*Top-Down Leadership Is Dead. Long Live the Power of Peers

The real engine of organizational performance has shifted. So, what can leaders do about it? 

For more than a century, we have organized work around a simple premise: leadership flows from the top down. Early in my career, I remember our executive leadership team retreating to The Greenbrier each year for a multi-day strategic planning session—an event where only the highest-paid, highest-ranked leaders were considered worthy to attend. The prevailing belief was clear: What do our employees know about strategy?

When they came down from the mountain, so to speak, and presented the tablets to the organization, I don’t ever recall employees being particularly impressed.

But back then, it didn’t matter what employees thought. They had no voice—until they did. Here's the CEOWORLD article (https://ceoworld.biz/2026/03/30/top-down-leadership-is-dead-long-live-the-power-of-peers/) and here's what DwAIne and JAIne have to say about it (https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/a544bd_dfd88df4b29c4e0695855671ef025680.mp3) What do you think? What are you experiencing?