The Hero Leader Problem

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 Leadership is not to take away from all the work to this point in leadership, but rather shift the perspective and focus on leadership as a collective group in need of collaboration.