Global Leadership and Open Leadership

I joke that: “I’m a recovering Accountant, the first step is admitting you have a problem”.

I say that as I chose to train to become a Chartered Accountant as a foundation for my future career, not to become an accountant. Having said all that, I am hugely grateful for that learning and to be a member of ICAS, now in my thirtieth year of membership. ICAS (Instituted of Chartered Accountants in Scotland) has always and continues to show leadership in such core areas as Ethics, Standards, Fairness and more. Their motto is “Quaere verum”, or “seek the truth”, a powerful purpose that guides them well.

Today as I write this post, in the daily ICAS news recap email an article from their Australian outpost on a theme called Global Leadership.

Am SO energised to find such wonderful thinking on that idea so today will simoply share the post and link to some of my own thoughts on #OpenLeadership.

I state my views on #OpenLeadership clearly in the first paragraph of my homepage:

Command-and-control leadership is losing its grip. A new way of thinking is emerging: leadership that embraces change as constant, encourages individual thought, relies on intuition more than data, fluidity more than hierarchy, trust more than fear, and the common good more than profit.