Susan DrummCEO Advisor & Executive Coach | Leadership Change Agent

The #1 Leadership Skill You’re Ignoring

9 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Susan Drumm argues that the core of effective leadership is the ability to both recognize recurring patterns and intentionally disrupt those patterns when they no longer serve the organization. She warns that change is accelerating and organizations that cannot adapt quickly enough risk being overwhelmed ("snowed under"), a problem especially common in large, less-agile organizations.

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The One of the things that is a tenant in our work is that effective leadership is generated from pattern recognition and pattern disruption. Got to see the patterns that we get stuck in that are no longer serving us because of what you articulated. Change is happening at a faster and faster rate. And if we can't adapt as quickly as change is happening in the external world, we get think of it like an avalanche, we get snowed under. And that's what I see happening in many organizations today, particularly the bigger ones, because they're not equipped to be agile enough to change.