Roselinde Torres shares her thoughts on what it takes to become a great leader
- Roselinde Torres has defined 3 simple questions that can be applied to many aspects of life - private as well as proffesional. Try asking yourself these questions and find the answers.
- 1. Where are you looking to anticipate change?
Is it a business model or your life? The answer is in your calendars — whom are you spending most of the time with? What are you reading? What are your activities? Where are you travelling? And then how do you distill this into understanding potential discontinuities and making a decision on what to do right now. So, it’s about adapting and anticipating. -
2. What is the diversity measure of your network, personal and professional?
As she says, we all have networks of people in which we feel comfortable, but this question is about our capacity to build relationships with people that are different to us — politically, biologically, culturally, socio-economically… It’s about building relationships towards common goals — despite all differences. - 3. Are you courageous enough to abandon the past?
Abandon practice that made you successful in the past, to be more precise. Thing is, even when you become a leader, you often continue doing what’s comfortable and familiar. Great leaders don’t have a problem to dare to be different. They are not afraid of risk.
