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Leadership Development S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-S To Prepare for the Future

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By Linda Fisher Thornton

In a recent post, I acknowledged that “leaders face information overload, globalization and increasing complexity. And they hold the key to your organization’s future. Make it a priority to help them be ready.”

How can we prepare leaders to succeed in a socially and globally connected world? What are the strategies that will help them handle a wide variety of unpredictable situations while making ethical choices?

Three Questions – Are Our Leaders Ready For The Future?

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By Linda Fisher Thornton

Our future success is in the hands of our leaders. They will be the ones to notice and remove roadblocks, mentor employees and foresee future opportunities. They will be the ones to tackle the seemingly unsolvable problems of the future. Are they ready?

12 Trends Shaping the (Responsible, Human) Future of Learning

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By Linda Fisher Thornton

Much of our success in a rapidly changing world will come from our ability to learn our way through difficult situations that have no clear solutions. Since we can’t use a scripted response for unexpected situations, we need to help people learn how to handle complexity and information overload and still make ethical choices.

This graphic pulls together 12 important trends in learning that will be important to our success in the future. I believe that the transition from a focus on content to a focus on learner success in the real world is already underway. It transcends settings, being equally important in classrooms and corporate training rooms.

Imagining The Future Of Leadership

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  By Linda Fisher Thornton Learning At 2,400 Tweets Per Hour I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to co-host the live #LeadWithGiants Tweetchat with @DanVForbes on January 19, 2015. The topic was “The Future of Leadership,” and the live chat trended…

Prepare Now For The Future of Leadership

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By Linda Fisher Thornton

Leading with positive values and demonstrating care are becoming expected ways of doing business. Leading now is not as much about leaders as it is about bringing out the best in those they lead and serve.

Want To Thrive in Leadership Future? Tether Yourself To Values

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By Linda Fisher Thornton

It would be “easy […] for organizations and leaders to become frozen by the magnitude of the changes under way” (McKinsey & Co., Management Intuition For the Next 50 Years). Success in future leadership requires being nimble and adaptive, flexing with constant change, and being ready for anything.

How should we stay grounded as we avoid crises and manage our way through a maze of increasing expectations?

Leading For Ethics Future? (Or Ethics Past?)

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By Linda Fisher Thornton

We are expected to make ethical decisions in a rapidly changing global society, where there is increasing awareness of what “ethical” means. The question of where ethics is headed has been the focus of my research over the last four years.

I have learned that to be considered ethical, we must consider more constituents, honor more dimensions of ethics, and lead ethically through higher levels of complexity. How do we prepare for that? We reach higher and think longer-term.

16 Trends Shaping the Future of Ethical Leadership

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By Linda Fisher Thornton

Today, I want to share with you the picture of the future that I see, based on a powerful movement toward positive, proactive ethical leadership. As a global community, we are increasingly aware of the impact of our choices on others. We are more aware of our human connection and our responsibilities to one another. There is a trend toward considering our responsibilities broadly, beyond making profits to also making a difference.

As we head into the New Year, let’s help our leaders be ready for this positive, proactive “ethical leadership future.”

Developing the Ethical Leader of the Future

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by Linda Fisher Thornton

On Thursday, I spoke about The Future of Ethics and Business Leadership at the Richmond SHRM Strategic Leadership Conference. My lens was leadership development – how to help leaders be ready to lead ethically in a highly complex, connected future.

Here are some success principles for developing “Ethical Leader Future:”

Becoming “Business Leader Future”

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“Business Leader Future” Post Struck a Chord With Readers

The response to the February 1, 2012 post “Business Leader Future: A Sketch” has been overwhelming. Thanks so much to all of you who retweeted, commented on and shared it on your favorite social media channels.

At the end of this post is a visual story, via Storify, of selected reader comments.

Business Leader Future : A Sketch

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Leading in a Complex Global Context

I did some research about global trends and challenges and how they will change the way we lead in the future. The answers I found explain why we sometimes feel that we’re in a perpetual state of disequilibrium.

100 Communication Future Articles

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“Communication Future”

Our understanding of communication is changing rapidly and these articles preview what the future of communication may look like (and a history of where it’s been).

What Do We Need to Know?

Successful communication requires new approaches in a connected global society.

Some of the trends and changes featured in these articles include:

Future of Learning 2011

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Learning and Motivation

We now understand so much more about how people learn and what motivates them than we did as recently as ten years ago.

People prefer to learn in their own ways, at their own pace, using the resources they choose. They enjoy following their curiosity and creating their own meaning.

de Klerk’s Powerful Message: Conquering Fear in The Quest for a Shared Future

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I was honored to have the opportunity to hear F. W. de Klerk speak in person last week when he visited the University of Richmond and spoke at the Jepson Leadership Forum about his role in ending apartheid in South Africa. In his remarks he said many powerful things about leadership in a global society. The one that struck a chord with me most was about “radical change.”

10 Things Ethical Leaders Believe (Part 6)

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By Linda Fisher Thornton

We will build a better world. When we think of the term “stakeholder” in its broadest interpretation, and lead with care, our proactive ethical leadership generates ripples of trust. We make a difference. When we seek a simultaneous win for many stakeholders, we: Create a better future for the organization, it’s customers and employees. Support healthy communities. Make a difference in the world.