Focus on the Future While Optimizing the Now - Authentic Leadership

Defining Leaders With Kristin Gupta

In today’s episode, we’ve invited Matt Ley, Principal at Flip The Script, an expert consultant working with companies to align their strategies to their business goals to maximize results. Matt will help us through the conversation on how we can vision forward to the future in our business while at the same time ensuring today is run well.

The conversation started by Matt giving us a few important points to consider especially now that so much is happening and there’s so many blurred lines when it comes to roles in companies. He gave us clarity on different concepts such as leadership vs management, vision vs integration, responsibility vs accountability and titles vs activities. He addresses an important topic on responsibilities in companies.

Listen in this episode and learn about what you could do to focus on the future while optimizing today.

Episode Highlights

2:10 A lot of what this presentation was about and what we're trying to do here is, I think I’ll call it concept clarity, we're taking things that look like they should be similar and teasing them apart to the subtle differences.

3:29 If the vision is running too far ahead of the integration or the integration is too set in its ways where it's at and it's not falling apart, there becomes this disconnect, possibly even a break.

4:56 A leader is someone who lives at the strategic level, a manager is someone who lives at the tactical layer, an individual contributor is someone who lives at that operational level of the value creation.

9:08 Leaders are there to define the new; managers are there to refine the now.

13:40 You need to talk about what value you bring for creating vision, what value you bring for creating optimization to multiply value.

Contact

Kristin Gupta Website

Matt Ley LinkedIn