Does every manager need to be a leader?

How do you see new technologies affecting leadership and leaders?

Does a leader need power?

Phil gives us a brief commentary on leadership and influence after reading a Harvard Business Review article "The Fundamentals of Leadership Still Haven't Changed" by Ron Ashkenas and Brook Manville. The HBR article describes the six common and long lasting principles of leadership worldwide. Phil offers a Human Hackers view on the trend towards development of the leadership core.

When you have done all the hard work to develop your identity & things are rosy, how do you go to the next level? The answer is “Character”. Creating a character allows you to externalise that identity & to not only create a new level of sustainability for the business, but also a whole new level of freedom to express.

Episode #5 explores:

1. The impactful nature of the character

2. The freedom required to develop it &

3. The power of association to generate performance.

We discuss the intangible magic that allows some people to have incredible presence & magnify their purpose. The three key elements to develop the edge you need to take your influence from average to extraordinary include:

1. Commitment

2. Willingness to Express

3. Starting State

Tune in to find out more about improving your own presence.

If we understand what contributes to identity & how to shift those elements to create the identity we want, the next obvious question is “how do we use that to our advantage ?”. In this episode, we look at influence in terms of our own actions & how we can therefore influence the actions of others as a result of face to face and online transactions.

With the knowledge of contributors from episode #1, we now deep dive into ways in which we can enhance our understanding of how we are creating our identity, therefore opening up the potential to shift it. We discuss some steps to enhance our self awareness and reveal the value of pushing our own boundaries. By deliberately breaking through our everyday selves and the habits we cling to, we discover new and unexplored ground. This give us more freedom to evolve and change as we see fit.

The very first episode of Human Hackers and the beginning of an initial series called The Challenges of Finding Your Identity.

Identity is a key piece of the equation in defining who we are. It serves as a guide to determining what actions we take and therefore what we can achieve. It also serves as a guide to determining who we think other people are and their alignment (or not) to us. This podcast episode explores some fundamentals of what contributes to identity and ultimately what is within our control.