CREATING ACREATING ADYNAMIC ORGANIZATIONDYNAMIC ORGANIZATION

• Creating high performance for long time• How human systems work• Putting new ideas into practice

This is life’s work -- not a formula!

• Set directions (define value)• Creates cohesion (mobilize energy)• Creates environment for forward drive

At the heart of leadership is a personal stand

WHAT IS AT THEWHAT IS AT THEHEART OF LEADERSHIPHEART OF LEADERSHIP

• Deep sense of purposefulness vision… picture of future• Mission statement

• Seven words or less• Observable• Not apple pie

• Personal Mastery• Extend People’s development

• Systemic thinking

Seeing actions create realitySeeing actions create reality

People grow in a purposeful organization

CHARACTERISTICS OF ACHARACTERISTICS OF ADYNAMIC ORGANIZATIONDYNAMIC ORGANIZATION

• Visioning - Managing an ongoing process• Empowering - Allowance for other people to grow• Learning - Managing mental models & getting other

people to manage them

OPERATING PRINCIPLES

• Deep caring• Reason and truth and intuition• Commitment to truth

FUNCTIONS OF LEADERSHIPFUNCTIONS OF LEADERSHIP

STRONG BOARDS/ASSOCIATIONS STRONG BOARDS/ASSOCIATIONS HAVE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVESHAVE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVES

• To explore and experience the dimensions of inspired organizational performance

• To enhance one’s ability to produce outstanding results, personally and organizationally

• To grow and stretch in all dimensions• To have vision and clarify purpose• To have fun• To M.A.B.W

ASPECTS OF SYSTEMIC STRUCTURES

• Information/communications• Time lags• Resources• Role definitions• Physical flow of goods• Environment - customer demands• Rewards - incentives• Performance measures

STRUCTURES OF ORGANIZATIONSSTRUCTURES OF ORGANIZATIONS

Your structure can become outdated Your structure can become outdated

in relationship to your direction or in relationship to your direction or philosophy!philosophy!

No where in nature does everything grow forever!

INFLUENCE THE WAY PEOPLEINFLUENCE THE WAY PEOPLETHINK ABOUT REALITYTHINK ABOUT REALITY

For most people reality is a short string of events

If you wait on events you will always be reacting

Patterns of behavior

Events Responsive

React

The way you think about the world makes you either The way you think about the world makes you either

creative or responsive!creative or responsive!

FOCUS ON RESULTFOCUS ON RESULT

Self Sub ResultsConscious Conscious

Move your thoughts

METHODS OF SELF SABOTAGE

• Contradictory suggestions• Contradictory underlying beliefs• Not appreciating time delays• Wrong focus

BUILDING CREATIVE TENSIONBUILDING CREATIVE TENSION

VISIONVISION

What you want

IWhat you’ve got

CURRENT REALITYCURRENT REALITY

Emotionalstress

• Describe problems/behavior over time• Develop structural explanation for patterns (loop it)• What structural changes can you make?• How would you put changes into practice?

STEPS IN SYSTEMS THINKINGSTEPS IN SYSTEMS THINKING

• Focus on obstacle - Focus on vision• Focus on getting back on course• Focus on relieving emotional tension (Don’t make

decisions during this time)

GUIDELINES FOR DEALING WITH OBSTACLES

• Focus on result• Use obstacle instead of dealing with effect• Avoid blind inflexibility

PITFALLS IN DEALING WITH PITFALLS IN DEALING WITH OBSTACLESOBSTACLES

• Increase clarity of thinking• Allows you to make new choices• Deepens understanding of the nature of complex

systems (over time it changes the way you think)

PURPOSE OF SYSTEMS THINKINGPURPOSE OF SYSTEMS THINKING

We don’t serve our members. We don’t serve our members. We serve society!We serve society!

Anything just for the members may be short sighted!

““The world will not change until our way of thinking The world will not change until our way of thinking changes.”changes.”

Albert Einstein