The beginning of January is simply a time of summary and planning targets for the next year of our leadership activities. I wrote “Liberté!” in January 2024 about the tactics to build and monitor the accomplishment of the objectives. I encourage you to refresh your reading of that article. Especially those for whom work on targets is in the process of improvement. This year I would like to encourage you to look at your goals in 1 more very valuable way, in my opinion.
American scientist Angela Duckworth in his book Stubborn. The Power of Passion and Perseverance describes the 4 pillars that let us to build our passions and strive to accomplish our goals. The first is interest. It all starts with uncovering something that truly fascinates us. This interest is simply a spark that ignites our passion. Duckworth emphasizes that interest does not always appear immediately, sometimes it is essential to discover it by trying things and experimenting. It is crucial to be open to fresh experiences and not be afraid to look for what truly attracts us. The second pillar is work. erstwhile you have found your interest, it is essential to work on it daily, persistently. Duckworth talks about the importance of systematic effort, practice and discipline of work. It's not just work for the occupation itself, it's consciously improving your skills and striving for a championship. Perseverance and consistency are crucial here, due to the fact that they let us to transform our interest into a actual passion. The 3rd pillar is sense of meaning. erstwhile we are working on our interest, we begin to see the greater meaning of our action. Duckworth calls it an thought or a sense. This is the minute erstwhile we see how our work affects another people and communities in which we operate. knowing that our actions have value and can benefit others gives us motivation and a sense of purpose. This sense of meaning is highly crucial due to the fact that it helps us to last the hard moments and proceed our work despite adversity. The last, 4th pillar is the belief that the better next day lies in our hands. Duckworth stresses that believing in yourself and your capabilities is crucial to achieving goals. This conviction gives us the strength to act and overcome obstacles. The 4th pillar is the belief that a better next day is in my hands.
As leaders, we set different goals. I encourage you to look at the goals you have set yourself in the context of these 4 pillars. To re-examine for yourself how your leadership goals are to your interests, the work you plan to do in connection with them, the ideas that guide them (whether they are, and if so, what) as well as how your individual leadership goals for 2025 will contribute to a better tomorrow.
If you have found consistency in these 4 answers, this is large information and a measurement of the anticipation of gathering the targets for 2025. If you see a large divided between these 4 pillars, I encourage you to review your goals.
In 2024 I performed a intellectual pivot As a leader, my inspiration for this became ESG. In particular, in the second half of 2024, my interests were focused on ESG regulations. ESG regulations (Environmental, Social, Government) is simply a set of rules and standards aimed at promoting sustainable improvement and corporate and social responsibility.
I was curious in the fact that very small is said about how to diagnose, to see elements of the ESG in functioning leadership strategies, company strategies, and how much attention, especially in mainstream media, is devoted to what a large deal of trouble, cost and challenge this is. Narration is absolutely focused on “this is simply a problem”, not “this is an opportunity”. With a large deal of interest, I have analyzed the scope of ESG regulations and how they can be interwoven into business models of companies. I've been doing business models for many years. I see in these regulations very large possible for work coherence and leadership, in precisely the approach Duckworth writes about.
These events from my leadership activities have become an inspiration for our series of articles on leadership in 2025 to devote the thought of intertwining ESG principles into leadership efforts to build a better tomorrow. I would like to encourage you to go 1 step further in building your goals and strategies in a number of coherent lines of ideas that are behind ESG regulations. This is very consistent for me with the leadership conscious and acting in favour of building a better tomorrow.
The ESC regulation canopy is very complex and incredibly coherent. In my opinion, it is almost a mathematical model for building coherent strategies for the future. However, the level of complexity is undeniable. Hence, Dear Leaders, the thought of moving you through it step by step, based on examples and good business practices with which I have the pleasance of working.
Based on the pillars that Duckworht points out in his book, my interest in the subject of ESG has resulted in a very large work that I have done together with the squad in the field of regulatory analysis and mapping them for good activities in business models of companies and another organizations.
And while the motivations of the leaders I work with in this area are different – any are based on the ideas of a good next day and sustainable development, others are based on the motivation to avoid reporting – my thought of action developed this year is one: to advance sustainable improvement through sharing cognition of ESG in business models. From the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the alleged Earth Summit, on which papers were adopted laying down fundamental principles in socio-economic policy requiring environmental protection to be included more than 30 years ago (the summit was held in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro). It has taken so long to make comprehensive ESG regulations, which we will now start implementing. Let us do this consciously, consistently and well.
Dear Leader, dear Leader, on the occasion of 2025, I want you a large deal of joy in my function and building it on the energy of perpetuity for a better tomorrow.
