Transforming Your Leadership Culture

264 TRANSFORMING YOUR LEADERSHIP CULTURE

Development. This organization is characterized by:

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a short - term focus

on improving talent,

systems, and processes

a comprehensive

approach to developing

human systems and

operational systems

to sustain outputs and

changeability

Belief system. The prevailing assumptions and attitudes are:

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conservative, “ either - or ”

in solving problems and

making decisions — a

black - and - white

mind - set

creative and

transformative in terms

of “ both - and ” problem

solving; people use

paradox to generate

action and invite open

expression of intuition

and emotions

Figure 11.3 illustrates how responses to the exercise prompts
in Exercise 11.3 can be mapped.

Feasibility in the Cases

To illustrate the application of the feasibility mapping exercises
to leadership culture transformation, we have gone back to our
six cases and done a retrospective mapping. These stories and
illustrations can help you guide a similar discovery and dialogue
process for your executive team, for a CLT (if one exists in your