Making the invisible visible…

Leadership in view — seeing it and getting better at it.

If You Can’t See It, That Doesn’t Mean it Isn’t There…

Youngest son, currently finishing his degree at home in his attic bedroom, was keen to talk through a chapter of his dissertation on institutional memory. Sometimes he likes to articulate the work he’s doing, talk, and make sense of it out loud… I always find him interesting and I’m happy to listen.

‘It’s not a ‘thing’,’ he told me, but I have identified, and I’m describing three effects of it and how they change over the period.’

I almost laughed, actually, because it’s exactly the language I might use with someone who comes to talk about leadership…

…just because we can’t see something doesn’t mean it isn’t there to be described.

It was the perfect analogy for everything we talk about when we talk about leadership, or any of those things in organisations-collaboration, connection, innovation…

Making the Invisible Visible (it’s your job!)

There’s rarely, if ever a thing we can see called ‘leadership’; we can’t describe its physical form, you couldn’t tell me its shape, how many angles it has, how much it weighs or the its chemical formula…