But does like-minded thinking always get the best results?

Businesses that are aligned, agreeable and enabling are often considered to be smooth-running and highly effective. 
But how progressive are they?
Every now and then, don’t you need someone to think differently, question decisions and take a different road?

In June 2016, Psychologist Chad Hartnell and his colleagues published an article in The Journal Of Applied Science called, “Do similarities or differences between CEO leadership and organizational culture have a more positive effect on firm performance?”

The results, in very general terms, for studies relating to ‘relationship focus’ and ‘task focus’, showed that a misalignment in core priorities produced better results.

This is about leadership qualities

When an affable team has an affable leader; where do their challenges come from?
When a driven, outcome focused team has a driven, outcome focused leader; does the team ever really learn anything new?

A leader should bring something more.
A leader should stimulate change.
A leader should encourage and empower individuality.

It’s less to do with goals, such as ethos implementation, and more to do with the journey of getting there. 
I’m not quite talking about the ‘opposites attract’ theory, or about inciting chaos to find re-order; but I am talking about injecting life back into business.

Being in a comfort zone doesn’t make champion athletes and it doesn’t make exceptional businesses either.
Learning should be a daily occurrence, and this is impossible if you already know it all.

So ask questions. Challenge. Play devil’s advocate. And see what happens.

Great minds do not always think alike.
But great minds do know how to get the best out of those around them.

Get the best from your team