The Story About Leadership (1)

The Call to Adventure

We fall back, in these crazy and chaotic times, on the command-and-control model of leadership - a model that no longer accords with how dynamic leaders actually operate.

We seek shelter in the fantasy of a leader who has The Answers... who promises "change" or "success" or "profits" in exchange for patient "followership" (aka "obedience"). But in an age where all value flows from creativity and initiative, we must imagine and embrace a model of leadership that is loose, open, and perpetually innovative.

We ask leaders to be "good stewards" of the assets they inherit. But in an age when permanence is a dangerous delusion, we must instead ask leaders to challenge the legacies that they have inherited, to create entirely new value propositions - and then to get out before they get stale.

The Journey

I will search and publish in this journey stories of leaders:

Who believe Leadership is Joyous! As a matchless opportunity to Make a Difference by marshaling the talents of others to a Seriously Cool Cause

Who believe Leadership is Horrible! An exercise in sorting through the mess of human relations, in all their gory detail, day after day.

Who believe Leadership is Cool! A Glorious Adventure that enables us to magnify our impact on the world.

Who believe Leadership is Lonely! It is a battle against doubt and dread in which you have only your own judgment about human nature to fall back on

Who believe Leadership is Different! It is a matter not of 'doing' great but of 'inspiring' greatness in others.

Who believe leadership is The Ultimate Responsibility. It's an assumption of accountability... for people you cannot control, for actions that you do not perform, for institutions that do not share your sense of accountability

Who believe leadership is .. Not what you think! It is not about 'command and control' or kingly charisma. It is about living in the depths and soaring to the heights (rallying others to invent and then pursue seemingly impossible dreams).

Who believe Leadership is the Hero's Journey & Heroine's Journey. It is an story of a quest through which to summarize this long journey that we have taken through our Disruptive Era. It is a never-ending project with a breathtakingly simple (and breathtakingly difficult) core objective: Re-Imagine Your Story!