1) The document summarizes a report by Wolff Olins investigating how leadership practices are changing to adapt to employees who are independent and individualistic.
2) It discusses tensions leaders face in creating an "uncorporation" culture that liberates employees while still meeting corporate goals. It also outlines shifts in leadership approaches over time from command-and-control to more distributed and purpose-driven models.
3) Key leadership approaches highlighted include acting as a "Designer in Chief" who focuses on culture rather than outputs, distributed leadership that trusts employees, and providing a "rough sense of purpose" rather than rigid ideologies.
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6. Employees today are uncorporate individualists.
For a CEO, this makes life almost impossible.
How do you make an uncorporate culture, yet still meet corporate
targets?
How do you liberate people, without unleashing chaos?
How do you give people a purpose, without imposing an ideology?
How do you lead, when everyone’s their own leader?
And how do you do it all fast?