ALWAYS LEAD
the playbook for winning organizations
what if…
your organization flows in synchronicity, morphing to the needs of the moment
you out-achieve even the Goliath competitors
and your profitability soars
a crisis of confidence
People are an organization’s greatest asset. But their treatment does not support this truth. The vast majority of managers attempt to control org charts, enforce job descriptions, and punish those who venture outside these constructs. People are not revered as irreplaceable forces of wisdom and infinite possibility.
The irony. We know this is counter-intuitive to the human experience and the definition of leadership. But organizations persist in this act of self-sabotage, and wonder why their retention rates and financial results suffer.
Organizations – corporations, government, educational institutions, and nonprofits – form the fabric of our nation. And the fabric is fraying. Ninety percent of the workforce is profoundly dissatisfied. Depression and anxiety are normalized conditions. And as headlines proclaim daily, most organizations fail.
I am reminded of President Carter’s words decades ago: “It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives.”
The antidote
A leadership system that supports the expansion of the whole person, and unfurls the organization’s wings to fly.
for leaders
what if the best talent appeared,
created an electric culture,
and results skyrocketed?
it’s possible at an always lead organization
In 1799, traveling to London over a vast expanse of the Yorkshire moors, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge gazed out his carriage window and saw in the distance an immense flock of starling sweep across the sky. “The starlings drove along like smoke…misty…without volition – now a circular area inclined in an arc – a globe, now…a complete orb into an ellipse…and still it expands and condenses, some moments glimmering…now thickening, deepening.” To Coleridge, the starlings represented an ever-shifting…force field…a powerful personality, both stimulating in its sense of freedom…and menacing in its sense of threatening chaos.” *
Perpetually unpredictable power, in perfect synchronicity.
This is an Always Lead organization.
* Whyte, David, The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America, 2002.
for team members
what if you could do your best work,
with the best people,
for the best compensation?
it’s possible at an always lead organization
