There is a massive disconnect at the center of most organizational hiring and performance management strategies, and it is hiding in plain sight. Organizations spend considerable resources crafting job descriptions, screening resumes, and assessing technical qualifications, only to never revisit any of it. Meanwhile, the reason most employees are eventually disciplined or terminated has almost…
Arguably, one of the most disruptive ideas in leadership is not about power, strategy, or vision. It is about subordination. Who follows what and why? Specifically, if leaders need followers, and followers need leaders, then who, or what, does a leader follow? Most leadership frameworks, even the most progressive ones, preserve a fundamental assumption: the…