The Underside of Command – Case Example of Leadership from Gettysburg

Decision-Making | Fictional Case | History | Leading Teams | Tools for Leaders | Trust The following case study is on decision-making that occurred during the Battle of Gettysburg and was written by the Founder of Leaders247, Gordon Whitehead. The case was developed...

Ralph Goes Looking or Stays Working

Business Leadership | Communicate | Delegating | Fictional Case | Leader-Follower | Leading Teams | Prioritizing A Fictional Case This fictional case illustrates two scenarios: (1) How a mismanaged 1-1 can contribute to strategic drift and employee disengagement, and...

Seven Red Lines – Doing the Impossible

Bad Boss | Delegating | Dumping Asked to Do the Impossible? You’re Not Alone. Have you ever been given a project to do that didn’t seem possible and yet you were the only one who knew it wasn’t possible? At Leaders247 we love this comedy sketch...

Why People Follow Leaders

Leader-Follower | Motivation | Vision People Choose You Subscription leadership is the millennial pattern – and it’s a good one. Like social media, where we choose who to follow and unfollow with a click, followers do the same with leaders. The upshot of this model is...

Lead People – Not Paper

Administrative | Leading Teams The Basic Question Every leader should ask themselves a basic question: “Do I care about people.” Let’s be honest – if the answer is no, then get out of the leadership business. But, if the answer is yes (which we hope is the case) then...

Reverse Delegation

Bad Boss | Delegating | Trust When Your Boss Doesn’t Delegate to You – Use Reverse Delegation When the boss doesn’t seem to be able to delegate, our advice is to be patient. When we have a boss who doesn’t seem to understand how to delegate the...

360 Transparency

Bad Boss | Delegating | Empowering | Trust A Story of Common Confusion Hello Grace, good morning. Good morning Ralph. Grace, I have something I need you to do – we have this new product hitting the market as you know. Marketing is pushing us to get the customer...