There is a logic to any persisting culture. A culture’s collection of beliefs and norms fits together in a meaningful way. For example, one system of leadership logic, which we call Dependent - Conformer, centres on the idea that a leader gives an order for someone else to carry out. This type of culture excludes non-official leaders from participating in the leadership collective. It leaves them and their potential waiting indefinitely to emerge.
What potential could you add by tapping the talent of unofficial leadership, allowing it to join and add value to the leadership culture? It’s often useful to think of leaders as including people whose titles may not suggest 'leader'. This idea of non-titled leaders and their potential for joining in and advancing leadership logics raises the question of how to think of and define what all kinds of leaders have in common. We believe that the best way to do this is to talk about outcomes.
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