationships with people completely differently that will help him/her to ask themselves different kinds of questions and find different responses to these problems.
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