Develop Leaders at Every Level

Everyone is a leader. Leaders influence others to help achieve the mission, or the desired outcome. Locally, this focuses on the present task: Good leadership delivers results.

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A broader modern view of leadership expands “the results” beyond immediate mission to include the bigger picture mission and the long term success of the organization. It encompasses the responsibility of leaders (everyone) to the people they lead (everyone else): the success of each of us ought to be measured in part by the long-term success of the people we lead.

Therefore, everyone must be taught to think like a leader, to embody a Founder’s Mentality.

To learn how to do this, see How to create leaders.

Military Examples

I was disturbed by the close coupling of the technical competence of the leader with the performance of the organization. […] a good ship could become a bad ship overnight when a new CO came aboard. […] I concluded that competence could not rest solely with the leader. It had to run throughout the entire organization. Marquet (2012) - Turn the Ship Around