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What 4 things do modern leaders need to be?

13 July, 2015 By WiC

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In her Keynote Address, Inga Beale, CEO Lloyd’s told the Future Leaders Award Ceremony audience

Being a modern leader, no longer means commanding and controlling employees – if it ever did. Modern leadership has to be about empowering and engaging employees instead.  And I think it is here that women really have an edge – with EQ not just IQ.

She said that modern leaders need to:

  1. be ever-more innovative. And that’s because traditional business model are being disrupted left, right and centre.
  2. have a global outlook. By 2030, the economies of the E7 will be larger than the economies of the G7
  3. have a love of technology. If you don’t, someone else will – and you will lose either your customers or your employees or both.
  4. be better connected to their staff – and I mean emotionally, not just physically. We work across borders; across time-zones.

Inga Beale ended by saying:

The world has changed significantly since I started my career. But one thing remains stubbornly persistent – the gap between women joining the industry, and women becoming senior leaders.

There are 5 female CEOs in the FTSE 100 – and, coincidentally, we have 5 finalists for our award this morning.

So, Ladies, stick with what you’re doing. Let’s double that number!

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