Our leadership asks:

Find out what it takes to
​​​​​​​be a leader at Philips

Great leadership is guided by integrity, translates vision into reality and empowers teams to succeed together. At Philips, our leaders are role models and changemakers and should be the best they can be – for our organization, our people and themselves. They have an important, impactful role to play. That’s why our Leadership Asks – a set of five essential principles - clearly define the qualities and behaviors we expect and champion.

1. You are bold with a Customer First and enterprise leadership mindset.
This means:
  • ​​​​​​​You are outcomers-oriented, keeping the bigger picture in mind and focusing on your customer's success ahead of organization's or your own. 
  • You take action to deliver impact. You will focus (fewer) to deliver quality and customer success (better) and scale (bigger). 
  • You orchestrate end-to-end execution and optimize performance across the enterprise.
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2. You are an exemplary role model for our Philips behaviors & culture.​​​​​​​
This means:
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​You put customers first every time, all the time.
  • You vigilantly and rigorously preserve patient safety, quality control and integrity always. 
  • You team-up to win.
  • You take ownership to deliver fast.
  • You have an agile mindset, eager to improve and inspire.

3. You catalyze transformation to rise performance.​​​​​​​

This means:
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​You drive improvement, structurally resolving performance root causes to enable high performance.
  • You reduce complexity and enable solutions and new business models.
  • You resource and orchestrate plans well to ensure excellent execution along the value chain to the customer. 
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4. You fully commit and drive swift execution.​​​​​​​
This means:
  • ​​​​​​​You clarify accountability and empower our 80,000 people to act with excellence and speed.
  • You run effective meetings, creating a safe environment where voices are heard, and clear decisions made. 
  • You are decisive, not delegatinh dilemmas or allowing ‘optionality’. You compassionately enforce execution until goals are achieved.​​​​​​

5. You develop people, skill-up teams and upgrade capabilities.​​​​​​​
This means:
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​You cascade these Leadership Asks to next levels of management and get the right people in the job.  
  • You onboard people to full effectiveness in their role. You take time to listen, coach and develop. 
  • You regularly give/seek personal feedback, praising productive behavior and changing unproductive behavior.
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“As leaders we act boldly and swiftly - with an enterprise mindset - to raise norms of excellence, to win more customers and gain market share, and smartly develop and empower our 80,000 people to achieve our purpose.”