What is a leaderful organisation®?

The leaderful organisation® is an alternative to the traditional 'leader-led' or leader'dependent model of organisations.

In a leaderful organisation®, every employee is developed to recognise their own and others' strengths and limitations, and prepared technically and psychologically, to step up to lead, or step back and support as needed, in support of organisation's mission, vision and values.

Ric Charlesworth, Australian representative hockey player, former politician and coach of the Australian women’s hockey team, talked about creating “leaderful teams”  - hearing him talk then following the success of the captain-less, leaderful, world dominating Ozzie women's hockey team; reading the academic literature/research on 'distributed leadership'; noticing Katzenbach & Smith's observation of the evolution of high performance teams from leader-led to shared leadership; conversations with officers in the Singapore military, and my own experiences and observations with teams in high performance mode... have contributed to my thinking on the importance of leadership and the risks of dependency on THE leaders.

PLEASE NOTE THAT:
The term leaderful organisation(s) is the registered trademark of The Corporate Soul P/L (Trademark #866318; 15 February 2001).

It may not be used without the explicit permission of the trademark owner.