Month: April 2013

Bobble head leaders don’t say what they really think. They go with the flow to get ahead. Bobble heads don’t speak their mind they defend the company line.

Leaders become bobble heads to protect position and get promoted. It’s dishonest and disingenuous. Look around. How many bobbing heads sit at the table? Is anyone disruptive?

Bobble-head organizations:

1. Lose creative contributions.
2. Make lousy, status quo decisions and complain about status quo results.
3. Reflect fear based cultures.

The reason you don’t speak your mind:

1. Untrustworthy team mates who use your ideas against you.
2. Organizational culture that celebrates going along to get along – “Yes cultures.”
3. Fear of being ridiculed for being wrong.

Good girls and boys go along and get stars on their report cards. Bad girls and boys – disruptors, dissenters, and the unorthodox – go to detention.

Fault:

Top leadership is fully to blame for bobble-heading. Rather than punish bobble…