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Where Have All Our Leaders Gone?
Once the pinnacle of power in an organization, the trend over the past 10 years has been to reduce leaders to “Mr. & Ms. Nice Guy/Girl.”
Setting Leaders Up to Fail
While there are those organizations, traditional and entrepreneurial, that recognize leaders need to be developed and systems need to be in place to support high performance leadership, there are just as many who don’t.
Don’t Blame the Leaders: Train Them!
Research shows that most leaders have been in the role for, on average, almost a decade before being trained on how to manage people.
No Leadership Credentials Required
Leadership, like parenting, is one of the few professions that requires little to no training or experience prior to being placed in or promoted into the role.
Leadership by Osmosis
Given the lack of training for leadership roles, you’d think that its easy to one day just show up and lead. However, we know that is not the case. It is just magical thinking to believe that leaders will figure out on their own how to be effective without providing the training, experiences and development support.
Leading With Authority
The pendulum has swung from the autocratic leadership style of the past, to today’s new norm of highly permissive, ’empowering’ leadership approaches.
Authority, Today’s Dirty Word
There’s a movement afoot in business that is increasingly prevalent and problematic. We call it the anti-authority movement.
Entitlement is Created, Not Unique to Millennials
Leaders today are too quick to blame the millennials—their work ethic, sense of entitlement and need to be coddled—for performance gaps and behavioural issues.
Leading Millennials: Not So Different After All
Many surveys say that Millennials have a different set of values than the older generation. But isn’t this just a function of being in your 20’s and early 30’s?
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