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What are you fed by?
This episode is the fifth in a series of conversations that I'm having in partnership with the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity. For the weeks leading up to Cannes, we're focusing our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries.
Are we moving fast enough? Are we going far enough? Is this an opportunity to fundamentally redesign the creative industries, or should we adjust and iterate, slowly and carefully? Do we follow the puck, or skate to where it's going? There are opportunities, and risks, around every corner.
Nils Leonard is the Co-founder of Uncommon, a global creative studio based in New York, London, and Stockholm. I invited Nils into the series because I suspected he would have a strong point of view about what AI is, and isn't, when it comes to creativity.
Nils has strong beliefs about many things, which is why I ask him back on the show regularly. One of those is the emotional leap of faith that every creative act demands. It's a deeply and uniquely human investment.
At the end of the series, I'll offer some thoughts on what we've heard and learned, and where we might go from here. In the meantime, thanks for joining us.
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation.
What are you fed by?
This episode is the fifth in a series of conversations that I'm having in partnership with the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity. For the weeks leading up to Cannes, we're focusing our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries.
Are we moving fast enough? Are we going far enough? Is this an opportunity to fundamentally redesign the creative industries, or should we adjust and iterate, slowly and carefully? Do we follow the puck, or skate to where it's going? There are opportunities, and risks, around every corner.
Nils Leonard is the Co-founder of Uncommon, a global creative studio based in New York, London, and Stockholm. I invited Nils into the series because I suspected he would have a strong point of view about what AI is, and isn't, when it comes to creativity.
Nils has strong beliefs about many things, which is why I ask him back on the show regularly. One of those is the emotional leap of faith that every creative act demands. It's a deeply and uniquely human investment.
At the end of the series, I'll offer some thoughts on what we've heard and learned, and where we might go from here. In the meantime, thanks for joining us.
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Puuttuva jakso?
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation.
What are you fed by?
This episode is the fifth in a series of conversations that I'm having in partnership with the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity. For the weeks leading up to Cannes, we're focusing our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries.
Are we moving fast enough? Are we going far enough? Is this an opportunity to fundamentally redesign the creative industries, or should we adjust and iterate, slowly and carefully? Do we follow the puck, or skate to where it's going? There are opportunities, and risks, around every corner.
Nils Leonard is the Co-founder of Uncommon, a global creative studio based in New York, London, and Stockholm. I invited Nils into the series because I suspected he would have a strong point of view about what AI is, and isn't, when it comes to creativity.
Nils has strong beliefs about many things, which is why I ask him back on the show regularly. One of those is the emotional leap of faith that every creative act demands. It's a deeply and uniquely human investment.
At the end of the series, I'll offer some thoughts on what we've heard and learned, and where we might go from here. In the meantime, thanks for joining us.
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Are you aiming high enough?
This episode is the fourth in a series of conversations that I'm having in partnership with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. For the weeks leading up to Cannes, we're focusing on a study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries.
Are we moving fast enough? Are we going far enough? Is this an opportunity to fundamentally redesign the creative industries? Or should we adjust and iterate slowly and carefully? Do we follow the puck or skate to where it's going? There are opportunities and risks around every corner.
Yasu Sasaki is the Global Chief Creative Officer of Dentsu. His company has a presence in over 145 countries and regions, and they've been working with artificial intelligence, in one form or another, since 2011.
One of the main questions facing the creative industries is which companies will see AI as an opportunity to stretch the boundaries of human creativity. To recognize that the limitations in our creativity are no longer practical, financial, or time-based, but are, in fact, our own confidence in our capacity to think originally.
We can also use this opportunity to create greater efficiency, a worthy ambition in a world in which resources are scarce and a life in which the time available to us is finite.
In theory and in practice, we can both raise the bar and lower cost.
But we must be careful how we do it.
At the end of the series, I'll offer some thoughts on what we've heard and learned and where we might go from here.
In the meantime, thanks for joining us.
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation.
Are you aiming high enough?
This episode is the fourth in a series of conversations that I'm having in partnership with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. For the weeks leading up to Cannes, we're focusing on a study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries.
