Make the person aware that she’s using management, rather than leadership. People at Stage Three approach leadership as though it were a set of tasks they could check off their to-do list (e.g., “set the vision,” “get alignment,” and “listen with intention”). The moment leadership becomes cookie-cutter, it isn’t leadership at all—it’s management. By making the person aware that he’s behaving in a Stage Three fashion toward leadership, you might help him see that he isn’t a leader at all.
