Inclusive leaders can’t rely on a single leadership style. They must be dexterous with a range of styles and behaviors to be able to engage a range of followers.
The strongest way to avoid subconsciously favoring any group of followers is to consciously reject the idea of groups.
Inclusive organizations will outperform exclusive ones, but inclusive leadership is hard work. Only those leaders who understand the reason why will be able to achieve their team’s best performance.
A new leader cannot develop if they don’t recognize, or aren’t shown, how their actions have affected another person. Failures are just as important as successes. Leader developers should provide the right opportunities for new leaders to fail while guarding against anything that might sink the ship.
There are powerful leadership lessons to be learned from the worst nuclear accident in history.