Are we moving fast enough? Are we going far enough? Is this an opportunity to fundamentally redesign the creative industries? Or should we adjust and iterate slowly and carefully? Do we follow the puck or skate to where it's going? There are opportunities and risks around every corner.
Yasu Sasaki is the Global Chief Creative Officer of Dentsu. His company has a presence in over 145 countries and regions, and they've been working with artificial intelligence, in one form or another, since 2011.
One of the main questions facing the creative industries is which companies will see AI as an opportunity to stretch the boundaries of human creativity. To recognize that the limitations in our creativity are no longer practical, financial, or time-based, but are, in fact, our own confidence in our capacity to think originally.
We can also use this opportunity to create greater efficiency, a worthy ambition in a world in which resources are scarce and a life in which the time available to us is finite.
In theory and in practice, we can both raise the bar and lower cost.
But we must be careful how we do it.
At the end of the series, I'll offer some thoughts on what we've heard and learned and where we might go from here.
In the meantime, thanks for joining us.
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation.
Are you aiming high enough?
This episode is the fourth in a series of conversations that I'm having in partnership with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. For the weeks leading up to Cannes, we're focusing on a study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries.
Are we moving fast enough? Are we going far enough? Is this an opportunity to fundamentally redesign the creative industries? Or should we adjust and iterate slowly and carefully? Do we follow the puck or skate to where it's going? There are opportunities and risks around every corner.
Yasu Sasaki is the Global Chief Creative Officer of Dentsu. His company has a presence in over 145 countries and regions, and they've been working with artificial intelligence, in one form or another, since 2011.
One of the main questions facing the creative industries is which companies will see AI as an opportunity to stretch the boundaries of human creativity. To recognize that the limitations in our creativity are no longer practical, financial, or time-based, but are, in fact, our own confidence in our capacity to think originally.
We can also use this opportunity to create greater efficiency, a worthy ambition in a world in which resources are scarce and a life in which the time available to us is finite.
In theory and in practice, we can both raise the bar and lower cost.
But we must be careful how we do it.
At the end of the series, I'll offer some thoughts on what we've heard and learned and where we might go from here.
In the meantime, thanks for joining us.
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Are you seizing what is starting?
This episode is the third in a series of conversations Iām having in partnership with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.
For the weeks leading up to Cannes, weāre focusing our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries.
Are we moving fast enough? Are we going far enough? Is this an opportunity to fundamentally redesign the creative industries, or should we adjust and iterate, slowly and carefully? Do we follow the puck or skate to where itās going? There are opportunities and risks around every corner.
Asmita Dubey is the Chief Digital and Marketing Officer of LāOrĆ©al.
Her company is the fourth largest advertiser in the world. They are a 115-year old business that owns 37 brands.
Itās easy to see the world presumptively. To presume that big companies always move more cautiously, that they are slower to see, to adopt, and to adapt to disruptions in the eco system around them.
But if your company believes, as Asmita frames it, in seizing what is starting, if you operate from a foot forward perspective, if you are relentlessly curious and consistently committed to the belief that creativity and innovation are all that separates you from your competitors, then the size of your company does not matter.
Big or small. Old or new. You can seize what is starting, and define the future on your terms.
At the end of the series, Iāll offer some thoughts on what weāve heard and learned, and where we might go from here.
In the meantime, thanks for joining us.
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation.
Are you seizing what is starting?
This episode is the third in a series of conversations Iām having in partnership with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.
For the weeks leading up to Cannes, weāre focusing our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries.
Are we moving fast enough? Are we going far enough? Is this an opportunity to fundamentally redesign the creative industries, or should we adjust and iterate, slowly and carefully? Do we follow the puck or skate to where itās going? There are opportunities and risks around every corner.
Asmita Dubey is the Chief Digital and Marketing Officer of LāOrĆ©al.
Her company is the fourth largest advertiser in the world. They are a 115-year old business that owns 37 brands.
Itās easy to see the world presumptively. To presume that big companies always move more cautiously, that they are slower to see, to adopt, and to adapt to disruptions in the eco system around them.
But if your company believes, as Asmita frames it, in seizing what is starting, if you operate from a foot forward perspective, if you are relentlessly curious and consistently committed to the belief that creativity and innovation are all that separates you from your competitors, then the size of your company does not matter.
