The Future of Your Business | Anschuetz on Leadership

The Big Themes:

• You must preserve the core of your business: Leadership is about to make the investments, provide the autonomy, create the innovation culture and align it to your overall strategy.
• The four freedoms: An organization that allows for innovation, capability to really thrive, grow, and affect the future of your business.
• What I call the beacon model: You create a capability that is related – but separate from the core of your business.
• These are courageous innovators: They have to be able to frame and form their own culture. There is a certain amount of operational form of freedom.

The Big Quotes:

“So the relationship between leadership and courage – and then the ability to be an innovator.”

“Jeff Bezos he has a bunch of them, but one of my favorites is he says something to the extent of, ‘You cannot be afraid of being misunderstood.’”

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