Stemmculture: Cultivating Leaders

despite the millions of books & articles written by experts, it keeps getting tougher and tougher to be an effective leader. it is harder to predict markets, find the right people, keep them engaged & deal with the implications of emerging technologies & constant change. you have to deal with murky systemic problems with no easy answers. history, in the form of corporate failures, soaring costs & stressed, unproductive employees has shown us that progress on these problems doesn’t only come from the executive suite. it requires the involvement of people throughout your organisation. can you think of (m)any organisations you know that are really performing well - profitable places where employees are engaged & innovative & making a positive contribution to the world? if you can, then rather than providing solutions, their leaders will be good at asking tough questions & leveraging employees’ collective intelligence. instead of maintaining things, they will be challenging the way the org