Employee Self-Leadership – the Key to Success in the New Economy

Self-leadership is an extensive set of strategies focused on the behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that we use to exert → influence over ourselves.

In the → new economy, given the rapid change, complexity, high-tech autonomous work roles and employee empowerment in the knowledge-based enterprises, the new organizational structures are typically run by people who demand a different kind of → Culture  than the old command-and-control format.

→ 9 Signs of a Losing Organization

→ Winning Organization

Today, people are better educated and demand from their jobs more entrusted responsibilities and opportunities for personal growth, not just a paycheck. Talented and empowered employees are the prime ingredient of organizational success and they need to be able to lead themselves.

Empowered Self-Leadership

The highest performing organizations have a theory and practice of leadership and intrapreneurship that subscribes to and promotes the concept that leadership is encouraged and  opportunities for → entrepreneurial action exist at all levels within the organization.

With super-leadership,
followers are treated as
– and become – self-leaders.

Even the lowest-ranked staff within an organization assume → entrepreneurial leadership for their responsibilities and beyond.