Why Leadership Development Programs Fail

COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE BY WENDY LAMBOURNE OF LEGITIMATE LEADERSHIP: We agree with the authors on all four of the common mistakes: Understanding Context. What is required of leaders (other than an intent to serve through the care and growth of direct reports) is tailoring Legitimate Leadership to their context. This is the reason for...

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Why Intent Matters

John C. Maxwell (an American author, speaker and pastor who primarily focuses on leadership) famously said: “Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.” We do not have to look far to see the far-reaching impact leadership decisions can have, for better or worse. I know, as I suspect most people do, the huge impact a...

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June 2025 – Question Of The Month

Question: How important is employee engagement for organisational performance? Answer: Legitimate Leadership believes that the most important criterion for sustained organisational performance is the degree to which the will of employees is engaged to go above and beyond in the pursuit of the organisation’s objectives. For people to contribute in the workplace, more important than...

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May 2025 – Question Of The Month

Question: How should a leader get feedback on how she is doing as a leader? Answer: Legitimate Leadership believes that if one truly wants to know how a leader is doing, the best judges are the very people who depend on that person for leadership. We incorporate this principle into our approach to transforming leaders by...

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The CEO Who Felt Liberated

An insurance business in South Africa, which still exists today, was initially owned by a European company. The European company pulled out of South Africa and sold the South African company to an international insurance company which had its head office in Toronto, Canada. A few months after the take-over, the relevant executive in Toronto...

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April 2025 – Question Of The Month

Question: Does Legitimate Leadership claim that application of its framework improves a company’s results? Answer: A Legitimate Leadership intervention impacts on employee contribution in an organisation. It does not lay claim to improved business performance, since business results can improve for all sorts of reasons extraneous to a transformation of the human side of an enterprise. At...

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Company Boards – It’s All About The Relationship, Stupid

In early March, Ian Munro and Wendy Lambourne, directors of Legitimate Leadership, made presentations on Legitimate Leadership’s approach to Building Strong Boards (or governing bodies of organizations) as part of a FluidRock online webinar on that subject. Below is a summary of Wendy Lambourne’s presentation. A summary of Ian Munro’s presentation appeared in our March...

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Company Boards – A Little Give Goes A Long Way

In early March, Ian Munro and Wendy Lambourne, directors of Legitimate Leadership, made presentations on Legitimate Leadership’s approach to Building Strong Boards (or governing bodies of organizations) as part of a FluidRock online webinar on that subject. Below is a summary of Ian Munro’s presentation. A summary of Wendy Lambourne’s presentation will appear in our...

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The Amplification of Best-Behaviour Culture Is A Leadership Imperative

COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE BY IAN MUNRO OF LEGITIMATE LEADERSHIP: At its core, this article is about accountability. Specifically, the article discusses amplifying positive behaviours and actions through celebration, recognition and reward; and confronting negative attitudes and behaviours clearly and fairly. This is entirely consistent with the Legitimate Leadership Model. It is also more difficult...

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March 2025 – Question Of The Month

Question: From a Legitimate Leadership perspective, what can our preoccupation with our cell phones show us? Answer: We are not only very connected, we are also very hooked. If we leave the devices at home for 24 hours, we feel that we have been excommunicated from society. When we are unable to check messages for 30 minutes,...

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Why Leadership Development Programs Fail

COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE BY WENDY LAMBOURNE OF LEGITIMATE LEADERSHIP: We agree with the authors on all four of the common mistakes: Understanding Context. What is required of leaders (other than an intent to serve through the care and growth of direct reports) is tailoring Legitimate Leadership to their context. This is the reason for...

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