It is hard to go five minutes in America today and not hear about the need for better leaders. Most organizations are consistently messaging how they will help you become a better leader, and the word management has become the anti-thesis to leadership. Yet to lead anyone other than yourself you actually need someone else to commit to following you.  On that topic we have read, seen, or heard very little. Why is this?  Should you care about it? How might it benefit you to be able to follow and lead as the situation fits?

The lack of attention with following might be tied to the.....

​All of us have a conversation or two that we have held off having because the cost benefit analysis did not add up in our mind.  Any group of people who assemble will eventually have a misalignment of goals and conflict and emotion will enter the room. It is at this moment that our graveyard grows, or we address the issue and move forward more equipped to tackle the next conflict as a unit. Think about your own graveyard at work or at home, is yours bursting at the seams? Recently the team at Vital Smarts shared a video where they declared the health of an organization could be