Wow! A growing number of you are sharing some very interesting and insightful perspectives with your comments to several of our recent posts. This is fantastic; as one of our hopes was that we can all continue to learn from each other.
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Our perspective today involves the management training aspect of leadership and selflessness. We were working earlier today with a group of leaders going through a merger. One of them raised the concern of whether or not they would still have a job after the merger was complete. A very human question. However, leadership calls us to a higher level of thinking.
As a leader we are called to think beyond ourselves, beyond our departments, beyond the people that we lead. We must always think and act on what is best for the success of the entire enterprise we are a part of.
The worst leaders fight for their personal gain. The more evolved leader fights for their people or department. More evolved yet again the leader fights for the success of the enterprise.
But, there is an even more enlightened level of leadership that only the very best reach. These leaders are so selfless that they do not first think of the success of their enterprise. Instead, they are always thinking about what is best for their customers.
In all of your management training to develop excellent team leadership keep your customer at the forefront of your mind. They will always lead you in the right direction.
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The highest form of enlightenment is to dedicate oneself to what is the best for the customers, the
society and the environment. And many companies the world over are trying to reorient themselves to providing real benefit to their customers rather than keeping them hooked to sugared, coloured water or to cigarettes.
I find the concern of someone likely to lose their jobs as a consequence of a merger very real and legitimate. With the stock market taking the fizz out of the Plan 401 and its like, what has a demobilised middle-aged executive to fall back on? Particularly, when in this age of youth worship and shrinking job opportunities, if you are jobless and on the wrong side of forty five you are likely to remain jobless, perhaps for ever.
I am not against mergers per se if they really promote better synergy and lower costs to the customers but the interests of the employees of either company losing jobs must be safeguarded. Over the next few years, let them at least share, along with the other stakeholders, the monetary rewards of the merger.
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