People learn to lead poorly in the same manner they learn to lead well. And they get better at leading poorly.

Leadership allows us to change other's behavior. When we lack leadership, we use power to force others to behave in the way that we want.

This SEEING EXERCISE reveals the natural, ongoing, and distributed functions without leadership's intervention.

This SEEING EXERCISE reveals the breadth of the functions of leadership in our past successes.

In each of the past articles in The Basics, we have explored how the functions define the amount of success that a group can have. We...

Welcome back to The Basics. Check out the posters for the function of learning here. Learning is the beginning of the definition:...

Welcome back to The Basics. Check out the posters for the function of relationships here. The second function in the definition is the...

Welcome back to The Basics. Check out the posters for vision here. The first function of leadership is vision. In the definition of...

Welcome to The Basics. Check out the poster for this section here: Our goal here is to introduce the functions of leadership, explain why...

Pre-print copies of Redefining Leadership arrived... We are taking preorders now. The book will ship on August 1st. Over the next several...

I often use a metaphor of motion to explain the connections between vision, relationships, and learning. The goal of the leader is to...

You just finished this book. You are probably thinking, what did I just read? This makes no sense. Here is what will happen. You will go...

Someone performs a specific function wrong. So, the business wastes several hundred dollars of materials. That is a big deal for this...

This sounds crazy, but we aren’t born knowing anything about leadership. Go ahead and argue with me about nature vs. nurture and all of...

There is one additional thing that leadership is not. It’s a “T” word as well, but it’s a bit different that the other three. This is...

Learning occurs only when a person changes his or her behavior. That's the end goal, the only measurement that matters. So what does that...

Mistakes happen, and we’re often told that the most important thing is how we respond when they do. However, there’s something we need to...

What do you actually see in the real world when someone is “doing” leadership? It looks a group of people performing tasks together. That...

(TACTICS is the fourth article in our series about the three Ts. If you haven’t read the series introduction or about TITLE or TRAITS,...

(TRAITS is the third article in our series about the three Ts. If you haven’t read the introduction or about TITLE, the first T, you...