Book: Turn The Ship Around - Top Down Leadership Attribution

These are notes I am making from Turn The Ship Around - the start of this series is here.

In chapter 2 - the author discusses success and failure modes of top down leadership style.

Top down leadership here refers to the leader making all the decisions and everyone under the leader “follow along” - leader-follower: the leader decides, the followers execute.

In this leadership style - the leader is the essential person. Without the leader, the organization falls apart.

The organization attributes success and failure to the leader - because they make all the decisions.

This is not a problem during the leader is part of the organization. What about after the leader leaves? What is the expectation of the organization?

The book shares how to become a leader, even when you are the lowest person in the organization