The skills Of the new generation of leaders BY : FAUSTO TURCO
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ease the process of evolving with change. First of all: don’t focus too much on knowing how to do one thing, rather on how you know how to do something, much more important. Difference: if you win the 100m at the Olympics, and then get caught for doping, your efforts will have been in vain, and they will leave you alone. But if you win the 100m final at the Olympics as Usain Bolt, with his smile, his hugs, his way of being loved by his colleagues, then the story changes and you will be destined to stay!
your hours in that restaurant.
So why shouldn’t a leader think, educate, build the same experiences within their organization? Why don’t you pay the same attention to your people, in the exact same way as you would like When you go to a restaurant and at the restaurant? want to make a good impres- Why must the Leader’s attitude sion with friends, with your wife be different? or girlfriend, do you give more Getting to have Hard Skills (or importance to the menu or the Technical Skills) is clearly not experience you will have? Will trivial: not everyone manages to you remember that amazing filget there, not everyone has the let, that expensive bottle, or the opportunity to get there. Techexperience that the waiters and nical skills are important and, restaurant managers will give at times, basic to achieve in the you? We are talking about peoworld of work: it takes time, sacple who give you all their attenrifices and sacrifices. But they tion to make you feel better, so, will only take you up to a certain when the high bill comes, your point; you will certainly climb attitude will change profoundimportant positions and roles, ly based on how you have spent but it will always be a run-up to
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