Is Your Organization Globally Competitive?

Managers who have been shaped and developed within a mentoring environment are handicap, as their views distort the perception of leadership. Traditional forms of development like mentoring shape managers, not leaders in the image of their predecessor. This type of development quagmire a company's performance, freezing the competitive strategy and back-dating results to the original date of strategic inception. Many managers adopt behaviors that appear on surface, as successful, when in reality they prove obsolete and counterproductive with today's workforce. As current managers, choose successors from a mentoring pool of "likeables personalities" competition among potential leaders is thwarted, leaving miniature copies of past business ideology for replacements. Missing within this group of chosen few, like chapters from human development, are the improvements brought on by failure and a coalesce of diverse cultural creativity.

When we speak of competition within industries, most people would conclude that we are referring to a set of products or services, and would fail to realize forces at work that enable competitive advantages. Intellectual resources embodied in human capital form the innovative aspirations, provide the vision to forecast beyond the here and now, and personify the mission for the organization. Often, this most valued resource is neglected by a time-lapsed decline in material support, a lack of development or an incapacity to appropriately lead.

Traditional forms of management are obsolete in today's global environment, as they are absent of the principle leadership qualities that equip aspiring leaders of those behaviors that are indicative of team success. As organizational leaders, cling to old forms of development like "mentoring" the competitive landscape for most industries decline. The natural consequences of reduced or substandard competition is a slowing of innovation, declining profits and workforce reshuffling, as the overall skill-sets change due to retraining. When the competitive landscape changes as the adaptiveness of an organization is called into question, can we then check our leadership strategy?