The days when a great leader at the top could learn for the entire organization are gone. As Senge points out, "in an increasingly dynamic, interdependent and unpredictable world, it is simply no longer possible for anyone to 'figure it all out at the top.'" For Senge, "leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capacities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models -- that is, they are responsible for learning."
Still, too many CEOs see communication as a one-way street where, as one military leader put it, "We have a responsibility to communicate vision to our subordinates and they have a responsibility to be open and receive our communication." Today, that kind of approach is nonsense on stilts. You can't have a "sell down" vision. You need a shared vision.
Great Leaders Don't Have Followers: They Collaborate. Huffington Post Business. 8/10/2015
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