When Followers Give  Legitimacy To Their Leader

When Followers Give Legitimacy To Their Leader

Duncan Sterling was the kind of student any Dean would dream of having on their M.B.A. as his sharp mind and remarks were keeping faculty on the edge and he would “take no bullshit”… I guess he hasn’t changed much! He commented on a recent post of this blog and added...

"Maybe it is my fault…"

Here is to the wonderfully courageous, highly human and therefore imperfect leaders who courageously take the risk of exposing themselves, by getting closer to their people, aiming at co-creating clarity, purpose and wide ownership around their company’s Strategic...

“Generous leaders disappear behind the Purpose”

I had an illuminating week in Brazil, first with a wonderfully courageous leadership team nearby Porto Alegre whose intuition was that they absolutely needed to “reduce the distance” between them in order to create the conditions for “Leadership as a process” to...

“Egocentric leaders destroy value”

Last week’s post on “Leadership as a process” has generated a lot of discussions via direct e.mails (it must be thanks to the football clip…) I thought useful to summarize and report conversations held with two CEO’s whose challenges were around: Is “leadership as a...