Big or small. Old or new. You can seize what is starting, and define the future on your terms.
At the end of the series, Iāll offer some thoughts on what weāve heard and learned, and where we might go from here.
In the meantime, thanks for joining us.
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation.
Are you seizing what is starting?
This episode is the third in a series of conversations Iām having in partnership with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.
For the weeks leading up to Cannes, weāre focusing our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries.
Are we moving fast enough? Are we going far enough? Is this an opportunity to fundamentally redesign the creative industries, or should we adjust and iterate, slowly and carefully? Do we follow the puck or skate to where itās going? There are opportunities and risks around every corner.
Asmita Dubey is the Chief Digital and Marketing Officer of LāOrĆ©al.
Her company is the fourth largest advertiser in the world. They are a 115-year old business that owns 37 brands.
Itās easy to see the world presumptively. To presume that big companies always move more cautiously, that they are slower to see, to adopt, and to adapt to disruptions in the eco system around them.
But if your company believes, as Asmita frames it, in seizing what is starting, if you operate from a foot forward perspective, if you are relentlessly curious and consistently committed to the belief that creativity and innovation are all that separates you from your competitors, then the size of your company does not matter.
Big or small. Old or new. You can seize what is starting, and define the future on your terms.
At the end of the series, Iāll offer some thoughts on what weāve heard and learned, and where we might go from here.
In the meantime, thanks for joining us.
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Can you imagine?
This episode is the second in a series of conversations Iām having in partnership with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.
For the weeks leading up to Cannes, weāre focusing our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries.
Are we moving fast enough? Are we going far enough? Is this an opportunity to fundamentally redesign the creative industries? Do we follow the puck or skate to where itās going? There are opportunities and risks around every corner.
PJ Pereira is the Founder and Creative Chairman at Pereira OāDell.
PJ is also a published author and an artist in his own right. We talk about a piece of animation that he recently created for his latest novel in which he used AI, and and weāve included a link in the show notes for this episode.
One of the themes thatās emerging from the conversations and background research Iāve been doing, is one of those realizations that is both surprising while striking me immediately as unquestionably true.
As a species, human beings are particularly bad at recognizing the speed, scale and impact of exponential growth.
Let me share an example I heard on a New York Times podcast recently, that uses cases of COVID to illustrate this.
If you start with a single case, and cases double every three days, then after 30 days, you have about a thousand cases. We can all wrap our heads around that.
But then go 30 days longer.
Now, you have a million. Wait another 30 days? Now, you have a billion.
AI is moving with the speed of a virus, and we are struggling to recognize the implications in ways that we can relate to.
We donāt have to go back too far to see how quickly our understanding of ānormalā can change.
On March 1st, 2020, society was operating pretty normally. Chris and I actually took a plane to Chicago on the 2nd, and we flew back to New York on the 5th.
Five days later, five days, that idea was unimaginable, and it remained that way for a year.
But speed of change is not the only measurement that we should be conscious of.
The enormity of the gap between the normal, as we understand it today, and what we will demand as normal tomorrow, is usually beyond our imagination to see or to predict or to project.
PJ brings those limitations of our imagination to life through a vivid and unforgettable example.
At the end of the series, Iāll offer some thoughts on what weāve heard and learned, and where we might go from here.
In the meantime, thanks for joining us.
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation.
Can you imagine?
This episode is the second in a series of conversations Iām having in partnership with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.
For the weeks leading up to Cannes, weāre focusing our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries.
Are we moving fast enough? Are we going far enough? Is this an opportunity to fundamentally redesign the creative industries? Do we follow the puck or skate to where itās going? There are opportunities and risks around every corner.
PJ Pereira is the Founder and Creative Chairman at Pereira OāDell.
PJ is also a published author and an artist in his own right. We talk about a piece of animation that he recently created for his latest novel in which he used AI, and and weāve included a link in the show notes for this episode.
One of the themes thatās emerging from the conversations and background research Iāve been doing, is one of those realizations that is both surprising while striking me immediately as unquestionably true.
As a species, human beings are particularly bad at recognizing the speed, scale and impact of exponential growth.
Let me share an example I heard on a New York Times podcast recently, that uses cases of COVID to illustrate this.
