HEADROOM 139Thus, Headroom moves individuals and advances the col-
lective toward later stages in the leadership culture. In fact, if
sustained, Headroom is the major process that advances the
collective leadership logic, culture, and new organizational capa-
bility. When a leadership culture creates and uses Headroom, its
learning and its collective mind expand toward a more complex
logic. Figure 6.1 revisits the overall view.
Courage, Commitment, and... What Else It Takes
As a leader creating Headroom space, you ’ ll face some of the
same challenges we discussed in Chapter Three when we
described the Inside - Out versus the Outside - In approach to
leading and managing change. You ’ ll need to drop your guard,
build trust, and dig deep into beliefs and assumptions.
As a process of constantly, relentlessly, unnervingly seeking
alignment in the leadership culture, creating Headroom takes
courage and commitment. It takes guts to believe deeply in a new
vision or strategy and to stick with it. You will have to stand up
and be seen, actively challenge the status quo, and stand up to
peers who will undermine change if you do not bring them along.
VisionVisionVision
Direction
Alignment
CommitmentChallenge ImplementationStrategicDependentIndependentInterdependent
Inside- O
ut
Outside- In
Figure 6.1 Headroom: Growing Bigger Minds