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“We work with a number of clients, including attendees of the Forum, who are concerned with the global economy,” says Nathan Rosenberg, one of Insigniam’s founding partners. (Let me disclose right here that I am an Insigniam consultant.)
“Michael Liebrich’s coverage for Bloomberg highlights that, though the World Economic Forum features a compelling theme of transformation, the conversation at the Forum indicates that far too many of these men and women from whom we expect effective leadership are operating in a business-as-usual mode.
"Mr. Liebrich said that leaders are divided into three distinct groups—high-profile leaders, networking executives, and non-governmental organizations and academics; it is highly unlikely that there is any real alignment in those leaders’ purposes and intents which disables the effective exercise of leadership.”
Insigniam has developed four pathways for the World Economic Forum to consider in order to evolve leadership networking and conversations into a fundamental shift in driving breakthroughs for the future:
1. Context Management: Insigniam asserts that organizations producing breakthrough results operate inside of a different context than those in the pack. These distinct contexts are key components of the environments that are created by the leaders themselves.
There is a distinct opportunity for the World Economic Forum to create a new context and corresponding practices that lead to transformational results.
For example, what if the Forum was looked at as a large enterprise, the job of which is to create a specified economic outcome?
2. Cultural Transformation: Practical experience shows that cultures in enterprises and organizations that produce business-as-usual results are distinct from cultures that produce consistent breakthroughs.
Insigniam’s approach to culture transformation blends the formulation of a cultural framework that pulls for success with the tools, insights and methodology to generate consistent breakthrough performance.
The World Economic Forum could move from a meeting of leadership groups to a culture of powerful and effective action and global economic transformation—from talk that produces more talking to conversations that elevates the global economy.
3. Enterprise Transformation: Effective enterprise transformation requires both the individuals of the enterprise to engage in a series of structured conversations that identify, unhook from and retire the influences of the past.
The World Economic Forum could be transformed with Insigniam's enterprise-wide transformation methodology. It could yield a new order of organizational dynamics and performance at the Forum in a very short period of time, with powerful, long-lasting results globally.
4. Effective Leadership: Insigniam’s leadership development offers support to leaders of any organization to dramatically elevate their abilities to generate results with and through others.
The approach is marked by harnessing remarkable ambitions and compelling strategies not bound by past experiences or prevailing beliefs of what is predictable.
This would help the World Economic Forum leverage styles of leadership across categories of leaders—government, corporate, academic—to inspire and provoke actionable, innovative thinking and commitment to more boldly impact the hard realities of the business world, versus discuss and network.
“Insigniam is socially responsible, founded on service and making a difference, and sees the global economy as something in which we have a voice and can impact through working with organizations like the World Economic Forum,” says Rosenberg.
“We are passionate about the vision of the WEF and are reaching out to Klaus Schwab, the Forum’s founder and executive chairman, to offer a pro bono engagement to help drive transformation in the global leadership community.”
Insiginiam is an international management consulting firm serving large-cap firms in multiple industry segments including pharmaceutical, healthcare, consumer goods, transportation, banking, and finance. Since 1985, Insigniam’s proven approach to enterprise transformation, elevating leadership performance, shifting culture and creating speed-to-results for the C-Suite has generated $9 billion in client business results.
What do you think? What can and/or should the World Economic Forum do to address the crisis of leadership? I look forward to reading you on http://thomaszweifel.blogspot.com/.
P.S. To learn more about Insigniam’s enterprise transformation, please visit http://insigniam.com/enterprise_wide_transformation.html.
Sorry but you missunderstand the basic intention of powerful people - they want to keep power and hate nothing more than change. Therefore one may expect from WEF the same as from an exclusive golf club - old men talking about about the global problems and producing only expensive clouds of nice ideas that vanish quickly.
ReplyDeleteOK, you may be right to charge that the WEF is running the risk of being a talking club. But your perspective seems quite cynical and overly generalized. You cannot put all people who attend Davos in the same box. I have met people at WEF who are authentically committed to change and not merely with maintaining their power.
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