If you start with a single case, and cases double every three days, then after 30 days, you have about a thousand cases. We can all wrap our heads around that.
But then go 30 days longer.
Now, you have a million. Wait another 30 days? Now, you have a billion.
AI is moving with the speed of a virus, and we are struggling to recognize the implications in ways that we can relate to.
We donāt have to go back too far to see how quickly our understanding of ānormalā can change.
On March 1st, 2020, society was operating pretty normally. Chris and I actually took a plane to Chicago on the 2nd, and we flew back to New York on the 5th.
Five days later, five days, that idea was unimaginable, and it remained that way for a year.
But speed of change is not the only measurement that we should be conscious of.
The enormity of the gap between the normal, as we understand it today, and what we will demand as normal tomorrow, is usually beyond our imagination to see or to predict or to project.
PJ brings those limitations of our imagination to life through a vivid and unforgettable example.
At the end of the series, Iāll offer some thoughts on what weāve heard and learned, and where we might go from here.
In the meantime, thanks for joining us.
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation.
Can you imagine?
This episode is the second in a series of conversations Iām having in partnership with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.
For the weeks leading up to Cannes, weāre focusing our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries.
Are we moving fast enough? Are we going far enough? Is this an opportunity to fundamentally redesign the creative industries? Do we follow the puck or skate to where itās going? There are opportunities and risks around every corner.
PJ Pereira is the Founder and Creative Chairman at Pereira OāDell.
PJ is also a published author and an artist in his own right. We talk about a piece of animation that he recently created for his latest novel in which he used AI, and and weāve included a link in the show notes for this episode.
One of the themes thatās emerging from the conversations and background research Iāve been doing, is one of those realizations that is both surprising while striking me immediately as unquestionably true.
As a species, human beings are particularly bad at recognizing the speed, scale and impact of exponential growth.
Let me share an example I heard on a New York Times podcast recently, that uses cases of COVID to illustrate this.
If you start with a single case, and cases double every three days, then after 30 days, you have about a thousand cases. We can all wrap our heads around that.
But then go 30 days longer.
Now, you have a million. Wait another 30 days? Now, you have a billion.
AI is moving with the speed of a virus, and we are struggling to recognize the implications in ways that we can relate to.
We donāt have to go back too far to see how quickly our understanding of ānormalā can change.
On March 1st, 2020, society was operating pretty normally. Chris and I actually took a plane to Chicago on the 2nd, and we flew back to New York on the 5th.
Five days later, five days, that idea was unimaginable, and it remained that way for a year.
But speed of change is not the only measurement that we should be conscious of.
The enormity of the gap between the normal, as we understand it today, and what we will demand as normal tomorrow, is usually beyond our imagination to see or to predict or to project.
PJ brings those limitations of our imagination to life through a vivid and unforgettable example.
At the end of the series, Iāll offer some thoughts on what weāve heard and learned, and where we might go from here.
In the meantime, thanks for joining us.
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Are you leading, following or getting out of the way?
This episode is the first in a series of conversations that Iām having in partnership with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.
For the next five weeks leading up to Cannes, weāre going to focus our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries.
Are we moving fast enough? Are we going far enough? Is this an opportunity to fundamentally redesign the creative industries, or should we adjust and iterate, slowly and carefully? Do we follow the puck, or skate to where itās going? There are opportunities and risks around every corner.
We start with a conversation with Nick Law, who is Creative Chairperson at Accenture Song.
Nick has seen the creative industries from an array of extraordinary perspectives. He was Vice Chairman, Global Chief Creative Officer at R/GA, he served as Chief Creative Officer at Publicis Groupe, and was Vice President of Marcom Integration at Apple, where he co-led the global design and marketing group.
On his Cannes speaker profile, Nick says that he believes all technology needs creativity to make it human, and all creativity needs technology to make it real.
At the end of the series, Iāll offer some thoughts on what weāve heard and learned, and where we might go from here.
It promises to be an eye opening and thought provoking journey.
Thanks for joining us.
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation.
Are you leading, following or getting out of the way?
This episode is the first in a series of conversations that Iām having in partnership with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.
For the next five weeks leading up to Cannes, weāre going to focus our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries.
