From Chief Executive to minimum-wage-contract-cleaner I see leadership potential in everyone every day. It is never about job role or hierarchy, but always about how we are with the people around us and the small differences we feel empowered to make. Here are ten questions to help you encourage leadership in everyone and to hold yourself to account as well.
The mythology of leadership has too often constipated companies, stifling creativity, thoughtfulness and kindness. However when an organisation decides that literally everyone is a leader, extraordinary things can happen. Process, efficiency and discipline are, of course, essential ingredients in any successful workplace, but it is the people who inspire. If we conflate people with process we lose far more than we ever gain.
We thrive on the difference we make, not the conformity we impose. We are all leaders, let us be leaders.
Take care.
Paul Gilbert