We need far more courageous leaders

I walked away from a client meeting today filled with the overwhelming conviction that we need far more courageous existing leaders and until we have them, we need to realise that behavioural change within organisations is always going to be a mere ‘tinkering at the edges’.
We need existing leaders to step into a place of complete vulnerability where they are prepared to be challenged and most definitely prepared to change. And in my experiences to date I have far too little evidence of this happening. The even more frightening thing is that the more research I do on fear, the more I wonder how we can truly encourage more existing leaders to work constructively with their fear and jump into this place of complete vulnerability – where they do not have control and they do not have the solutions.
In these turbulent economic times we are seeing more and more existing leaders clinging to the Downward Spiral of Fear (link to previous newsletter) to protect, to comply, to regulate and to control. What we really need are leaders who are prepared to climb the Upward Spiral of Courage – to embrace vulnerability, to want their thinking challenged and to come to issues with creativity and an abundance mentality! We so desperately need our existing leaders to be courageous!!!!