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New Roles for leadership
How does research into leadership view the effects of Industry 4.0 and 5.0 on leadership? A number of general patterns can be seen.
Industry 4.0
• The importance of having a clear strategic vision and a picture of how the future will develop. 5-year or preferably 10-year or even 20-year horizons are required.
• Having an entrepreneurial feeling and being smart: To see new opportunities even if they are disruptive. Act and develop business continually.
• The creative leadership: Encourage creativity by being creative oneself and by recruiting people with a genuine creative ability.
• Interdisciplinary: Let different competences work together. Recruit unexpected talents.
• A team player shows the way in his/her leadership and creates the conditions for fruitful teams.
• Communication competence: Understanding of communications strategic importance and effect in a super-connected Tiktok-world.
• Innovation focus: The ability to convert competence, creativity and development work into valuable innovations.
• Adaptability, flexibility and the ability to act independently quickly.
• The ability to pass on new knowledge: To create a learning organisation.
• Ability to handle uncertainty and threats
Industry 5.0
• To have a social vision: To serve society and in a wider perspective the whole of mankind. That which both drives your organisation in the right direction and at the same time mitigates wicked problems.
• Favouring human intelligence and values: To see human production and creativity as unique and decisive. Reduce dehumanisation and unnecessary digitalisation.
• Emotional Intelligence: To understand the mood and to act on it to improve the organisational climate and employees’ well-being.
• Ethical innovation: Take into account the consequences of a new innovation on, for example, democracy, integrity and sustainability.
• Resilience: A way of thinking about how the organisation can increase resilience to wicked problems in the long-term.
• From shareholder to stakeholder.
