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Table 7.1 Team Leadership Logics, Leader Logics, and

Focus and Beliefs

Leadership Logics Leader Logics Focus and Beliefs

Interdependent -
Collaborator

Transformer Organizational wizardry,
transformation
“ Advancement for common good. ”
Collaborator Synthesizers, strategic infl uencers,
complexity, systems thinking
“ We are collectively capable. ”
Independent -
Achiever

Freethinker Innovation, unconventional,
new organizational orders in
construction
“ I determine value with you. ”
Performer Winning, adaptive achievement,
technical reason and mastery for
my benefi t
“ We compete to win. ”
Dependent -
Conformer

Specialist Control things, being right,

technical expertise

“ Personal competence is our

highest value. ”

Moderator Control self, go along to get along,

paternalism, confl ict intolerant,

diplomacy

“ Appearances matter. ”

Dominator Control others, loyalty, obedience,

my power, honor the code,

respect authority

“ I have the control. ”

insurance plan, for example). For dialogues - of - change work,
you need to open up Headroom and alter the time sense of
the team. These can be liberating rituals that the team eagerly
anticipates. Discussions can also be sparked by action develop-
ment agendas. For example, the team can review actions and
outcomes of the new leadership logic it ’ s trying out, gleaning