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Leadership is a conversation.

Boris Groysberg1, Michael Slind

  • 1Harvard Business School, USA.

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Leaders can enhance operational flexibility, employee engagement, and strategic alignment by fostering organizational conversation. This approach emphasizes dialogue, inclusion, and intentionality over traditional command-and-control methods.

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Area of Science:

  • Business Management
  • Organizational Communication
  • Leadership Studies

Background:

  • Command-and-control management and traditional corporate communication are less effective due to globalization and new technologies.
  • A research project explored alternative leadership and communication strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how leaders can improve operational flexibility, employee engagement, and strategic alignment.
  • To identify key elements of effective organizational conversation.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of a research project focusing on leadership communication strategies.
  • Identification and definition of four core elements of organizational conversation: intimacy, interactivity, inclusion, and intentionality.

Main Results:

  • Organizational conversation, characterized by dialogue and a less formal tone, promotes a bottom-up exchange of ideas.
  • Inclusion empowers employees as active conversation partners, content creators, and brand ambassadors.
  • Interactivity shifts from monologue to dialogue, utilizing social media and social thinking.
  • Intentionality facilitates strategic action derived from discussions and debates.

Conclusions:

  • Shifting from top-down directives to open organizational conversation enhances business outcomes.
  • The four elements—intimacy, interactivity, inclusion, and intentionality—are crucial for effective modern leadership communication.
  • Embracing dialogue and employee participation leads to greater strategic alignment and operational agility.