Hopefully, you have known one or two Garden Variety leaders in your day, and perhaps even more. This is often an individual situated at the periphery of the power-core. Their name gets on few of the initiatives, but they better every one of them. They may never get recognized by the highest tiers of the corporation, but they are uniformly esteemed by colleagues both “up” and “down” the ladder. They never throw their weight around, but everyone feels their influence. They are genuine, trustworthy, both capable and kind. Their agenda includes the corporate agenda, but it also includes you and the guy in the next cubicle.
You may at first take our use of the name “Garden Variety Leader” to infer commonality, but in fact Garden Variety Leaders are not common at all— they only appear to be because they walk among us.
The Garden Variety Leader has roots that sink deep into fertile soil. At Edaphica we believe that most attempts to lead fail to some degree either because they derive from false concepts of leadership and management or because their roots simply don't go deep enough.
Accordingly, we teach an entirely new model of “organic leadership,” a template for engendering true leadership sensibilities and capabilities in workers, managers, parents and other mentors. That groundbreaking, trademarked model is the
>> Edaphic Leadership Compass™.
