Leadership without ego - Isaac Getz

During the Talentis Annual Coaches Congress, we had the pleasure of welcoming Isaac Getz to talk to us about the concept of the “Leader without ego”. This concept was developed in his latest book “Leadership Without Ego” co-written with Bob Davids and Brian M. Carney.‍

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#1 What is “leadership without ego”?

Issac Getz : “It means subordinating yourself to the employee with the lowest responsibility in a company.”

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#2 Is it a necessity for businesses to have leaders without ego within them?

Isaac Getz : “Having employees who want to go to work in the morning is a necessity today, but it has always been. Go there, not because they have to, but because they want to. The objective is to ensure that as many employees as possible have this state of mind. To no longer have a collaborator who will answer the question “How are you? ”: “Like a Monday” .No longer have employees who come to work to do the minimum trade union.There are not many businesses that can, say, without saying prosper, but simply survive with such a low level of commitment.It must be understood that there is a direct link between the nature of the leader and the leadership of a company, and this commitment.Just because there is someone who bears a title such as CEO or CEO, etc., that he will automatically be a leader and that people will want to follow him. Certainly , they will obey because from behind, there is what is called the carrot and the stick effect, but they basically do not want to. When people are in this position, they are doing the union minimum somewhere. They are not going to entrust you with the leadership role that they want to follow and thus give the best of themselves. It is up to each company to decide whether or not it will be a necessity for them.”

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#3 Is exercising “egoless leadership” something innate?

Isaac Getz : “Yes indeed I would say that egoless leadership is present in some leaders without them needing to work on this subject. It is present through education very often, through personal or family history.Experience shows, however, that the majority of leaders still need coaching, executive coaching to work on their posture, on their ego, on letting go. Then, there are some severe cases that I know of a certain number of bosses who need to do a psychoanalysis.”

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#4 What is the status of the liberated company today?

Isaac Getz : “In the 10 years that I have been developing this concept, I can say that things have moved in the sense that, at the time when I started studying these businesses (2009), they were marginal cases. In France, the United States and elsewhere. Today, these are no longer marginal cases. They are not the majority of course, but we are now talking about hundreds of companies that have adopted this concept of liberated enterprise.We can no longer talk about marginality, when companies like Michelin (around sixty large factories concerned), companies like Decathlon, companies like Decathlon, entities at Airbus, entities at Airbus, entities at Airbus, entities at Airbus, entities at Airbus, Social Security funds, Social Security funds, municipalities, public housing offices, etc., have embarked on this.So we can say today that it is a major movement.Some say, in any case an investigation has shown, that “the company liberated” is one of the most important management methods for French managers.So, I think we can say that this movement is under way, that the liberation of companies is in progress. In other words, the pace of change will accelerate and develop even more, that this will affect more and more companies, that this will concern more and more companies until reaching the majority of them, difficult to be a prophet.” [

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