Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable
Richard PascaleCorporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.
Richard PascaleThe incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.
Richard PascaleUnintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often point to deeper problems. In social life, as in nature, we are walking on a trampoline. Every inroad reconfigures the environment we tread on.
Richard Pascale