Tony Morgan’s Leadership Continuum

Tony Morgan’s Leadership Continuum

Tony Morgan, the author of Killing Cockroaches and Other Scatter Musings On Leadership, has a useful paradigm for understanding the necessary shift in leadership styles as organizations change and grow.  His ideas are outlined here. Although Morgan focuses largely on...
Empowering Leaders: Hand Over Your Keys

Empowering Leaders: Hand Over Your Keys

No one likes a backseat driver. You know, the one who hands you the keys and then proceeds to nag you at every turn, correcting and directing you throughout the trip? Tony Morgan says if you are going to let someone drive, you also need to let them decide how to get...
Killing Cockroaches Tour

Killing Cockroaches Tour

Sometimes it seems easier to do the real work in our organizations ourselves. The time it takes to show someone else how to do something  — and the time required to follow up to make sure the task is done well — just doesn’t seem worth the payoff. Unless...