The inverted pyramid structure isn’t a new invention, but businesses that haven’t yet taken advantage of this way of thinking might not realize what they’re missing.

They are close to reaching the peak of compassionate leadership. 7. The Compassionate Leader. This is the seventh and highest level of the pyramid. It is reserved for the best of us.

I’ve come to think of those three leadership imperatives—manage yourself, leverage your team, engage your colleagues—as layers of a pyramid in which one layer is the prerequisite to the next.

Another important tool for Blake was an Inverted Pyramid diagram, from the book titled Built From Scratch. The diagram puts customers at the top, followed by front-line associates, then field support, ...

Leadership lessons: Invert your management pyramid“We take the traditional top-down organizational chart and turn it on its head so that frontline associates can do their jobs. That is, after ...