Leadership Will Always Be a People Discipline
Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras-based management consulting firm with a comprehensive project management practice. Andy always appreciates feedback and discussion on the issues raised in his articles and can be reached at [email protected]. Andy's new book Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations is now available.
Leadership has always been about people. Not just the kind of leadership skills that we generally think of as project professionals, but any kind of leadership. C-suite executives are business leaders and make difficult decisions around strategy, operations and finance. But those decisions are still people-centric. People are impacted by them, people need to implement them, and ultimately, people have to believe in and commit to them or the executives won’t remain in their roles.
Now that AI is enabling a fundamental reimagining of how work gets done, it’s only natural that the impact of the technology on leadership is also considered. It’s naïve to assume that there won’t be any AI-driven changes to leadership, but I firmly believe that leadership will remain a people-focused, people-driven discipline.
Why leadership matters
Let’s start by considering the most basic question: Why does leadership matter?
Sure, there needs to be someone making decisions at the various levels of the business: a CEO for the organization as a whole, a PM for a project. But that’s not all that leadership is about. To me, leadership is the ability to enable people to work as effectively and efficiently as possible. That combines a lot of different elements—some of them obvious, some less so.
In the “obvious” category are the …
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