March 6, 2025 - Maximizing business in the changing environment was not a simple task and needed a very thoughtful approach for success. Dr. Frank Lee Harper Jr. was successful in helping organizations face the challenges of COVID-19 and beyond.
Dr. Frank Lee Harper
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Dr. Frank is a learned professional who shared his wisdom for making success in the prevalent environment of uncertainty and increasing complexities for fast-changing business environment. His “Opening Quote”: An organization cannot be what its people, especially its leaders.
He emphasized “Great Business Leadership” is defined with the following.
1. Create a vision
2. Articulate the vision
3. Passionately own the vision
4. Relentlessly drive it to completion
Organizational culture and engagement are most effective in an interdependent culture of change where leadership is a collective activity of dialogue, collaboration, and a focus on learning and valuing differences.
Leadership and culture are key to managing the complexities faced by businesses.
Each business complexity becomes more difficult in a VUCA world marked by boundaryless organizations, limitless digitization, unbounded innovation, and relentless iteration.
Leaders must solve a daunting array of problems with innovative solutions. These problems include but are not limited to digital disruption, environmental degradation, nuclear proliferation, failed states, global pandemics, terrorism, and narcotic crimes.
Our leaders are coached and mentored to flexible (mindsets), collaborative skill sets, and in-control (tool sets) with a focus on an intelligent mindset that embraces both emotional intelligence (EQ) and intellectual intelligence (IQ). We emphasize being EQ since research shows it is 400% more powerful than IQ in predicting individual success.
He emphasized the six eyes of the intelligent mindset: innovation, insight, inactivity, influence, interpersonal skills, and integrity, where integrity is having the courage to meet the demands of your reality.
Examples of being flexible are mindsets that are adaptive, growth-focused, intelligent, learning, and effective.
In response to Question #2: What is Important for Moving to the Next Level of Performance?
He shared that the level of performance maturity is based on an assessment of the six levels of the enterprise modernization maturity model. The higher the level, the more mature an organization is to adapt and respond to changes in the marketplace.
The ranking in placement of the required strength is in order of IMPORTANCE and serial in order of building the strengths, as noted following.
Ranking
#6 Innovation-driven enterprise
#5 Process-oriented enterprise
#4 Service-oriented enterprise
#3 Agile enterprise
#2 Performance-driven organization
#1 Learning organization
Hope this helps
Prof. Dr. Frank Lee Harper Jr. www.linkedin.com/in/drfharper
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