Leading in Times of Crisis: Navigating Through Complexity, Diversity, and Uncertainty to Save Your Business

OBSTACLES TO DEVELOPING WHOLE LEADERS

We find senior leaders are often confused about what kind of leadership is needed to grow the business and engage people. Most management systems in big companies have seen little true innovation in over a hundred years—since Henry Ford first introduced the assembly line and Frederick Taylor broke down management of people into measurable parts. The result is that most talent developers still view the process from a mechanistic perspective. Unfortunately, that leaves us with companies that are more like machines than organisms, and with talent systems and processes that are inherently more machine-like than organic. In trying to control and measure and fix every aspect of the development process, CEOs ...