Recently a dramatic shift with a significant increase in business
world
what
might be called “global competitive intensity”. This new competitive
intensity
has destabilized companies and even whole industries.
It is pushing more organizations to pay better attention to changing
consumer
preferences and new technological development, and then to
adapt,
innovate to the new and more efficient
product process of
manufacturing operations.
More and more, the need for leadership does not stop at the
executive
level either.
The Telecom Corporation comes across that even lower
level
managerial, professional, and technical employees sometimes need to
play a
leadership role in their arena.
Dealing with the typical leadership challenges created by
competitive
intensity,
getting costs down, increasing productivity, improving customer
service,
keeping quality high, getting new products developed faster, is
rarely
easy.
The leadership challenge at the top of complex organizations appears
sometimes
to be almost overwhelming. But in many situations today, the
technological, competitive, market, economic, and political uncertainties
make
strategic decision making more complicated.
In general, it will be a world in which the leadership factor in
management will become increasingly important for companies
prosperity and even survival.
Cross Cultural Leadership
The main expression of turbulent of the emerging global civilization
is the
constant
restructuring of business sectors. The global up and down in all
industries , manufacturing and service is strong influence by emerging
markets
that are engaged in selective global expansion.
To deal with this condition some companies set up alliance through
mergers
and acquisition to reach the scale considered necessary to
compete
in the global arena.
The global alliances and market means several countries and many
different
cultures to consider. And a kind of successful cross
cultural
superleadership should be build under the awareness of different values
in
different countries and regions.
The appreciation of different values will bring about the successful
adaptation in the period of adjustment and long life production process.
Is SuperLeadership the most ideal
solution?
Superleadership also needs to operate in the many new extended network
and
alliance structures. These have emerged in order to adopt new
competitive approaches and because the technology requirements of
many
products and services exceed the competencies of any
organization.
The leadership challenge here is to find a common purpose, to derive
common
strategies and to engage in common action. This often means
recognizing segments of customer opportunity and mobilizing the
different
players in a loose network of organizational alliances to seize
that
opportunity.
Technology’s impact used to be limited mainly to product improvement
and
manufacturing process improvement. It was concentrated in the high
technology sectors of the economy. While even superleaders could not
ignore
technology, it seemed possible to them to manage it through others
with more
technical competence.
Today, these leadership career paths are in question. Technology is
providing
new ways to integrate supply, manufacturing and distribution,
and is
producing large gains in customer value at much lower cost.
Nowadays technology’s role is not limited to high technology, it is
becoming
a decisive factor many others sector such as distribution,
services
even public administration and government.
In all this field, the leadership or the superleadership
challenge to build
and use
technology effectively and responsibly.
Leaders therefore need to have a much firmer grasp of technology and
a
greater
ability to manage it than in the past.
Because leaders today need ‘two sides coin’ strategy, they have to
run
their
business as efficiently as possible, yet at the same time they have to
change
it.
They need to have a much firmer grasp on technology, which is
providing
new ways
to integrate supply, manufacturing, distribution and e- com.
which is
redrawing the boundaries between historically separate
industries.
In implementing SuperLeadership, we have
to take into account the main
forces
are affecting the process of leadership like the development of
newer,
flatter matrix forms of organization, the growing number of
alliances
and informal networks and people’s changing expectations and
values.
Recently, leadership has become more focussed on customer
satisfaction
and the
empowering bottom line, but the pressure is increasingly to create
more
meaningful employment and to confront broader social and societal
issues,
such as the environment, and quality of life.
In the modern business world intensive competition, everywhere and
every day
managers confront shattering and accelerating change, change
paced by
constant innovations in computer and telecommunications
technologies.
To survive and become superlative in today’s economic environment
there
is an
urgent imperative beyond competitive, the wisdom and open
mindedness to build superleadership as the source of
excellence business
advantage.
This is the key of for tomorrow’s winners which is targeting
prominent
areas of management including responsiveness, innovation,
empowering staff, information technology and SuperLeadership:
beyond
the myth
of heroic leadership.