In Leadership, INTENT Is Primary, But It Is Not Sufficient. Skills Are Important Too.

This article is inspired by two recent conversations. The first was with one of our consultants. He shared his frustration with leaders who, while clearly appreciating the need for dedicating time to hobbies if they want to see improvement, don’t appear to have the same insight when it comes to leadership. In short, if I...

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December 2024 – Question Of The Month

Question: How does a leader ‘win over’ his/her people, so that those people grant the leader the authority needed to be effective? Answer: The research on which the Legitimate Leadership framework is based, shows that most leaders approach the above challenge either through a process of compelling their people to carry out certain actions and...

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The Legitimate Leadership Model – Getting Started

In my experience the number of people who enthusiastically and fearlessly take theory and translate it into action is small. I am convinced that this is the case when it comes to legitimate leadership. I am also convinced that this doesn’t have to be so. “Application” is not some mysterious process out of the reach...

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November 2024 – Question Of The Month

Question: Is it fair for managers to simply classify their employees as “givers” and “takers”? Answer: As managers, it is tempting to divide employees into two groups: “givers” and “takers”. That is, those who take accountability and ownership and those who do not. We thank our lucky stars for the “givers” while we tear our hair...

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News Item: Meta Fires Personnel For Abuse Of Its $25 Meal Voucher Scheme

COMMENT ON THIS NEWS ITEM BY LEONIE VAN TONDER, SENIOR ASSOCIATE, LEGITIMATE LEADERSHIP: This one action of a famous, super-rich person just gave me a little hope for the future of leadership and values. Leaders are very visible and our expectations of behaviour from them are exactly the same as for everybody else, irrespective of...

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Podcast: Lead From The Heart – Preparing For The Launch In China Of The Legitimate Leadership In Action Book

Ahead of the launch in China of the Mandarin version of the book Legitimate Leadership In Action, Simon Zhou, Legitimate Leadership’s representative in China, visited Wendy Lambourne in Cape Town, South Africa, and recorded a podcast with her (link below). In the podcast, Wendy Lambourne, the book’s author, said that Legitimate Leadership is essentially a...

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News: Entelect Describes Its Coaching Culture-Change Journey

In the breakfast presentation in Johannesburg on 28 September 2023, Entelect described its own culture-change journey through the Legitimate Leadership framework, and particularly through coaching. This was in line with the finding, detailed at the breakfast, that what makes a manager bring out the best in someone correlates most highly with the manager being an...

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October 2024 – Question Of The Month

Question: How do leaders raise human excellence, according to Legitimate Leadership? Answer:Leaders, unlike managers, focus not on the achievement of results but on enabling excellence in their people. They do so because they know that sustainable organisational excellence is not possible with mediocre people. One way to enable excellence in people is to deliberately and...

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Cyberlogic’s Transformative Leadership Journey

We had an incredible morning at the Legitimate Leadership breakfast, where our CEO, Mark Tew, and People Operations Lead, Aminah Mobara, shared the story of Cyberlogic’s transformative leadership journey and how the Legitimate Leadership framework has redefined our leadership standards. Some key leadership takeaways from the breakfast: Leaders who develop clear standards create a culture...

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September 2024 – Question Of The Month

Question: Why, according to Legitimate Leadership, should big organisations strive to dismantle their internal bureaucracies? Answer: Bureaucracy has been described as ‘a tax on human accomplishment’. A major problem facing big organisations today is that they have a management model ‘that perpetuates a caste system of thinkers (managers) and doers (everyone else), that regards human beings as...

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In Leadership, INTENT Is Primary, But It Is Not Sufficient. Skills Are Important Too.

This article is inspired by two recent conversations. The first was with one of our consultants. He shared his frustration with leaders who, while clearly appreciating the need for dedicating time to hobbies if they want to see improvement, don’t appear to have the same insight when it comes to leadership. In short, if I...

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