| Overview: Leaders can only remain in positions of real influence as long as they remain credible. Once they start to conform to predictable patterns of behaviour, some of their credibility disappears: they begin to act in systematic, repetitive and cautious ways. They start to prefer certainties to risks, conformance to change.
When this happens, leaders go back over the divide that separates them from managers. And when that happens, there may be no going back. |
