The Agile Executive

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Marianne Broadbent. The Agile Executive

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To Robert for encouraging and enabling the journey, and to our children David, Andrew, Patrick and Katie for embracing it.

Over the past twelve years I have been a leadership advisor, working with many executives and managers to help them build and sustain the people part of their businesses. My work as a partner and co-owner of NGS Global has two parts to it: the first is about partnering with clients on executive search and recruitment (commonly known as headhunting), the second is about enabling teams and individuals regarding their strengths and career aspirations, while concurrently being, what one of our clients referred to as, a ‘carefully blunt’ sounding board.

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You have to work out what is best for you—and deal with situations as they arise.

My friend and former Gartner colleague, Robin Kranich, calls this the WHY, what is it that makes you want to leap out of bed and take on the world? Robin is Gartner’s Executive Vice-President and Chief Human Relations Officer. Last summer, with two kids away at summer camp she took some time to reflect on what drives her, and her WHY in terms of the mark she wants to leave on the world. In her case, ‘her world’ is her family, friends and the 15,000 or so people she works with at Gartner. She wrote down a list of ‘Truths I know about me’ and the result was that she did figure out her WHY. It was about discovering the unique and differentiated talents of others, helping them to tap into it, and then harnessing the collected strengths of many diverse people and perspectives to achieve their full potential both as individuals and as a company. That is her WHY.

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