Are we moving fast enough? Are we going far enough? Is this an opportunity to fundamentally redesign the creative industries, or should we adjust and iterate, slowly and carefully? Do we follow the puck, or skate to where itās going? There are opportunities and risks around every corner.
We start with a conversation with Nick Law, who is Creative Chairperson at Accenture Song.
Nick has seen the creative industries from an array of extraordinary perspectives. He was Vice Chairman, Global Chief Creative Officer at R/GA, he served as Chief Creative Officer at Publicis Groupe, and was Vice President of Marcom Integration at Apple, where he co-led the global design and marketing group.
On his Cannes speaker profile, Nick says that he believes all technology needs creativity to make it human, and all creativity needs technology to make it real.
At the end of the series, Iāll offer some thoughts on what weāve heard and learned, and where we might go from here.
It promises to be an eye opening and thought provoking journey.
Thanks for joining us.
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation.
Are you leading, following or getting out of the way?
This episode is the first in a series of conversations that Iām having in partnership with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.
For the next five weeks leading up to Cannes, weāre going to focus our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries.
Are we moving fast enough? Are we going far enough? Is this an opportunity to fundamentally redesign the creative industries, or should we adjust and iterate, slowly and carefully? Do we follow the puck, or skate to where itās going? There are opportunities and risks around every corner.
We start with a conversation with Nick Law, who is Creative Chairperson at Accenture Song.
Nick has seen the creative industries from an array of extraordinary perspectives. He was Vice Chairman, Global Chief Creative Officer at R/GA, he served as Chief Creative Officer at Publicis Groupe, and was Vice President of Marcom Integration at Apple, where he co-led the global design and marketing group.
On his Cannes speaker profile, Nick says that he believes all technology needs creativity to make it human, and all creativity needs technology to make it real.
At the end of the series, Iāll offer some thoughts on what weāve heard and learned, and where we might go from here.
It promises to be an eye opening and thought provoking journey.
Thanks for joining us.
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Which two things are true at once?
Robbie Kaplan is a lawyer and the founding partner at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP.
Robbie is best known for successfully challenging a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act. Today, gay marriage is legal in America because Robbie Kaplan stood in front of the Supreme Court and argued for it.
Recently, she was E. Jean Carrollās lawyer in both of her successful lawsuits against Donald Trump.
And among Robbie's many awards is one from The Financial Times, which named her the āMost Innovative Lawyer of the Yearā.
People that know her, say about Robbie Kaplan, āshe just sees things from a thousand different angles all at once, itās hard to keep up with her thought processes. Sheās not afraid, if she sees a problem, to go figure out some law thatās going to allow her to fix it.ā
Others say she is āa lawyer that you donāt want to see opposing you.ā
They say, āsheās brilliant, sheās unrelenting, she canāt be intimidated and sheās not going to back down. She eats bullies for lunch.ā
And the Washington Post has described Robbie as āa brash and original strategist, a crusader for underdogs who has won almost every legal accolade imaginable.ā
Which may make this admission surprising.
Not everyone doubts themselves.
But many people do.
If you are one of those people, if sometimes feeling that you are an imposter is holding you back, is preventing you from unlocking the potential of the people around you, as in yourself, then let me offer you this.
Two things can be true at once.
You can feel like an imposter and achieve extraordinary things at the same time.
You do have to be clear about the extraordinary things, and why they matter to you.
But then thatās what leadership is all about.
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What is your leadership for?
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is the Junior Senator from the State of New York.
Running for public office places you in a spotlight that is white hot. Being clear why youāve made the choice to run in the first place is table stakes for creating the life you want to live and the legacy you want to leave behind.
In too many companies and for too many people, leadership is seen as the thing that comes next for those who are willing to stick around. The inevitability of rising up the org chart into a role that comes with more everything is too rarely challenged by company or individual.
Leadership is a privilege. An opportunity to make the biggest difference for the most people, that most of us will ever have.
Marty Baron of the Washington Post described it as a responsibility.
Mark Thompson, when he was at the New York Times, described leadership as the act of running towards the gunfire.
Cecile Richards, formerly of Planned Parenthood, described herself as blessed to have been one of the really privileged few that could do what she thought needed doing.
