BSP 059: Leaders Ready Now by Matthew Paese

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,
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