Several years ago one of the departments in our organization had launched an initiative that had quickly grown well beyond the scope of that one department. It now was a part of virtually every aspect of the organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n But with this growth it was now realized that the department who launched it, and that department\u2019s leader, were now merely one part of a much larger whole.<\/strong><\/p>\n And when the initiative inevitably began to flounder, a leadership meeting was called where\u00a0a necessary, insightful question was raised;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The answer to that question would come by delving in to 3 crucial leadership principles. And these are three pretty good principles\u00a0that can bring clarity to your own leadership too.<\/strong><\/p>\n To figure out who should be leading this initiative the first thing\u00a0we looked for was \u201cWho really owns this?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWho lives and breathes these results? Who lies awake thinking about this? Who kicks over trash cans when this initiative isn\u2019t going well?\u201d<\/p>\n Those are signs of ownership.<\/p>\n And the person who has the highest level of ownership needs to be calling the shots.<\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t matter what the organization chart says. It doesn\u2019t matter what the business cards say.<\/p>\n Just because an initiative happens to fall within someone\u2019s job description doesn\u2019t make that person the best leader.<\/p>\n If there\u2019s just no ownership, there\u2019s just no leadership.<\/p>\n Ownership and leadership are inextricably linked. Want to raise your level of leadership? Raise the level of your ownership.<\/p>\n As our team examined these principles, it eventually became clear where the leadership needed to reside. It was with the team, and the leader, who had the biggest ownership stake. Once this was settled, momentum was restored.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the point. When you look at the things you believe you\u2019ve been called upon to lead, ask yourself, \u201cDo I really have a sense of ownership over this?\u201d<\/p>\n If the answer is \u201cNot really,\u201d take the high road and find out where that level of ownership really does sit.<\/p>\n Chances are, that\u2019s where the real leadership is sitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More leadership initiatives have failed over a lack of ownership than over a lack of talent. To lead effectively, ownership is the ball game. Several years ago one of the departments in our organization had launched an initiative that had quickly grown well beyond the scope of that one department. It now was a part…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1018,738,478,7,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decisions","category-effectiveness-2","category-featured","category-leadership","category-team-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6622,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions\/6622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u201cSo, who\u2019s leading this thing, anyways?\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n
If you lead it, you need to own it.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
If you don\u2019t own it, you can\u2019t lead it.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The higher your ownership, the higher your leadership<\/strong><\/h2>\n