Leading with a team, leading with other leaders.  And that is the ultimate in leadership, in effectiveness, in peak performance, and in being on the cutting edge of learning, growth, and development.

 

Old fashion leadership that transcended the centuries from long before the modern calendar and all the way up through the 19th century was military leadership, ‘command and control leadership’, dictatorship, tyranny.  But none of that works very well any longer.  Today people don’t want to be bossed-around, they want to be led.  They don’t want to be ordered, commanded, forced, threatened— they want a true leader who hears them, responds to them, is real, is congruent, is competent, is ethical, communicates, and presents an inspirational vision about what’s possible.

 

And that kind of leadership takes a team.  It requires a leadership team which includes all of the diverse knowledge and skills which are required to achieve our mutual visions of the future.  This is what Collaborative Leadership is all about.