Leadership Insights

Organizations often have sales strategies, marketing strategies, operational strategies, and growth strategies. But many do not have a clearly defined leadership strategy. If leadership is responsible for carrying the strategy, shouldn’t leadership itself have a strategy too? This is where my journey with my research into organizational leadership strategies began, through an idea given to me by Lee Cockerell. He's the one who pointed out this first sentence to me. I would ha

Many organizations still treat the individual leader as the hero of the story. After all, if you do well enough, you could get a business school named after you! But when leadership depends too heavily on individual personality, style, or interpretation, consistency becomes difficult to sustain. The future of leadership may require less hero worship and more organizational alignment. The research of Organizational Leadership Framework and its resulting idea of Theory O Leader

Is Leadership Bigger Than the Leader? Leadership has spent decades asking what makes an individual leader effective. But perhaps the next question is not only, "How do we develop better leaders?" Perhaps it is, "How do we build organizations where leadership itself becomes more aligned, coordinated, and sustainable?" This was my objective when addressing a knowledge gap in leadership: to address the opportunity that organizations often strategize around everything but leaders