on life and leadership
One critical mistake that most organisations make is that their leaders usually just deteriorate into managers. This means that leaders get more concerned about maintaining the status quo and, as long as nothing much is changing in the organisation, they behave like the proverbial ostrich and prefer to believe that the situation with the market …
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‘Status quo leadership’ is about carefully keeping everything neat and as it is. It is about doing anything not to upset the way things are and nothing to change them. A leader who does this is practicing, for lack of a better term, ‘status quo leadership’. “Lack of a better term” because it is not leadership. The …
Not everyone you lead is following you. That may sting some leaders’ ego. Being on your team is not synonymous with being on the same page. Neither is it clear declaration of motives. Heretic leaders have to trust that those that rally alongside with them in their cause have the same motives as themselves but …
Some of the heretics we celebrate toady had no idea their impact would reach generations hundreds of years later. Some were just concerned about changing something in their time. Perhaps out of their frustration with their status quo they sought to bring about change by shattering it. In some cases momentary frustrations gave birth to …
Imagine Alexander Graham Bell playing a round of golf and explaining to his buddies he was trying to invent a new thing that would change how we communicate. Clearly not everyone would have understood, let alone supported him. When heretics (those dissenting from the status quo) are about the business of creating new things they often …
