Did You Know…
that the ability to lead across boundaries is emerging as a crucial leadership skill according to the Center for Creative Leadership?
Top executives know the importance of bridging organizational and cultural divides; vertical and horizonal gaps; and stakeholder, demographic and geographic groupings as they seek solutions to today’s most pressing business challenges based on a survey of 128 senior executives. Eighty-six percent of the executives in the study considered it “extremely important” that they collaborate effectively across boundaries in their current leadership role. But just 7 percent of those executives believed they were “very effective” at doing so.
“Closing this gap is both a critical challenge and a hidden opportunity,” says Center for Creative Leadership Chris Ernst. “Today’s uncertain business environment requires leaders to think and act beyond status quo boundaries. It requires developing new, collaborative boundary-spanning practices to forge direction, alignment and commitment a the intersection between groups.”
