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About the Author
Mark Rees is the Chief Operating
Ofcer at Secucloud GmbH,
Hamburg. In his last position Mark
Rees was Managing Director of E-POST
Development GmbH in Berlin, a
subsidiary of Deutsche Post. There, he
led an international team comprised
of several hundred employees in agile
DevOps development teams, and was
responsible for employee direction, as
well as the entire budget in the areas
of IT security, DevOps, quality
assurance, operations and user
experience. In his work as COO at
Secucloud, Rees applies his expertise
in agile leadership and his many
years of experience in interdisciplinary
IT organizations in the Media and IT
security industries.
rust as a subject is rationally difficult to grasp. It
Tis one of those things we intuitively feel as being
present (or not) in human relationships. To get a
grip on the term, let us start with Peter Drucker’s
definition of management “turning resources into
production”. Now consider that what leadership does in a
company is to apply strategies (resources) to achieve
objectives (production). On the one hand the objectives
should be such that they inspire people, bringing out
their best qualities both in skills and collaboration.
Secondly and as a rule, it is the leader who drives the
strategy in order to achieve those objectives and this is
the key area where trust within the team and across
teams can emerge. It is the means utilized to achieve the
ends that define so much about an enterprise. There are
of course coercive means, non-compliant means, even
illegal means etc., thus the old excuse for bad behavior
“the ends justify the means”. In such an environment sub
groups form, secrecy becomes endemic and there can
only be mistrust and suspicion between people.
Approaching the skill of leadership whith consideration
of social and ecological factors allows decisions to be
made under the reflection for example, of waste
reduction, for the good of the many, for sustainable
growth etc. In utilizing social and ecological factors in
decision-making processes, our unique human form of
emotional intelligence is an influential force that
significantly influences behavior both of oneself as a
leader, and as a member of the collective (the business
unit being led). Over time common values and
understanding emerge in the group, which in turn
develop (forms and storms) and fortifies the culture (the
norms), thus producing the high performance unit that
every person blessed with the opportunity to lead can
aspire to. If you get there it’s the best job in the world!
Trust is a human trait that is available to us all. You can’t
simply buy it by attending a leadership seminar, doing an
MBA or reading a book. Trust has to be earned and
shared unconditionally as a gift. It can be rejected,
withheld, it is breakable and can be destroyed in a
second. Yet for all its non-tangibility and fragility, it has
more power to achieve than anything else in the
leadership toolbox.
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