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Leadership Thought: Ordering Steak Whilst Working With Vegetables

February 26, 2010 Keith Coats General, Leadership No Comments

Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Britain, made no secret of her contempt for those who couldn’t keep pace with her legendary endurance and appetite for hard work. This was especially poignant given that those who surrounded her were men. There is a joke about her going out to dinner with her cabinet. “Steak or fish” inquires the waiter. “Steak of course,” she replies. “And for your vegetables?” “They’ll have steak as well” came the snappy reply. Many leaders pride themselves on their toughness and ability to get satisfactory performance from the vegetables that surround them. With this goes a silent self-congratulatory pat on the back on their tolerance for the vegetable stew that surrounds them.

Invitational Leadership invites leaders to believe the best in others and then create an environment that is able to invite this potential out into the open. It takes hard work and an unshakable belief that others have a worthwhile contribution to make. Without this starting point, Invitational Leadership cannot be practiced.  New frameworks are needed from which to explore what it will take to lead successfully in the new world of work. Invitational leadership offers one such framework.

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