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LEADERS

BY DR. BRECK ENGLAND

LEADING LEADERS:
TRAINING FOR THE NEW REALITY
OF LEADERSHIP
Dr. Stephen R. Covey used to ask his audience how many would

agree that the typical organization doesn't even begin to tap the
leadership capability of its people. Nearly every hand would go up.
This admission is the result of a paradigm of leadership that divides
the world into a few leaders and many followers, and explains why
the focus of leadership training is a small elite.

FAVI is a new kind of organization where everyone is expected to
step up and lead. Managers see themselves as "leaders of leaders,"
and their job is to ensure the success of other leaders. In Zobrist's
company of 600 workers, everyone has a leadership role that is
often self-designed.
When everyone is a leader, everyone is responsible for results.

But the world we live in now demands that everyone develop the
qualities of leadership: initiative, resourcefulness, vision, drive,
empathy and creativity, among others. We can't afford to cultivate
these qualities in only a few "high potentials."
"Leadership is a choice, not a position," said Dr. Covey, who believed
all people have the potential to be leaders and influence others in
positive ways to achieve lasting results. Leadership is a primary trait
of every human being, the kind of leadership that equates to unique
contribution. By contrast, the trappings of leadership (e.g., position,
popularity, public image) are secondary. A CEO is no more likely
to be a leader than anyone else. Formal authority is not the same
thing as leadership, which is actually a matter of moral authority
and unique competency.
"Most companies divide people into leaders and workers," says
Jean-François Zobrist, former head of the highly successful French
manufacturer, FAVI. "They assume every oarsman on the boat
needs someone with a whip to keep him at the oars. So you have
oarsmen rowing very fast, but the boat is slow because it has to
carry the weight of all those whippers. This assumption is not only
counterproductive, it's profoundly unfair. Everybody's a leader."
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"I am not responsible," said Zobrist. "You are responsible to the
client and to each other. So you need to lead out. You need to make
the decisions. You are the leaders here."
As a result, performance soared. All of the political energy and time
wasted trying to please the bosses went into pleasing the client.
FAVI is one of a growing number of thriving companies where
leadership is for everyone. Virtually all decisions in the organizations
are made by work teams in consultation with each other, where
before they had been constrained by their place in the hierarchy.
"A company of 500 individuals thus has, not one but 500 CEOs,
any one of whom might have a breakthrough idea and be able
to implement it, a true self-management move that is one of the
major reasons for the astonishing success of so many of these
organizations," notes one observer.
The idea that everyone is a leader is more than a mild paradigm shift.
It's actually shocking to go inside these organizations and realize
that no one is giving direction because everyone is self-directed.



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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition

Perspectives on Leadership
Table of Contents
Infographic
A Leader's Guide to Influence
Frontline Managers as Leaders
Employee Engagement for a Distributed Workforce
Accelerating Leadership Development
Employee Engagement for a Distributed Workforce
Leaders Leading Leaders
Are You Creating a Training Course of Designing a Learning Experience
Developing Mid-Level Leaders
The Magic of Asking for Feedback
Leadership Development vs. Employee Engagement
Leading at a Higher Level
Competencies as We Know Them are Dead
Building Great Leadership Through Continuous Learning
Maximizing the ROI of e-Learning
The Difference between Leadership Development and Leadership Formation
What's Online
Company News
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Cover1
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Cover2
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Perspectives on Leadership
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Table of Contents
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 5
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Infographic
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 7
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - A Leader's Guide to Influence
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 9
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Frontline Managers as Leaders
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 11
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Employee Engagement for a Distributed Workforce
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 13
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Accelerating Leadership Development
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Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 16
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 17
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Employee Engagement for a Distributed Workforce
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 19
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Leaders Leading Leaders
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 21
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Are You Creating a Training Course of Designing a Learning Experience
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Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 24
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 25
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Developing Mid-Level Leaders
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 27
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - The Magic of Asking for Feedback
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 29
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Leadership Development vs. Employee Engagement
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 31
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Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 33
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Leading at a Higher Level
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 35
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Competencies as We Know Them are Dead
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - 37
Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Building Great Leadership Through Continuous Learning
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Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - Maximizing the ROI of e-Learning
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Training Industry Magazine - Leadership 2015 Special Edition - The Difference between Leadership Development and Leadership Formation
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