Replacing shareholder value with stakeholder value requires new systems of leadership. There is an entirely new value proposition for employees and leaders need to understand this.
Transformational Leadership for the New Economy
Employee Management Vs. Employee Development
How an innovating design to organizational leadership turned a failing elementary school to one of the highest performing schools and the only school to close the achievement gap within a district of 25,000 students.
Models of Leadership – The Future of Leadership
Replacing shareholder capitalism with stakeholder capitalism will require new systems of leadership designed to implement new corporate values.
Measuring the System of Leadership
Someone famously said, “what gets measured gets done.” If this is true, then every organization should have a process for measuring its system of leadership. Since leaders are primarily responsible for the employee experience, this should be a significant opportunity for analysis. In a well-written article published by Deloitte Insights (June 20, 2019) by the…
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The Definition of a leadership System
Systems are responsible for virtually everything we see around us. DNA is a system and from it springs the very foundation of life. This article applies the power of a system to organizational leadership
Innovations in Leadership, Leadership, Leadership Systems, Organizational Leadership, Systems Thinking
What is a System of Leadership – Designing a High Impact Culture
As I started doing the research for the book, Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership, I was looking for evidence of leadership systems. Which obviously meant I had to know what is a system of leadership? It also meant that I had to recognize a system of leadership if I saw one. However, I also wanted…
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How To Engage Employees For Maximum Impact?
How to engage employees is one of the most critical topics in business literature. When Gallup calculates the economic value of a highly engaged workforce, we all want to know how to do it. However, after reading an article by By Todd Nordstrom, I wonder if we are asking the wrong question. Todd states: Engagement…
Lean Management Drives Lean
Too often lean is understood as a technique to improve processes. We ignore the other side of the Lean equation. The Lean Management System, which is a system of leadership. For example, I had been invited to facilitate a lean workshop with a large state agency. The division had been hammered during the recession with…
Leadership Development the Right Way
the US Military is widely recognized as the absolute best in developing leaders. In this post, I relate an interview with a 4-star general as he explained to me how the US Army trains and develops leaders.