LBS MBA Essay 2: What Makes you Unique (200 Words)
Inclusive leadership is not democratic leadership, which, according to studies, is the worst kind of leadership in a crisis.
Asking for votes for every small decision is counterproductive. That is why in democratic societies, we have representatives to take care of the interests of the constituents.
Inclusive Leadership is much more nuanced.
Case Study: Inclusive Leadership (Pulse of the Team)
An applicant shared how his recommender taught him this ‘interesting’ technique to take the pulse of the team by asking three things they loved in work from last week and three things they didn’t enjoy. If the majority voted on one aspect of a project as the ‘worse’, there is a deeper problem brewing.
One time, the problem was on lack of communication on escalating the urgency of certain deliverables. The client often in the last minute would changed the scope of the deliverable. In a highly evolving industry like AI, this was considered an acceptable protocol, but when the client began changing the scope every week, the team’s key contributors were on the verge of quitting.
The weekly ‘pulse’ of the team session helped the applicant, a team lead, understand the crisis that could emerge if key ‘talent’ quit the team. He escalated the problem with his manager and negotiated a policy on the ‘change’ frequency. The negotiated terms helped the team complete all test scenarios before pivoting to new LLM models.
The persistence helped as an LLM model considered insufficient turned out to be effective for the client’s banking needs. Chasing the latest and fastest models was not necessary.
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