The New Thought Leader- It is time to facilitate not dictate

When I started my corporate career fresh out of college, leadership was about command and control.  Many times it was an environment which was led out of fear. It was about controlling all aspect of processes and people.  Many of the leaders who were able to generate the greatest amount of fear among the rank and file were promoted up the ladder on a fast track.  We saw the ability to generate fear as a favorable core competency of leadership! As we have transitioned from an autocratic to a thought worker environment, we have discovered that fear in a professional setting is to creative thought and innovation like cancer is to good health.  We need to realize our roles as leaders have shifted from one of dictating and measuring to one of facilitating and monitoring the energy of the team.  Your primary role today as a leader is to be the Keeper of The Organizational Energy.  Yes,  I did say Organizational Energy and if that is a little to new age for you, get use to it.   You will be hearing it more often.   It is a sacred role, The Keeper of the Energy (kind of roles of your tongue doesn’t it).  It is vital to short and long term success.  Your ability to sustain the oscillation of your professional environment between high and low positive and to limit the amount and duration of dips into the negative high and low energy will have a direct correlation to the fiscal success of your company!

Juan-Manuel Sanchez