New skills required for the work of the future will define talent and employability of professional profiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How to foster and manage new talent? I.e., what leadership qualities should be fostered and what kind of team dynamics work best?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Companies are increasingly flatter and less hierarchical; their teams self-manage and agility in problem solving, and decision making is vital\u2014the much-mentioned “AGILE” concept applied to a new way of working: agile management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All these conditions put together drive forward the need for a new type of leadership: lateral leadership. Pamela Mead<\/a><\/strong> illustrates it with the concepts that appear in Tim Herbig’s<\/a> book Lateral Leadership: A Practical Guide for Agile Product Managers<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In short, lateral leadership:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The foundations for success are people and culture, according to the serial entrepreneur Vincent Rosso<\/a><\/strong>, who is behind the launch of BlaBlaCar in Spain and co-founder and CEO of Consentio, and shared some remarks in one of our “Coffee with entrepreneurs”(in Spanish).<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pamela Mead shared more keys regarding the new leadership:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We went from teams whose mission was to do the boss’s bidding to teams that cared about a shared outcome, and that are very committed to the company. Teams of incredibly talented professionals and perhaps with strong personalities, but that know how to set aside their egos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n