People don’t resist changes, they resist being controlled… The second of of the MCG series in helping leaders and teams develop skill in order to meet changing goals. Also includes “change AND die,” the Leadership Control model, and “resistance is a resource” references.
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Control Issues in Teams: How Do You Take Charge?
Monday, October 12th, 2009Team Shift: Membership Round 2, 3, 4…
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in their leader. A great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.” — Anon
As teams change, status and role questions arise. Roles shift, people leave for various reasons, e.g. the group churns. This post is about team shift, today focusing on MEMBERSHIP – the first [...]
Revelation, Leadership Integrity at All Levels
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Power, pride, status. How about integrity? Status can be a distraction, an illusion. This post features a list of the signs of organization leadership that form spine and integrity, as I’ve observed over the years, with live links to the top leadership blogs up for
Status Quo Shakedown Meets Right Action
Monday, June 22nd, 2009There’s comfort in friendship and community. There can also be blind spots and status quo problems inherent in comfort-based systems, sometimes tragically so, when the blind spots are very large.
Only Connect! Leaders and Tough Times
Monday, April 6th, 2009Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon.
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted,
And human love will be seen at its height.
Live in fragments no longer.
Only connect…
–E.M. Forster, Howards End
Forster characters illustrate the tensions and challenge of making connections among different social classes in the period that preceded the [...]
Voice of the Tribe & Community
Monday, February 9th, 2009Two UM examples of Tribes and Community are cited, while referencing higher education culture and the new book, Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization.
Competency Work–Top Down, Bottom Up, & Middle in Higher Education?
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009Competency programs and models seem to be picking up speed in higher education – which may be connected with the impact of social media and the career development aspects of competencies.
“My current thinking on competency models is to consider them more as an ‘intermediate stage’ in the evolution (of capability building efforts) rather than as the final stage.” — Prasad Kurian’s blog post, and Alltop HR blog on HR, OD and Personal Effectiveness