Leadership Development

Nearly every day we're hearing stories of companies going out of business or asking for bailouts. All of us are paying for the sins of greed, shortsightedness, indebtedness, arrogance, and a fundamental national failure to carefully take our children’s and grandchildren’s future into consideration.

Some like to blame our leaders. Others hope that the leaders will save us.

The paradox is that great leaders empower all their employees to help lead the way. But most companies violate basic democratic principles on a daily basis. We may live in a democracy, but few people work in one. Speaking the truth – the most valuable gift any employee can offer the boss – is too rarely rewarded or even tolerated.

Old ways worked, to some extent, in old times. But in a world defined by change, organizations must adapt or fail. How will yours respond? Where are your blind spots? Are you willing to shine a light on them?

We worked with Lucent Technologies a number of years ago and asked, who speaks the truth to the leader? Does the leader have a way to find out what is really happening in his organization? Watch this video to learn more.