Julia Middleton's Thoughts on Leadership

I attended a revolt recently. Many many middle managers were being asked to think different, stretch, lift, work together, jump fences, go the extra mile. And not a single senior manager was there to do it with them. This was an organisation that must adapt or die, there was not just a burning platform, it was burning and sinking and blowing up all at the same time. And the senior managers knew what it was going to take of management. Just they hadn’t, it seemed, planned to do anything themselves. Or maybe they had, just that they didn’t tell or show anyone. In the modern day though the difference is irrelevant.