Are You an Operations-Driven or Market-Driven Leader?

Are You an Operations-Driven or Market-Driven Leader? The highly competitive and changing marketplace demands a new kind of workplace culture where leaders and employees alike embrace the six characteristics mentioned in the article, Create Your Corporate Values by Design, Not by Accident. If you haven’t read it, I encourage you to do so – and while you’re at it - take the assessment at the end of the article that measures your organization’s proficiency level of each of the six characteristics. The article prompted several readers to ask about first steps and the requirements for leaders to transform corporate cultures to support emerging business needs dictated by a rapidly evolving marketplace. Upon reflection, this concern made me realize just how much underlying tension exists in today’s workplace; how much uncertainty people have about their organizations’ futures (let alone their own job security); and how much leaders must change their mindset if their organizations are going to reinvent themselves and get back on track.