Find out what is important to your colleagues, your boss and/or your employees. Whether or not you can ever do anything to help with these causes, don't you think it would be good to know what is important to them?
Weak leadership is prevalent but surmountable by starting with an attitude adjustment. Instead of thinking of other leaders as “they”, remember that it’s a team effort and collaborate as “we”.
Supply chains continue to increase in complexity. I've observed this firsthand from managing hundreds of projects in manufacturing organizations over the last 25 years, including navigating end-to-end supply chain. Being able to effectively manage this complexity is essential to achieve important business objectives–growth and profitability.
Although traditional project management gains results, using a bit of agile common sense can provide two critical factors in the current business climate – speed and flexibility.
I cannot tell you how people I've seen who have had a profound impact - with followers throughout the company - who were not in a direct leadership role.