Six Leadership Styles Inspired by Science Fiction

The Han Solo style of leadership is excellent at getting teams to buy into their organization’s goals while still being able to help them pivot when necessary

I was having dinner a few weeks ago with a friend of mine and we started sharing career notes. She had just gotten a promotion at work where she inherited other business functions in addition to the one she currently owns. While she was fairly comfortable with her area of the business, she was trying to think of ways to manage the other areas. One of the major tenets of leadership is learning how to cope with rapid change while evolving. Some of us even wake up one day and stumble into it like two favorite characters from an iconic movie franchise.

Rey, Finn & BB-8 embark on a new adventure of self-discovery.

I now will teleport you for a valuable lesson in leadership utilizing two of the greatest Sci-Fi Franchises…In The Force Awakens, the seventh installment of the Star Wars film franchise, we encounter a new threat, 30 years post the defeat of the Galactic Empire brought on by the First Order. We meet Finn, a defector who crash lands on a desert planet and meets Rey, a tough scavenger whose droid contains a top secret map containing crucial intelligence for the Resistance. They team up with Hans Solo to make sure this information gets delivered. Finn and Rey leave their homes and begin journeys of self-transformation and discover new identities…