WHY LEADERSHIP CAN'T BE ALL ABOUT YOU!

Coherent your leadership as building an organisation, shaping it's culture, and operating like a node in a larger network of followers, collaborators, and other leaders. If leadership is emergent, you need to keep developing relationships among people that learn and create value, and a culture that supports that.

Learn how to let go of power. "All about you" leadership stalks from self-doubt; you think if you don’t give the orders, and make all the decisions, you can’t be “a real leader.” Sometimes you do need to set direction and make decisions; but operating in an emergent organisation depends on developing a sense when that’s needed, and when it gets in the way of other protuberances.”

Your most critical tools are building others’ capability, encouraging them, and expressing disappointment when they screw up. In an organisational approach, every leader must continuously improve the skills and learning of others. But motivation sometimes depends on correcting behaviour that goes off-course.

Be proud in your leadership but accept the influence of situation and luck in what you can accomplish; does not plead for self-defeating humility. “Leaders can make a major positive difference, but they have to understand that the impact they want to have is never guaranteed, even with all the right skills and plans. We have all known bad leaders; abusive, autocratic, dishonest; who can still succeed. But in the end, it all comes out. You have to keep learning to be better for the long term.”