Turning the world the right way up: disruptive ideas and strong leadership
I am a proud fellow of St George’s House, Windsor Castle. Last week I took part in a 24 hour conversation Disruptive Leadership:Your Way . It was a privilege to be part of the conversation with peers from across different sectors and disciplines with different perspectives, personalities and problems. We do all share one thing a common – a desire to be constantly reflective and constantly learning in pursuit of a goal: becoming bolder, better leaders. Most of us hear about the importance of disruptive leadership every day. Lots of us in the social sector have an internal voice saying we must be more entrepreneurial and more disruptive. But what does it really mean to be a disruptive leader? In advance of the conversation we each had a call with our (very excellent) facilitator for the conversation, Pete Ashby. As well as asking what we hoped to get out of the conversation Pete asked the question ‘what does disruptive leadership mean to you?’. The call happened on a