Towards a New Narrative of Leadership

Challenges 2 Purposeful Leadership versus pure Profit Maximization Trust building, internal and external, through sustainable value creation Mutual Leadership versus Self-Centric Leadership Mutual value creation with and for stakeholders Interconnected Leadership versus a Firm-Centric View Value creation in networks

Building a New Narrative of Leadership 3 From the invisible hand of the market to the visible hands of leaders Markets do not operate by their own invisible hand but by the visible hands and the active shaping of the leaders Sources: Sachs S., Rühli E., Stakeholders matter. A New Paradigm for Strategy in Society, Cambridge University Press, in print Alfred D. Chandler: The Visible Hand. A Managerial Revolution in the American Business, 1977

Aim of the project  Building a New Narrative of Leadership  Development of Supporting Structures: Implementation and Evalution in Firms and Organizations 4

Configuration of the Project: Engaged 5 A New Narrative of Leadership Center for Human Resources Management & Leadership Center for Corporate Social Responsibility Institute for Strategic Management: Stakeholder View Pioneers sharing experience of new narrative Funding partners investing in project; gaining new rights Storyteller pooling of existing knowledge for new narratives