Most Executives Launch Transformations. Very Few Actually Grow Them

Executive Task #1 in Any Transformation:

Get your entire leadership chain — from first-line team leads to the C-suite — genuinely on board.

Transformation has to start top-down:

• Direction

• Resources

• Consequences

➡️ BUT Transformation can only GROW BOTTOM-UP through:

• Ownership

• Ideas

• Daily execution

Therefore, you ultimately need real commitment at every leadership layer, not just the C-suite or senior leadership team.

Real commitment must run all the way down.

True commitment in the executive team gives permission and protection, while your middle and front-line leaders, with their teams are the real face of your transformation.

True commitment from them is where trust is built, and work actually gets done.

➡️ They’re where it all either sticks or dies

➡️ Without their genuine buy-in, your transformation stays a beautiful PowerPoint dream. With them, it becomes the new reality.

I often feel people completely miss the fact that transformation only truly grows bottom-up.  What’s the biggest bottom-up fail you've seen in a transformation? 👇