Transforming Your Leadership Culture

156 TRANSFORMING YOUR LEADERSHIP CULTURE

5. The senior team recognizes the need for cross - boundary
   work.
   The senior team sees that cross - boundary work is essen-
   tial. That appreciation is often expressed as horizontal process
   work where peer - like relationships are required to cooperate
   and collaborate. Processes can include crossing the boundaries
   of functions, alliances, agencies, suppliers, and other entities
   throughout supply chains and networks.

Strategies for Change

Here is some essential strategic advice. You ’ ll see that we are
continuing the theme of collective learning throughout.

Don ’ t Hand It Off to HR

If your team shifts this work over to HR to plan and implement,
or turns it into a “ program ” for someone to manage, then your

Voice of Change

Pool hall principles apply to strategy work in change teams. Any numbskull

can make a straight shot of the three ball in the side pocket, but the question

is, Can you play the game? Can you read the table and set up the next shot

and the next? Can you run the table? Likewise, making the numbers quarter

by quarter is necessary but not nearly suffi cient when it comes to strategic

responsibility for the future. Doing what you always did and getting what

you always got stops working when markets change, because you will stop

getting what you got. Shooting pool requires a big mind capable of looking

at interconnecting systems and anticipating scenarios and alternatives in an

unfolding, hard - to - predict future. You need to connect the best and brightest

players on your change team and get them working together strategically in

order to maximize your potential. Two heads are better than one when you

have a healthy mix of leader logics and skills on a team that challenge each

other and extend the leadership logic of the whole to face the future together.