Once a leader always a leader; well maybe not David Kovacovich writes that, "Every organization reaches a tipping point. That point when your vision becomes a company, later an organization, and at some point a corporation. As companies grow the vision gets further from reality and process takes over. We lose site of our purpose for waking up in the morning and punch the clock. Every executive in every company knows how to deliver his/her message. The question is at what point do they stop believing the message? If the top executive does not believe, their employees will not either, and their customers will realize that the dream has become a commodity. Then it’s work: clock punching, reporting……….and nothing more! The CEO may never even realize the point at which his/her dream died."
I have observed this in leaders and have seen the diminishing effects on the organization as a whole. It can be caused in part by the Peter Princple when the organization outgrows the strength of the man or woman in charge of it. "The Peter Principle states that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence", meaning that employees tend to be promoted until they reach a position at which they cannot work competently. It was formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle, a humorous [1] treatise which also introduced the "salutary science of hierarchiology." [read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle]
I believe that the same thing can happen not by promotions but by the organization outgrowing the "leader."
For the full article by Kovacovich go to:
http://www.leadersbeacon.com/oversight-a-tale-of-leaderhsip-lost/
Serving Others, Ray Ivey
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