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In an era where initiative and innovation are what we prize most, leadership is the opposite of what many of us think it is: Telling people what to do. The true leader’s job is to help everyone around them do their job better.
It’s about letting go of an “I-know-best” perspective and instead giving your team all of the agency and information they need to take responsibility into their own hands and act.
creatives are uniquely suited to lead in this time of rapid change.
BEING A SERVANT LEADER, NOT AN EAGER LEADER
TRANSPARENCY AS A CATALYST
most essential ingredients for innovation and collaboration—the lifeblood of twenty-first-century businesses.
1. Transparency breeds trust, and trust is the foundation of great teamwork.
2. Sharing all information is essential to innovation.
4. Transparency leads to fairness and responsibility.
5. Transparency allows you to gain invaluable feedback.
One of the hardest parts of transparency is to share the “why” behind your decisions with the knowledge that others will see this and may criticize you. Putting it all out there can be scary, but it’s also hugely rewarding. Team members will weigh in with their ideas for how to improve all aspects of the business.
a few simple practices you can easily experiment with:
Share some e-mail conversations company-wide.
Take an internal monthly or quarterly report and make it public.
Share meeting notes and slide decks with everyone.
Every idea that matters hits the market too soon. While you’re busy practicing and preparing, you’re also hiding from the market, keeping your worthy and world-changing idea from the rest of us.
