The creative frame. Where does leadership end?

Find the tipping point to hand over full ownership. Your business needs your leadership, but maybe not in the way you thought.

Leadership is the base for everything that follows. It is inevitable that the product vision, responsibilities, methods and processes are clear to everyone at all times — only within this frame people can bundle their creativity and create something great.

Of cause this orchestration can have every level of complexity. As fast as you develop your business, your organization must transform as well. Business success will grow your teams, change responsibilities and structure permanently. A new technology will change your tech stacks, team skills, tools and workflows to commit to it. You will continuously improve your product life-cycle to keep your learning-curve high and add tests, user feedback, data and other channels into the loop. For some people this transformation process may be painful, for others it’s fluent. In other words: some need coaching, others not. You try to keep it simple and smooth, that this natural renewal process is fun and people can focus on work.

There is a tipping-point, where you don’t want to manage these processes anymore. If you have been successful, that time will come sooner than you expect. This is what most companies don’t get: there is a time where full ownership replaces leadership. Coaching replaces management. Cross-Communication breaks structures. Innovation comes from within. From the people who create it. Let these people own, take care and drive the innovations themself. When you proofed to be a good leader, people will want your support as a mentor. Expose your reason why — this is what leaders will follow. Guiding principles give a framework that can be adapted and developed further. You want people to make decisions and to take responsibility for them. Otherwise, how can you let go of the rudder?

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