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5 Reasons You Can't Be the Leader You Were 5 Years Ago

3. Leaders must manage information saturation.

There is no shortage of information. Leaders today have magazine subscriptions, RSS feeds to blogs, bookmarked Internet news sources, and many other sources of information.

The challenge for leaders today is to know what to read, to whom to listen, and how often to do both. Leaders must both stay current and relevant, and they must be willing to ignore and discard.

It takes wisdom to discern the helpful from the not-so-helpful.

4. Leaders must have a greater awareness of relational intelligence issues.

Leaders must understand and manage a plethora of organizational and social relationships.

They must deal with the soft issues of culture as well as the hard issues of numbers, products, services, and performance. Peter Drucker was on target and prophetic when he said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” (The quote is widely attributed to Drucker, but it was popularized in 2006 by Mark Fields, president of Ford Motor Company.)

Now more than ever, leaders must understand relational and cultural issues, including a frank assessment of the person in the mirror.

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