While leading change in today’s VUCA-influenced organizations, the final, expected outcomes do not happen overnight. We analyze, learn, adapt, and improve, then we get things back on track. We lead the organizational change effectively only if we develop self and others around us. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein.
Not only we must think systems and patterns while changing our organizations, buy also we need to do so interdependently with our stakeholders. “If you’re only a “Hammer”, everything will look to you like a “nail”.” – George Sharp. This means that good leaders must think differently while transforming self and their predictable or unpredictable organizations, relying on wider thinking horizons, deeper sense-making, and more committed advocates.
Today’s leaders need to unravel the maze of complexity from a leadership perspective. Then, they may recognize a polarity causing this complexity. Here, leaders learn to think, to trust, to make sense, and to lead. “In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. ― Eric Hoffer. We only learn, if we analyze our practice against a higher level of focus – strategy – that directs us and aligns our efforts.
Therefore, I think that I need to better understand (make deeper sense of) my organizational strategies and systems. I may be challenged by simple, complicated, complex, and/ or chaotic sub-systems. If I advance even more in unraveling the maze of the sub-systems and small contributions, I will improve in terms of putting them back together so that their synergetic interdependence is better aligned with my organization’s strategy. And so, I strive to capitalize upon the “small” contributions within my organization and intend to make them coalesce into a hurricane of joy and a cadence of harmoniously, positive results.
_________
- eNotes.com. (2019). What are the psychoanalytic approaches to the subject of passion? Retrieved from eNotes.com: https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-psychoanalytic-approaches-subject-passion-466245
- Akers, H. (2018, April). What Is Strategic Decision-Making? Retrieved from AZ Central – USA Today Network: https://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/strategic-decisionmaking-21018.html
- DeLeon, M. (2015, May). The Importance of Emotional Intelligence at Work . Retrieved from Entrepreneur: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/245755
- IAC Publishing, LLC. (2019). What Does Working Culture Mean? Retrieved from IAC Publishing, LLC: https://www.reference.com/business-finance/working-culture-mean-8ef59ab56745d67c
- Kegan, R., & Lahey, L. (2016). An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization . HBR.
- Lamach, M. W. (2017). How Our Company Connected Our Strategy to Sustainability Goals. HBR.
- Management Study Guide. (2019). Work Culture – Meaning, Importance & Characterics of a Healthy Culture. Retrieved from Management Study Guide: https://www.managementstudyguide.com/work-culture.htm
- Porter, M. E. (1996). What Is Strategy? HBR.
- Scuderi, R. (2019). What are the differences between knowledge, wisdom, and insight? Retrieved from Lifehack: https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/what-are-the-differences-between-knowledge-wisdom-and-insight.html
- Snowden, D. (2019). Cynefin Framework Introduction. Retrieved from Cognitive Edge: http://cognitive-edge.com/videos/cynefin-framework-introduction/
- Tsusaka, M., Reeves, M., Hurder, S., & Harnoss, J. (2017, July). Diversity At Work. Retrieved from Boston Consulting Group: https://www.bcg.com/publications/2017/diversity-at-work.aspx
- WorkplaceTesting Inc. (2019). Work Tolerance. Retrieved from WorkplaceTesting Inc.: https://www.workplacetesting.com/definition/2584/work-tolerance