Flip the Leadership Pyramid, and Reap Organizational Rewards

In an online article for Industry Week Leader Health and Safety industry leader Scott Gaddis describes how he learned the lesson of the inverted pyramid leadership approach and how it allows leaders to leverage the “power of we.”

What I came to understand later was that this thinking was not necessarily a new concept or even how the company was changing its organizational structure, but how I was expected to personally perform in my job as a leader in the organization. His role, he elaborated, was “to coach and mentor and remove the barriers” from my path so that I could be successful, as well as everyone else who had a circle. Why? Because, he said, “the most important people in our manufacturing organization were the ones that actually made something.” He was telling me to work more like him.

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Leaders with this view believe that workers have both present and future value. Leaders consider it their responsibility to nurture others toward achieving their full potential because they understand that it also delivers value and profit to the organization, or in my case, delivered them back home to their families, safe and healthy and protected our natural resources. It’s simple; this style of leadership fosters a sense of organizational interdependence.

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