The Leading Through Blog

3 Lessons Learned   Kim Clark, Co-founder and Chairman In this season of Thanksgiving, I want to share with you three important lessons I have learned about the power of gratitude in the work of leadership. They were hard to learn and I am all the more grateful for them.    Lesson #1: Gratitude is the Great Antidote to Pride   The work of leadership is all about mobilizing people to act, learn, and change in ways that help them thrive and create a thriving organization. In t

What Leadership Actually IS David Moss, Co-Founder, Partner New rule: you can’t do that!    The human default mode for leadership is whoever holds the power is the “leader” and what they do is considered “leadership”. I see it when kids self-organize a playground game and then usurp the authority to make the rules and dominate the game, so they win. I see it play out at various companies around the world as those in positions of authority exercise power to get compliance and

Leadership has never stopped being important—but how we lead now will define what comes next. Erin Clark, President and Co-founder LTI “ This is the moment for a reinvention of leadership—one rooted not in power over people, but in partnership with people. Leading Through. Together."  I had a rare opportunity to interview the CEO, of a fortune 500 company, during the design phase of a new leadership development program. His frustration was palpable, and justified. His organiz

An Overview of the article titled - Shift Your Leadership from Power Over to Leading Through, published by the Harvard Business Review.

An overview of an article written by Andrew M. Carton, Jonathan R. Clark and others; published in 2014 by the Academy of Management Journal.

The article discusses how leaders can effectively communicate organizational purpose through language.

Written by Authors:  Alex C. Lewis and Jonathan R. Clark and published in 2020 in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, this research...

An overview of research introducing modularity as a design principle that fosters flexibility & innovation, published in 2000 by MIT Press.