Collective Leadership
Mastering Resilience: The 1-Group Collective Leadership Blueprint
For over two decades, 1-Group has defined Singapore’s premium lifestyle F&B landscape, not just through entrepreneurial vision but through a disrupted approach to management.
Led by Joseph Ong, the necessity of running large, complex, and often unconventional venues demanded a radical shift away from traditional hierarchical structures.
Bringing this visionary portfolio model—ensuring multiple viable businesses thrive within diverse spaces—to life required a strategic and revolutionary approach to leadership.
The Uniqueness: Why We Practice Collective Leadership (c-Leadership)
The core engine driving 1-Group’s success and resilience is our Collective Leadership (c-Leadership) operating model, a proven system tested across two decades, including the severe challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Key Pillars of the c-Leadership Model
Flat Hierarchical Structure
Reduce rigid, slow command chains. Our structure is deliberately flat, designed to empower ground-level decision-making, ensuring immediate responsiveness to customer and operational needs.
Cross-Functional Oversight
Teams are armed with information and autonomy. This structure allows for rapid, informed adjustments across various areas of the organisation, dramatically enhancing agility.
Ownership Culture
We instill a sense of “treating the business as your own business, and not just a job.” This unique culture inculcates responsibility and accountability across nearly every role, ensuring every team member is invested in the organization’s strategic success.
This agile, unified leadership style is the realisation of Joseph’s vision: successfully running complex businesses by bringing diverse teams together and leveraging varied perspectives for action.
Unlocking the Playbook: Public Access to 1-Group's Training
Until now, this highly successful methodology was exclusively for 1-Group’s internal talent development. For the first time, 1-Academia is making the proven managerial training that guides 1-Group leaders available to the public.
We invite industry professionals to enroll in our new course, “Mastering Collective Leadership: The 1-Group Framework.” This course offers a unique opportunity to:
Learn a Proven Model
Gain direct insight into the leadership methodology that drove Singapore’s leading F&B company to resilience and sustained growth, even through challenging economic environments.
Build an Agile Team
Acquire the strategies to deploy a flat, informed, and autonomous team capable of making rapid adjustments across the business.
Accelerate Your Career
Benchmark your leadership capabilities against the exacting standards utilised by 1-Group’s managers.
If you are ready to master a resilient, modern leadership style that prioritizes agility and ownership, join us or contact us to see how we can contextualise and jointly build this course for your internal run.