It’s The Culture, Stupid!
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Pickthebrain.com has an article about the effect of organizational culture on leadership. Sort of a chicken and the egg type of thing, very interesting article.
After a 10-year study of over 24,000 employees across multinational corporations, our team came to a startling conclusion about leadership: the more you develop yourself as a leader, the less of a leader you are.
How could this be? We ourselves were dumbfounded when we asked the leaders of Fortune 500 companies for the key to their success. They each had the same answer: “Don’t ask me. I didn’t do anything!”
Finally, however, the answer became very clear: the leader does not shape the organization. It’s the culture.
Culture eats strategy for breakfast, any day of the week. So the successful leaders were the ones who stopped focusing on themselves, and created a world class culture. This made their leadership appear “effortless” to both them and everyone around them because they leveraged the strength of the entire group, or as we say, “tribe.”
This leads to a very important finding: if you are empowering yourself instead of your tribe, you are hurting your company.
Go check it out, PicktheBrain.com is a great site. I recommend going through the all-time favorites. http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/its-the-culture-stupid/
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