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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, we feel desperate.
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 organisations) 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 April 2025 newsletter.
The Amplification of Best-Behaviour Culture Is A Leadership Imperative
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.
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Question Of The Month
By Wendy Lambourne, Director, Legitimate Leadership.
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, we feel desperate.
We are still bedazzled by the technology and impressed by the obvious utility of these devices. We are fixated on what these wonderful contraptions can do to help us manage our lives.
But a less obvious underlying utility of mobile devices lies in their potential to provide us with key insights into what is happening, not in our busy world, but in the world behind our eyeballs – in our inner realm. They are excellent barometers, in real time, of our intent. Read the full response by clicking here.
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Article: 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 organisations) 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 April 2025 newsletter.
Ian Munro: ‘In 2007 I was offered a professional opportunity that I had really wanted, and I had no hesitation in accepting. The opportunity was to move to the UK – to move my whole life from South Africa – and to consolidate a number of projects in the UK and Europe that the business I was then working for had. It was very exciting!
‘It was somewhat less exciting – in fact terrifying – in 2008 when I got on the plane a week after the financial crisis.
‘When I arrived at the London office on the first day, every one of our projects there had been put on hold – in other words, we had no revenue. In hindsight, though, I did have one thing that was incredibly fortunate.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE BY CLICKING HERE
Article: The Amplification of Best-Behaviour Culture Is A Leadership Imperative
From SKOR, a US-based culture measurement company.
COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE BY IAN MUNRO, 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 to do in practice than it might at first seem. It requires both generosity and courage. The latter in particular is frequently in short supply – even in seasoned leaders. Legitimate Leadership requires that leaders go beyond simply role-modelling or leading by example. Legitimate leaders not only walk the talk, they also demand that their people walk the talk. They go beyond simply being accountable. They hold others accountable too.
THE ARTICLE: Last week, I attended CultureCon, an awesome event centered around organizational culture. One particular slide from Eric Hutcherson, the Chief People & Inclusion officer at Universal Music Group, the keynote speaker, resonated deeply with me. It read:
The culture of any organization is shaped by the WORST behavior the leader is willing to TOLERATE.
The culture of any organization is shaped by the BEST behavior the leader is willing to AMPLIFY.
This insightful statement captures a simple yet critical truth: leaders are the custodians of culture. It is their daily choices—what they tolerate and what they celebrate—that define the boundaries and aspirations of the workplace environment. A further reason why SKOR assesses only Leaders, rather than individual contributors when it comes to assessing culture.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE BY CLICKING HERE
