Transforming Your Leadership Culture

PERSONAL READINESS AND LEADING TRANSFORMATION 105

post - Achiever leaders. By guide, we mean people who are at the
Freethinker leader logic or beyond and who simultaneously are
aware of their own development and take responsibility for the
development of others. From our experience, it is clear that a
leader ’ s personal readiness to pursue an advanced independent
or interdependent leadership culture must include a capacity to
both guide and be guided in the journey toward organizational
change.
We ’ ve observed leaders who have become comfortable with
the role of guide. In each case, the organization affords a clear
base of power and infl uence from which a guide can lead or
drive change. But differences exist in what roles and practices
the guide leaders choose to exercise from one organization to
another. To judge your own readiness in this regard, spend some
time with this question:

Do I tend to refl ect, act, and refl ect again? Or do I tend to

act, react, and act?

A tendency to refl ect, act, and refl ect will serve you better than
a tendency to act, react, and act.

Table 5.1 Leadership Logics (Cultures), Leader Logics,

and Educational Roles

Leadership

Logics

Leader

Logics

Educational

Roles

Interdependent -

Collaborator

Transformer

Collaborator

Guide

Transitional Freethinker Rising

Independent -

Achiever

Freethinker

Performer

Coach

Transitional Specialist Rising

Dependent -

Conformer

Specialist

Moderator

Dominator

Controller