Lessons - Why Command & Control Is Dead | Stephen M.R. Covey - Speed of Trust Author
Success Story with Scott D. Clary
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In this lesson's episode, explore why leadership is moving beyond command and control in today's workplace. |
| 0:05.3 | Discover why trust, without inspiration, limits performance, |
| 0:08.3 | understand how purpose-driven leadership fuels deeper engagement, |
| 0:10.9 | and uncover how inspired cultures unlock higher commitment and lasting impact. |
| 0:27.6 | I think that what you're trying to solve for are the most difficult things to solve for in leadership. And if we look at one of the points that you make, you've spoken about it on past podcast in your book as well, |
| 0:33.6 | we're migrating from this traditional command and control model, which actually, |
| 0:38.4 | it's unfortunate, but when you're in a command and control model, you don't actually need a ton of |
| 0:43.2 | trust because people are just, you say, do this and they say yes. And you say do that. They say yes. |
| 0:49.0 | So there may be internally, they don't trust your decisions, but ultimately they're still going to do what you're telling them to do, which is not, again, this is not a sustainable business model. |
| 0:59.3 | We see it more and more. |
| 1:00.5 | So if we look at the future of, well, first, I'd actually just like to get your opinion on where leadership actually lies right now to date. |
| 1:08.8 | In 2022, what are the observations that you see about businesses? |
| 1:12.9 | Do you still see businesses trying to succeed with a traditional command and control model? |
| 1:17.7 | Or do you see that being a business strategy and a leadership strategy that is going away very |
| 1:23.7 | quickly? |
| 1:25.0 | Both. |
| 1:26.0 | It's still, in spite of all our progress, we are still trapped a bit in the old command and |
| 1:33.5 | control model. |
| 1:34.3 | We become better at it, though. |
| 1:36.5 | More sophisticated, more advanced. |
| 1:38.5 | I call it enlightened command and control. |
| 1:41.4 | So it's a lot better version of it. |
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