In industries where awards, wins, and results are to the fore, and success is often measured by how many and how much, Iām hoping that some of these conversations will also stir thoughts of what.
What do I want to make better? What do I want to change? What difference do I want to make for the people around me?
Because, as my work continues to evolve and my understanding continues to deepen, what I increasingly know to be true is that the awards, the wins, and the results are directly connected to the whats.
That the leaders who are clearest about what difference they want to make are the ones who have the most evidence of having made it.
Literally and figuratively.
So, what is your leadership for?
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation.
What is your leadership for?
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is the Junior Senator from the State of New York.
Running for public office places you in a spotlight that is white hot. Being clear why youāve made the choice to run in the first place is table stakes for creating the life you want to live and the legacy you want to leave behind.
In too many companies and for too many people, leadership is seen as the thing that comes next for those who are willing to stick around. The inevitability of rising up the org chart into a role that comes with more everything is too rarely challenged by company or individual.
Leadership is a privilege. An opportunity to make the biggest difference for the most people, that most of us will ever have.
Marty Baron of the Washington Post described it as a responsibility.
Mark Thompson, when he was at the New York Times, described leadership as the act of running towards the gunfire.
Cecile Richards, formerly of Planned Parenthood, described herself as blessed to have been one of the really privileged few that could do what she thought needed doing.
In industries where awards, wins, and results are to the fore, and success is often measured by how many and how much, Iām hoping that some of these conversations will also stir thoughts of what.
What do I want to make better? What do I want to change? What difference do I want to make for the people around me?
Because, as my work continues to evolve and my understanding continues to deepen, what I increasingly know to be true is that the awards, the wins, and the results are directly connected to the whats.
That the leaders who are clearest about what difference they want to make are the ones who have the most evidence of having made it.
Literally and figuratively.
So, what is your leadership for?
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation.
What is your leadership for?
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is the Junior Senator from the State of New York.
Running for public office places you in a spotlight that is white hot. Being clear why youāve made the choice to run in the first place is table stakes for creating the life you want to live and the legacy you want to leave behind.
In too many companies and for too many people, leadership is seen as the thing that comes next for those who are willing to stick around. The inevitability of rising up the org chart into a role that comes with more everything is too rarely challenged by company or individual.
Leadership is a privilege. An opportunity to make the biggest difference for the most people, that most of us will ever have.
Marty Baron of the Washington Post described it as a responsibility.
Mark Thompson, when he was at the New York Times, described leadership as the act of running towards the gunfire.
Cecile Richards, formerly of Planned Parenthood, described herself as blessed to have been one of the really privileged few that could do what she thought needed doing.
In industries where awards, wins, and results are to the fore, and success is often measured by how many and how much, Iām hoping that some of these conversations will also stir thoughts of what.
What do I want to make better? What do I want to change? What difference do I want to make for the people around me?
Because, as my work continues to evolve and my understanding continues to deepen, what I increasingly know to be true is that the awards, the wins, and the results are directly connected to the whats.
That the leaders who are clearest about what difference they want to make are the ones who have the most evidence of having made it.
Literally and figuratively.
So, what is your leadership for?
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What do you think and why?
Tom OāKeefe and Jeff King are two of the four partners who have just merged their respective businesses, OKRP and Barkley.
Mergers are a forcing function for open-mindedness. And for doing things differently.
The ability to accept the need to do things differently, to truly change perspectives, is a never ending leadership challenge.
In my experience, you have to be pretty clear about your own point of view in order to embrace new ones.
Worry too much about providing strong leadership, and the temptation to stick to our beliefs ā even in the face of evidence or views to the contrary ā becomes almost like a drug. An addiction to being right or first or better.
This is perhaps the most damaging characteristic that any leader can possess. And too much of it will ensure youāre not a leader of very many or very much for very long.
When we are clear about why we think what we think, when we are free of insecurity or hubris or ego, then we can assess an alternative path with an open mind.
Mergers provoke the need to lead through this lens. Tomās outline for unleashing the creative potential of the newly formed business is filled with best practice.
But regardless of external forcing functions ā like mergers ā being clear about why we think what we think is table stakes for the most fearless leaders.
So what do you think? And what will it take for you to see things from a different perspective?
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