Redefine Leadership: Short Takes

In this Short Take, I discuss Blueprint for Revolution by Srdja Popovic. This is a comprehensive, insightful analysis of the story of vision from a functional leadership model that is useful to any leader. My Blueprint for Revolution summary includes several aspects of how we successfully tell a leadership vision to bring out the best in others.

This was supposed to be a review of The Benevolent Dictator by Dr. Justin Hamrick, but it brought my distaste for the failures of traditional leadership development. Hold on to your hats.

Vision is powerful, but we feel pain when we lose sight of it. This is true for members of the group and for us as leaders. In this episode, we talk about how the function of vision explains and allows us to move past this loneliness.

ReDefine's first REVIEWED Short Take explores an ambitious but ultimately disappointing work. (Siobhan McHale's The Insider's Guide to Culture Change. HarperCollins Leadership, 2020.)

The concept of a leaderless group illustrates the fundamental concept of functional leadership, and it gives us a powerful exercise to understand and succeed at our role as leaders.

And what we use instead.

Every leader learns, but learning unconsciously limits our potential. This is why a process is better, and what tools you need to get started.

The Basics has been factual and dry. Here's why we at Redefine do what we do, and what it means to you.

Nobody is born a leader. Everyone learns through the same process. Learn how to build a leadership practice, and some of the tools that Redefine uses to make this process more effective and less uncomfortable.

Interactions over time become relationships. Relationships, or how work is performed in a group, determine the degree of success that the group can achieve. Learn how to see and influence relationships. Check out www.thedefinitionofleadership.com for more.