Most Leaders Are Operating Without a Clear Standard
Ask five leaders what "good leadership" looks like and you'll get five different answers. That inconsistency is where performance breaks down.
Interview your leadership team about what good looks like at the manager level. Listen to five completely different answers.
That's the problem. Without a shared standard, leadership becomes person-dependent. Performance varies randomly. There's no consistency.
The Standard Problem
When there's no defined standard, promotion becomes subjective. Development is ad hoc. Accountability is fuzzy. Everyone interprets their role differently.
The Fix
Define what good looks like at each leadership level. Make it explicit. Teach it. Measure against it. Make it the standard, not the exception. A clear standard makes everything else possible: development, accountability, consistency.