If your organization is struggling with innovation, or if you are slow in your development of a transformative culture, or if you just can’t seem to get momentum, energy and commitment from your teams . . . there may be a simple reason: You are focusing on systems and processes rather than on the development and nurturing of powerful individual leaders. And if that’s true, you are almost certain to fail in creating innovation.
Our culture tends to place an inordinate amount of value on the linear, the measurable, the predictable. We idolize our organizational charts, our forecasts, our systems of measurement and evaluation, and we come to believe that these measures are our business, rather than dangerous and potentially misleading signposts. When good things happen, we magically attribute them to our ability to manage – rather than lead – our organization. Our logic: “We measured and planned and executed, so – post hoc ergo propter hoc – our measurement, planning and execution must have caused the outcomes.” This is the first step down a very bad road.
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