Upward And Onward

Tuesday, 20. July 2010 by Ronald T. Brown, Ph.D.

What are the organizational leadership concepts that are most likely to move your organization into the future?
Check out the following:

1. EXECUTION – “It’s not your strategic choices that drive success, but how well you implement them over time.”

2. THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION – “A learning organization is one that is deliberately designed to encourage their people to keep thinking, innovating, collaborating, talking candidly, improving their capabilities, and making personal commitments - thereby increasing the organization’s long-term competitive advantage.”

3. CORPORATE VALUES – “Companies that care about ethics, trust, citizenship, and even meaning and spirituality in the workplace (and articulate their values carefully) far out perform companies that are focused simply on the bottom-line.”

4. CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT – “The cultivation of long-term relationships with customers, and their needs, leads to highly focused companies that seek to make consumers part of their family.”

5. DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY – “Embracing technological innovation can radically undermine competitors that remain vulnerable because of their own efforts to simply make current technologies more efficient… So in this there is a warning: Preempt your own comfort zone by adopting a new, “disruptive technology” yourself - before others beat you to it.”

6. LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT – “You can train all your employees to be better choosers, strategists, managers, and in the end, better leaders. Do just that.”

7. ALIGNED DNA – “Innovative leaders design their organization’s structures, incentives, reporting relationships, and flow of information to create high performance by aligning them with one another and to the strategic vision and goals.”

8. COMPLEXITY THEORY – “Markets and businesses are complex systems that can not be controlled mechanistically - but need to be carefully guided as they emerge (through complexity) toward new and more effective systems and processes.”

9. LEAN THINKING – “Help employees use a heightened awareness of wisdom and conscientiousness to cut waste, eliminate cost, boost quality, and customize mass production.”