Fundamentals of Level Three Leadership

5. Understanding All the Forces at Play

Concept

The second element of the Leadership Point-of-View (LPV) is “understanding all the forces at play.” Many who are promoted out of a functional leadership responsibility continue to see the world primarily from their comfortable mental platform—their historical experience. Executives who come from operations are likely to be most concerned about efficiencies, productivity, fixed assets, and supply chains. Executives who come out of finance are likely to focus mostly on balance sheets, equity, operating ratios, stock price, and the economy. This will be exacerbated to the extent their contracts emphasize stock price (stockholders’ interests). Executives who came out of marketing are more likely to ...