Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.