Leadership is a subject that always interests me.   You can’t buy it and I don’t think it’s easy to build in someone either however the basic traits of leadership live inside many people and sometimes it’s just a matter of learning how to unlock it.     At Readify we have become pretty good at recognising people that have leadership traits and we hire almost exclusively people that have those traits.  Many of them don’t even know it themselves when they join us.   I don’t undervalue how hard it is to recognise these traits however I reckon the real trick is to figure out how to unlock leadership in your people.  

Of course there is no silver bullet but as an organisation you can do it – it does however take time and it does mean you have to invest.  It costs us PLENTY in time and dollars, and we wouldn’t do it if the returns were not plenty as well - but don’t expect the returns to just arrive in wads of cash.    The type of leadership I like to see encourages others to lead and as more of our staff learn the traits of great leaders, I’m seeing those around them learn as well.   I don’t think in a consulting company like ours you can have too many leaders because they all lead in different ways for different reasons.  I reckon I’d like to bottle what we have now.  As high maintenance as it can be sometimes -  it really works for us seeing our staff lead in technologies, business, community and citizenship!