The Reconnected Leader

Norman Pickavance

Norman Pickavance's new book, The Reconnected Leader, provides an eight-step model for implementing new practices to help leaders reconnect with their teams and reset the relationship the business has with its stakeholders.

Those eight steps are:

1. Discovering the power of purpose
2. Building reconnected boards
3. Creating reconnected work environments
4. Nurturing a spirit of shared enterprise
5. Connecting with the wider world
6. Creating deeper customer connections
7. Inspiring connected innovators
8. Creating a new model for your personal leadership

Pickavance explains that all the following factors facing leaders today are the reasons for learning how to reconnect:

• struggles with ethical policies
• disconnected boards
• careerism
• disposable workforce
• big data
• losing touch with customers

One of my favorite parts of the book is the one that outlines the five principles of a purpose-driven business:

1. Does your organization have a purpose that delivers long-term sustainable performance?
2. Is your business fair and honest with customers and suppliers?
3. Are you a responsible and responsive employer?
4. Are you a good citizen?
5. Are you a guardian for future generations?

Thanks to the book's publisher's for sending me an advance copy of the book.