Well, for starters, sexual harassment and assault by men in powerful leadership positions is not just a failure of their individual character and ethics; it’s a failure of the leadership models that empower them. But there are even broader leadership lessons to be gleaned from recent examples of the “all-powerful lone leader” model gone awry. From environmental nonprofits to mega-churches to transportation companies, this leadership model gets locked and loaded at the top of the house through a similar process. But each can take away something else from Revolution Foods’s partnership model, in which two equally powerful leaders with complementary strengths and roles are in charge. That is, the partnership model promotes integrative thinking: both leaders must constantly bring together diverse ideas and opinions and generate new, innovative solutions.

Source: Forbes January 12, 2018 02:37 UTC