Matthew Paese, author of Leaders Ready Now: Accelerating Growth in a Faster World, talks about how leadership isn’t a specific set of skills that can be found in one place. Leadership is about individuals who fit with your culture and supply the organization with what it needs, not about who is the loudest or has more pizzazz. Paese encourages c-suite leaders to look for leaders in non-traditional places, adding that finding the right people requires objectivity and settling on a definition on what “potential” means – as he considers it an “amorphous concept worldwide.” Since everyone has a different definition, organizations need to sort out the most critical qualities to look for early on in someone’s career, but cautions against focusing on just performance. He says, “Good performance won’t predict good, future leadership.”
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