Rest on your laurels, coast through meetings, agree to disagree, and your leadership mojo drains away.
To reverse the trend, you must question the status quo and find ways to deliberately walk yourself and those around you to places outside the group's traditional zones of comfort.
Leadership and growth are inseparable in today’s business environment. You can’t have one without the other.
To begin to engage to courageous conversations, you must play the role of heretic: challenge your assumptions, question the insular thinking that dominates most management discussions, and surface the nagging doubts that most ineffective leaders rationalise away.
Just like the commonly used Return on Investment (ROI), Return on Leadership (ROL) measures the impact on the organisation's long-term results from a marginal change in individual performance.
When everyone has access to the same markets, capital, resources, technology, employees and customers, how do you differentiate? New research has shown the difference is Leadership.
Leadership done right is the gift that keeps on giving. Even small increases in leadership capacity yield disproportionate gains, and unlike our experiences in the physical world, advances in leadership aren't subject to the law of diminishing returns. That is because it's not about the leader, it's about unleashing the power of the business or organisation in service to a common vision.
The case studies used by DL Brouwer are not only informative and relevant, but entertaining and really set the tone for the importance of good leadership and results. Small business owners will find this book invigorating with boundless practical applications.
Reference: D.L. Brouwer, 2017. ‘The Return on Leadership: A Three Step Plan to Navigate Change and Unlock Hidden Growth’
