Enlightened Rebels recognize the need to question some of the long-accepted notions around leadership that are no longer relevant. They find better ways to lead and create inspired workplaces.

Management is the business equivalent of the Titanic. Let’s figure out how to do it differently. What if we decided people are adults and can be smart and motivated, and if given the opportunity, a team of people TOGETHER could actually design better jobs, better metrics, better processes, and better division of labor than any one boss/manager/genius/hero ever could?

According to Jesse Lyn Stoner from the Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership, to successfully face today’s challenges, leaders need to pay attention to ten provocative truths.

Leadership can exist everywhere and anywhere. It's not associated with a position. Leaders are people who help us to change. They sometimes are those who occupy positions of power, but often they are not. Facilitative leadership is an attitude that anyone can practice.

Employees in high-trust organizations are more productive, have more energy at work, collaborate better with their colleagues, and stay with their employers longer than people working at low-trust companies. They also suffer less chronic stress and are happier with their lives, and these factors fuel stronger performance.

Many of us sense that the current way we run organizations has been stretched to its limits and we are increasingly disillusioned by organizational life. Frederic Laloux suggests that another, more soulful organizational model may be just around the corner.

Liberating Structures are simple processes that make it possible to include and engage every voice in shaping the future. The 33 individual practices are powerful tools for facilitative leaders and, best of all, no expert training is required!