The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.
Interpretation
Effective leadership involves sharing responsibility and empowering others throughout an organization.
In this quote, Frances Hesselbein emphasizes the importance of decentralized leadership, where a leader distributes authority and responsibility beyond their immediate sphere. This approach fosters a culture of collaboration and engagement, allowing individuals at all levels to contribute to the organization's success and unleash their full potential.
In practice
In a team meeting to inspire decentralized leadership.
When people are speaking, they require our undivided attention. We focus on them; we listen very carefully. We listen to the spoken words and the unspoken messages. This means looking directly at the person, eyes connected; we forget we have a watch, just focusing for that moment on that person.
It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.
Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.
The real leader redefines or defines the mission in a very powerful way so that people understand it; it permeates the organization.
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
Social-sector organizations have to be better managed than for-profit organizations... because they have no margin of error.
It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president's wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.
A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.
Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.
When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.
You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.
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