'Leadingship – The disruptive innovation for thriving African organizations'

I agree with the need for high performing organizations in Africa (De Waal, 2017), and have been promoting sustainable, ethical, resilient, welcoming, growing, successful and context transforming organizations – to thrive.... [ view full abstract ]

I agree with the need for high performing organizations in Africa (De Waal, 2017), and have been promoting sustainable, ethical, resilient, welcoming, growing, successful and context transforming organizations – to thrive. Drawing on nature; by thriving I mean extraordinary whole organization wellness (Prinsloo, 2013, 2017). I relate thriving to De Waal’s delivering ‘..results that are exceedingly better than those of its peer group..’ (2017). In my experience organizational thriving is achievable through renewed organizational consideration and extraordinary leading. Such leading requires a new and integrated people influencing modality which shifts the accent from person (leader) to practice (leading), breaks properly with Africa’s colonial past that restricts thriving, and sheds West-is-best thought addictions in order to innovate better, more and faster. Considering the aforementioned in relation to various research and development insights; I believe that the disruptive innovation of leadingship, as the new people influencing modality, had already commenced (Prinsloo, 2013).