Here are some brief references to topics touched on by the speakers in this session:
Dr. Lalit Johri, Fellow in International Business, Director, Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Programme, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
- Today's leaders need to have a holistic leadership approach that includes issues such as ethics, the environments and others. At Oxford, an evolving Competence Framework with a view to creating 5 thousand leaders in 5 years in Saudi Arabia.
- Leadership is a journey that needs to be constantly pursued.
Mohammed H. Al-Mady, Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC)
- It is essential to give human resources the importance they truly have. We should have companies not only undertake annual financial audits but also human resource audits.
John Drzik, CEO, Oliver Wyman
- Leaders need to be developed on 2 dimensions: Content Leadership: help leaders make better decisions. Context Leadership: help leaders develop the skills to motivate their organizations.
- Most firms put lot's of effort in content leadership and not enough on context leadership. Content leadership can be developed in classroom training but context leadership requires on-the-job training through mentoring programs, shifting staff around different departments, among other techniques.
- Content leadership is more universal in nature whilst context leadership needs to be tailored to country, culture, organization.
Dr. Hans-Paul Buerkner, President and CEO, BCG
- Each person has the responsibility to develop ourselves and the people around us, including our children, our employees, ourselves. It is not just the companies, governments, etc.
- In reality, all companies are about people. We should have a P&L on people management and a "People Flow" like a cash flow but for people.
- Important to give people the chance to work in different parts of the world and with different cultures as well as in different parts of an organization.
- A leader is only succesful beause of his leadership of his team and its not just a charisma issue.
- It's not sufficient to be right but also to be able to have the capacity to communicate it effectively.
- You don't outsource management or leadership.
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