What Kind of Leaders Do We Need to Be Now? | BoF VOICES 2021

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The Business of Fashion

Fashion & Beauty, Business, Arts

4.6 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

While the initial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic manifested in workplaces through budget cuts, layoffs and furlough schemes, the crisis also inspired a widespread re-evaluation of our relationship with work. Amid the so-called “Great Resignation,” Business Insider estimated over 38 million workers quit their jobs in 2021, with many seeking a better balance between life and work, and greater meaning in the work they do.

These evolving expectations are having a profound impact on how leaders have to run their businesses. At BoF VOICES 2021, Kevin J. Delaney, co-founder and CEO of media and Charter and former editor-in-chief of Quartz, examined the qualities leaders need to assimilate today.

On this week’s episode of The BoF Podcast, Delaney says: “One question I hear often from leaders is how do they find the right balance between a focus on operational performance of their business and these new expectations of their employees?”

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion.
0:08.0	Welcome to the BOF podcast. It's Friday, March 4th.
0:12.0	Next week on BOF, it's Careers Week, that time of year when we put a spotlight on our platform,
0:18.0	BOF Careers, the global marketplace for fashion talent.
0:22.9	And on the subject of careers, there has been much discussion about the so-called Great
0:27.7	Resignation. People everywhere are reevaluating their relationship with work. I prefer to think of this
0:34.2	as the great recalibration, where people are more focused on finding
0:37.8	the right balance between life and work, with an emphasis on finding a greater sense of purpose
0:43.5	and meaning in everything that they do.
0:46.2	The mass resignations that we're seeing everywhere are simply a symptom, not a cause.
0:51.9	So this week on the BOF podcast, to give us some perspective on the future of work
0:56.6	and the role of leaders in this new climate. And pleased to share this talk by the co-founder and
1:02.2	CEO of Charter, Kevin Delaney, who will talk about the role of leaders amid this great
1:08.1	recalibration. Here's Kevin Delaney at BOF Voices 2021.
1:14.0	Has anyone here ever had a bad boss?
1:18.3	Raise your hand?
1:19.2	Okay.
1:19.9	This is the fashion industry.
1:23.0	Sorry.
1:24.6	I once had a particularly bad boss.
1:27.3	My first job after university was working for a television
1:30.3	production company in Montreal. We're a team of eager 20-somethings who were recruited by a producer
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