The How

The HOW: a conversation with greaterthan

Venturing beyond the conventional model of leadership – where the boss, the hero, and the visionary take center stage – we delve into a transformative paradigm shift towards a shared, democratized model of leadership. A model that empowers each individual, fostering a sense of collaborative culture, and promoting leadership development at every level. In this episode of The HOW, Susan Basterfield, Lyssa Adkins, and Francesca Pick take us on an enlightening journey exploring new practices and mindsets for leadership, exploring the power of distributed leadership, amplifying transparent communication and power sharing, ultimately transforming the way we perceive and enact leadership.

01:11 Susan Basterfield and Lyssa Adkins on Traditional Leadership
10:56 Francesca Pick on Leadership in the Self-Management Context
16:04 Beyond Positional Leadership
20:20 Leadership as a Verb
21:37 Distributing Leadership to Avoid Leader Exhaustion, Fatigue and Burnout
27:05 Followership is as Important as Leadership
30:16 Aversion to Leadership (the Ideology of Decentralization)
33:33 Leadership as a “Scarce” Resource
39:40 “Cut the bullshit: organizations with no hierarchy don’t exist”
40:10 What we Struggle with at Greaterthan
46:14 In our next episode: Size Matters

🔎 Learn more about distributing leadership and the reality of hierarchy: https://www.greaterthan.works/resources/organizations-without-hierarchy-dont-exist

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Gratitude!
🎤 Our lovely cohosts: Susan Basterfield, Francesca Pick and Lyssa Adkins
🎬 The production crew: Stefan Morales and Heather Cosidetto
📣 Communication guru: Anna Kopacz
🙏 Thank you to everyone in Greaterthan who helped fund the production of The How!!

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About the Author: lyssaadkins

I believe that Agile is a brilliant, emergent response to help us thrive in our ever-increasingly complex, changeable and interconnected world. My current focus is coaching Leadership Teams to take up the Agile transformation that is theirs to do -- on both a personal and group level. For many years I have been a passionate contributor to the discipline and profession of Agile Coaching and have trained many thousands of agilists in the knowledge, skills, and mindsets needed to coach teams and organizations to get full benefits of Agile. In 2010, I authored Coaching Agile Teams which has sold 75,000+ and been translated into 10 languages.