59. Command and Control Leadership

09/20/21 • 0 min

Rex Buckingham is a self-proclaimed old-style leader. With his vast amount of corporate experience, he is able to help guide people to change the way they think and speak in order to change difficult situations. These changes can of course be applied in work situations but they are also powerful tools to use in personal relationships.

In today’s episode, Rex shares a bit about where he started his career and – that he, in fact, believes that those early days (and the managers he worked with) – played a major role in shaping his work ethic and helping him become the leader he is today. Rex shares some great examples of clients he’s helped and how we can each take responsibility for changing our situations.

Discussion Points

Rex’s career history
Command and control vs leadership
Rex’s “old-style” leadership
Intelligent disobedience
Taking responsibility for changing your life
Leadership style is linked to expectations
Allowing command and control leadership
Impacts of command and control leadership on mental health
Rex’s thoughts on HR in a business
The things that had the biggest impact on Rex

Resources

Brendan Rogers Website

Brendan Rogers LinkedIn

The Culture of Leadership Podcast Website

The Culture of Leadership LinkedIn

The Culture of Leadership Facebook Page

The Culture of Leadership YouTube Channel

The Culture of Leadership Instagram

Woolworths

Rex Buckingham LinkedIn

Leadership Thinking academy

Develop Through Leadership Thinking (Amazon)

If you have any questions for Brendan around this episode or generally around culture, leadership, or teamwork, feel free to contact him here.

Discussion Points

Rex’s career history
Command and control vs leadership
Rex’s “old-style” leadership
Intelligent disobedience
Taking responsibility for changing your life
Leadership style is linked to expectations
Allowing command and control leadership
Impacts of command and control leadership on mental health
Rex’s thoughts on HR in a business
The things that had the biggest impact on Rex

Resources

Brendan Rogers Website

Brendan Rogers LinkedIn

The Culture of Leadership Podcast Website

The Culture of Leadership LinkedIn

The Culture of Leadership Facebook Page

The Culture of Leadership YouTube Channel

The Culture of Leadership Instagram

Woolworths

Rex Buckingham LinkedIn

Leadership Thinking academy

Develop Through Leadership Thinking (Amazon)

If you have any questions for Brendan around this episode or generally around culture, leadership, or teamwork, feel free to contact him here.

Previous Episode

58. How to be an Effective Leader

Tom Lawrence started out as an engineering apprentice at an automotive company in Liverpool in the UK. He worked in this industry for a few years, throughout which he found himself working under multiple managers who were not particularly good leaders. These were the quintessential managers of the past... people who just focussed on “getting the job done”. Once he became a manager, he found himself scrambling to figure out the job of leading a team – wishing he had been trained by his predecessor. This led him to the realization that if a manager really does a good job, they are actively upskilling their team to become leaders themselves.

Today you will hear about how Tom came to write his book “Manager to Leader” (Amazon) and we dig a little deeper into a few of the topics he covers in this book. Tom is passionate about teaching people to lead well and I was inspired by his worldview on leaders.

Discussion Points

Tom’s leadership journey
Writing “Manager to Leader”
Managers vs Leaders
False influence vs genuine influence
How to influence genuinely
Leaders being developed before becoming leaders
Insecure leaders vs secure leaders
What is micromanagement?
Changing managers’ mindsets
Tips
Leading up
What has had the biggest impact on Tom’s leadership journey

Resources

Brendan Rogers Website

Brendan Rogers LinkedIn

The Culture of Leadership Podcast Website

The Culture of Leadership LinkedIn

The Culture of Leadership Facebook Page

The Culture of Leadership YouTube Channel

The Culture of Leadership Instagram

Highly Effective Leader Website

Leadership & Growth YouTube Channel

Manager to leader book (Amazon)

If you have any questions for Brendan around this episode or generally around culture, leadership, or teamwork, feel free to contact him here.

Next Episode

60. The Culture of Ubuntu Leadership

In today’s episode, I speak to Jodie Hill, the founder, and director of a company called Custodians of Change. They focus on educating the world on self-sustainability and self-worth. Jodie is a brilliant speaker and articulates with near perfection a model she created around the concept of UBUNTU. This concept has been around for many years in the African cultures – and it means “I am because we are” – referring to the idea that as individuals, we are better when we are contributing to the collective community.

She experienced this idea most powerfully during her time living in South Africa. Her feeling, now, is that the rest of the world could greatly benefit from embracing an “Ubuntu” point of view – both personally and in business.

Jodie shares great personal experiences and examples of people “living Ubuntu” and it’s difficult to argue with the proven success in using this outlook to help communities flourish and take care of each other. This episode is one that will hopefully help you see the ways in which you can help others win so that we as a community can win.

Discussion Points

What is “Ubuntu”?
Behind the philosophy fellowship
The “Lobola” system
The meaning of “Umuntu”
How Nelson Mandela lived “Ubuntu”
Jodie’s experience in South Africa and connecting with the community
Jodie’s Ubuntu Model
- Understand
- Being
- Unite
- New Spirit
- Trust
- Unconditional Love
The thing that had the greatest impact on Jodie’s leadership journey