Are you linear or systemic leader?
By Viktor Kunovski
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In his latest book “the Wave Rider”, Harrison Owen, the originator of the open space technology makes distinction between organizations who were engaged in linear development and few others which had almost instantaneous change results and development trajectory that was anything but the standard linear model. He calls them High Performing System.
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You are executive with years of experience. You have an MBA from prestigious university and your organization is making money.
And yet the company results are just average, “good rather than great“.
The speed of change has left your company back in the race.
These days you feel like NOKIA looking at the iPhone.
So what is happening?
Do you belong to the old school of business leaders and thinkers, the linear (top to bottom) thinkers? or you are a systemic leader?
Your executive team makes decisions and strategies on the top floor or on the 2 day retreat somewhere in the mountain. Than you come back and try to execute the strategy down the line. By the time you got back from the mountain the strategy has become old. You know that something is not working.
What is happening, you ask again?
Have you noticed? your competitors have embraced systemic thinking and leading, they are not even hiding it.
They are measuring the culture, the pulse and the health of the whole system because they know that systemic intelligence is always wiser than the smartest minds.
They are approaching change systemically, employees participate in leadership and share responsibility.
Their innovation and creativity has exploded since they are working with those open space systemic methods and tools.
Clients, shareholders, environment, even your staff adores them.
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Get systemic in 3 easy steps:
1) Leadership team MUST commit fully behind the culture transformation. Without this any effort is waste of time and energy.
2) Start measuring organizational values and culture using CVA Culture Values Assessment
3) Involve the whole system in meaningful conversations based on the results from the measurements, especially on the values in the desired culture.
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