Power-sharing the key to organisational change

Keith De La Rue:

This is where John Smythe’s work has focused.  Working with McKinsey, he researched 59 organisations globally, looking for the “single, most influential cause of more engaged employees.”  He concluded that this was “the appetite and ability of leaders at every level to engage their subordinates in everyday decision making and bigger-ticket change.”

This requires all managers to effectively share their power.  This is not something that is easy or natural for a command-and-control manager!  Nor is it something that we are teaching managers to do.  It means admitting that you actually don’t know all the answers.