The Critical Few - Self-disruptive Leaders

Disruptive forces are driving the future of work. And to ensure that organizations succeed in a rapidly changing business environment, new kind of future-ready leaders are needed. But are corporate leadership structures evolving to maintain pace with disruption?

- Dhruv Mukerjee

When it comes to the English language, more often than not, the excessive usage of a word leads to it losing its significance. The same can be said about the word ‘disruption’ in today's business context as disruptions are slowly becoming the norm within many modern-day business sectors. The advent of what many have been calling the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the collective impact of changing technological prowess of modern day businesses and evolving talent preferences, holds the key to just that — to disrupt how current businesses perform, earn profits, interact with their consumers, and take talent decisions today. And to do so successfully and often proactively, it is important to have qualified leadership at the helm of it all to guide such disruptions to meaningful ends, or perhaps a leadership structure that remains open to ‘self-disruption’ as a way to remain ahead of the curve. But before we begin to define what constitutes a ‘self-disruptive’ leader, it is important to see how the current crop of business leaders have been performing.

Changing the scope of modern-day leadership