Creating conditions by bringing experts and those with diverse talents and perspectives together can cultivate a company’s challenge-driven leadership — a distinctive kind of ‘no-leader leadership.’
“If you want to foster challenge-driven leadership, you can’t treat people purely as “human resources,” placed by budget allocation into any spot that will have them, and motivated with incentives to take on work that does not intrinsically interest them. An effective challenge-driven talent strategy focuses on spotting the right people for a project and attracting them to it, rather than on motivating and developing people you have been handed through a budget allocation process.”
Challenge-driven leadership is made for pushing boundaries, and in the end it consistently produces results.
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