Bill Gallagher argues that leaders and organizations are inseparable, and that you deserve the company you have. Organizational change starts with the leader taking personal accountability and working on themselves first.
What I've learned over time, painfully for myself as well as with our clients as a leader, is that the organization, the leader are like the front and the back of the hand. They move together, they're completely connected and yet they're two sides of the same thing. So the leader does something, it affects the organization. The organization does something, it affects the leader. You could say, and you'd be right on, that you deserve the company you have and you have the company you deserve. So if there's a problem going on, if there's something that you want to change in the organization, it's good news, bad news. It's definitely your fault the way that it is, right? It started with you, even if others contributed to it or whatever. But the good news is. And that's the bad news, right? The good news is that it's your fault, which is good news because you can work on you a lot easier than you can work on anyone or anything else you can work on you.
