Wendy Lambourne on Legitimate Leadership

The Human Risk Podcast

What distinguishes a good leader from a bad one?
My guest on this episode, Wendy Lambourne is a proponent of Legitimate Leadership — the idea that to have real power, leaders need to have legitimacy. Not by dint of being appointed, but by the way in which they fulfil their role.
She believes that leaders stand or fall at the end of the day on the basis of their intent, or motive. Or to put it another way, whether they’re in the relationship to give to their people, or to get something out of them.
Since leadership is all about people leading other people, there’s lots of potential for human risk.
In our discussion we explore:
- how Wendy came to discover the idea of Legitkamte Leadership (LL);
- what LL means in practice;
- how leaders can manifest it;
- the difference between authority and power;
- what the implications are for businesses of adopting LL; and
- what Wendy has learned from teaching the framework to others.
To learn more about Legitimate Leadership see https://legitimateleadership.com/
To buy Wendy’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Wendy-Lambourne/e/B00CASM2C4?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_5&qid=1614152045&sr=8-5