Report

17 Principles
of New Leadership

New Leadership for leading in(to) future – including free download!

Why New Leadership?

Traditionally, leadership has been about order, stability and control.

Today, leaders face entirely new challenges: Digitalization, automation, climate change, new value orientations, the shift to a stakeholder economy, and overlapping environmental, social, and political crises require new approaches.

New competencies such as creativity, systemic thinking, resilience, emotional intelligence, complex problem solving, active learning and agile collaboration are required to meet the demands.

However, 70% of leaders do not know how to effectively develop these new competencies (“Global Human Capital Trends 2019” by Deloitte).

How did we proceed?

The biggest challenge we encountered in our research was the sheer volume of promising new leadership concepts. Almost every day, a book on leadership is published.

We selected the new leadership models based on the following criteria: they are supported by data and scientific literature, they put people at the center, they are widespread, and there is sufficient feedback from leaders.

We have invested time to save you time. We have analyzed the leadership models mentioned above and worked out their basic principles. This essence forms the core of new leadership in the 21st century.

Together with Karlshochschule International University, we have reviewed this approach and added the most important meta-competencies.

In this way, we offer you an overview of the most important principles and competencies of New Leadership. Make them the basis of your leadership in the future.

All 17 New Leadership Principles at a glance

Mental Model

Leaders embrace cognitive dissonance through an ‘as-well-as logic’ (integrative thinking)

Rather than

Leaders evaluate and process information through an ‘either-or-logic’ (analytical thinking)
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Behavioral Model

Honest, open and truthful authenticity

Rather than

Diplomatic, calculative and tactic authenticity
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Identity

Dare to be yourself

Rather than

Live up to the expected leadership role
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Mindfulness

Be mindful of how your inner world affects the business

Rather than

Pay attention to how the external world affects the business
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Decision making

Leaders design cultures and systems for decision-making

Rather than

Leaders are decision-makers
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Relationships

Meaningful and human(e) relationships beyond organisational roles

Rather than

Functional relationships based on organisational roles
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Culture

Diversity drives sustainable solutions

Rather than

Uniformity drives fast solutions
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People Development

Emergent learning opportunities based on individual potentials (resourceful human approach)

Rather than

Pre-given career paths and structured development plans (human resources approach)
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Motivation

Foster inspiration by allowing people to do what they love doing

Rather than

Foster mastery by finding out what people are good at
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Organization

Organizations are complex, value-driven social organisms

Rather than

Organizations are complicated, performance-driven machines
Alle Prinzipien

Viability

Partial creative destruction is essential for the survival of the whole

Rather than

Process orientation and predictability stabilise success
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Alignment

Lead through purpose, networks, and agility

Rather than

Lead through strategy, hierarchy, and plans
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Workplace

Value is created whenever and wherever people are empowered and inspired

Rather than

Value creation is taking place at the office
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Performance

Evaluate business performance on social and ecological value contribution

Rather than

Measure success based on profit and loss
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Innovation

Embed intrapreneurship into the organizational culture

Rather than

Make a department responsible for idea generation
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Technology

Technology has to serve the people (humans-first)

Rather than

People have to adapt to technology (technology-first)
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Stakeholder

Holistic stakeholder inclusion is vital for creating positive impact inside and outside the organisation

Rather than

Relevance of stakeholders is defined by their positive influence on profit and economic value
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The world needs more than great management

It needs human-centered innovation. Diversity and liberated workplaces. More dialogue than discussion. Digital and technological savviness. Responsibility beyond profits. System thinking and agility. Culture consciousness. The creativity of all.

triangility is a vibrant community of Leadership & OD Experts as well as Learning Designers who empower organisations to succeed in the 21st century by equipping people with the principles, competencies, and practices of New Leadership and New Work.

Following an interdisciplinary education approach rooted in agile experience design, triangility turns traditional leadership programs into integrated Learning Journeys that foster sustainable transformation through peer-to-peer and on-the-job learning. 

By replacing the classroom context with hybrid spaces for collaboration and co-creation, leaders are invited to learn however they choose whilst being guided and supported by our coaches and consultants at every step of the change process. Through the various generations, areas of expertise, experiences, cultures, and industry backgrounds that merge in the triangility network, each Learning Journey is inspired by Diversity of Thought, carefully curated based on the specific needs of each customer, and delivered in a human-centric format that allows for deeply transformative training experiences.