LEADERSHIP CANVAS

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne’s Leadership Canvas is a central, analytic tool of Blue Ocean Leadership. It gives managers a concrete, visual framework to draw a clear picture of the current leadership reality at various levels in an organization and to understand the way employees experience leadership and where leadership may be falling short. It allows them develop a new, effective blue ocean leadership profile that releases unrealized talent and energy of employees and lifts individual and organizational performance.

Start by listing key leadership acts and activities along the horizontal axis and plotting leaders’ investment of time and effort in each activity across the vertical axis. The big picture will give you keen insight into your current leadership reality and unlock your creativity to develop a new effective leadership profile for the future. To help leaders focus on what really matters, the tool requires 10 to 15 key leadership acts and activities to be listed across the horizontal axis. The cap of 10 to 15 prevents the canvas from becoming a statement of everything and nothing.

Check out Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne’s article in Harvard Business Review – Blue Ocean Leadership and unlock the ocean of unrealized talent and energy in the organization.

Learn more about Blue Ocean Leadership.

Read the blogs:

• From Blue Ocean Strategy to Blue Ocean Leadership
• The Four Pillars of Blue Ocean Leadership
• How to See Your Current Leadership Reality
• How to Develop and Select Your New Leadership Profiles
• How to Institutionalize Your New Blue Ocean Leadership Practices
• The Mind Map of Blue Ocean Leadership