Leader and executives: the manager's success

Globalization and information technologies determine the new competitive environment in which businesses operate. Today, they face an increasing complexity in all areas at once to be undertaken, and even anticipate, constant change. Graphically, we sailed on whitewater rivers.

Effective leadership brings order and coherence to this complexity: set goals and reach phases, finds and allocates resources to implement them and ensure the implementation of the monitoring plan and problem solving.

But to accept, provide or cause changes to the skills necessary to perform the above functions, the directors themselves-executive, should be added today the manager-leader. In short, leadership brings to the added value needed direction for success.

Leading an organization begins the task of developing a vision for the future. This is not a statement of wishes or ideals, but that means instilling a purpose, to create projections and long-term strategies accurately, considering "where we want to." Do you invent the future is not the best way to predict it?.

But the vision must be shared. A leader speaks and listens to his colleagues, takes into account their contributions, empowers them to make decisions, and encourages team spirit and sharing of information, knowledge, points of view. His goal: that all understand and share the approach pursued and commit to their achievement.

Leadership is also to facilitate and support the development of employees, know them and enhance their value, encouraging them to innovate and learn. The supervisor is no longer leader to be a trainer and consultant.

The results are the fruit of common goals, motivation and encouragement, confidence and a systematic process of continuous improvement. Effective management and leadership get that team members give their best of themselves, are used to the limit, be satisfied with what they are doing (do things because they want them). Satisfaction and performance is inseparably linked. Under these conditions people feel responsible, committed, are enthusiastic about the project, are continuously learning.

In short, leadership and action are two forms of different and complementary. Both are necessary for success in a business environment increasingly complex and changing. And both axes must be developed by people who want to "govern" the organizations and participate in a decisive and active role in their future.