Leadership and Responsibility

In a recent article,  Pia Lauritzen shared her insights on how leaders can create a sense of responsibility across their organisation. The key insight is that they can do so by smart use of questions – questions that shift the responsibility from them “Me” (self) to “You” (individual) to “Us”. I think she is on to something here. Taking all the responsibility on ourselves makes us feel like a hero or a martyr but doesnt necessarily help us achieve what we set out to. Making our employees responsible for the results questions the role we play and how we contribute […]

How to be an Inspirational Leader

How to be an Inspirational Leader?

One of the expectations as leaders that we have of ourselves is to be inspirational. Everyone talks about how it is important for leaders to be inspirational, to lead their teams to places that they may or may not want to go, to achieve a lot more than they would have achieved if it were not for the leadership. I strongly believe that we should not start with the goal of becoming an inspirational leader , as it is a self-centred perspective. However, I have been thinking about this topic for some time and I believe that there are a […]