Surfing the Edge of Chaos:
Adaptive leadership disturbs equilibrium:
a) Communicate
the urgency of the issue
b) Establish
a broad understanding of the roots of the problem - explain why
traditional solutions won’t work.
c) Holding stress in play until guerrilla leaders come forward with solutions.
Adaptive leaders can disturb equilibrium by:
a) Overloading
the organization beyond its business as usual carrying capacity
b) Using
deadlines, public scrutiny and other action-forcing events to sustain
disequilibrium
c) Identifying
the adaptive challenges BUT NOT stepping in to fix them
Bruce Borup does not rely on age-old, conventional business standards in his white paper "Ruminations on Strategy." Instead, he has laid out his own ruminations which reflect the ideas of modern thinkers such as Richard Pascale, Mark Milleman, Linda Gioja, M. Mitchell Waldrop, James Collins, and Jerry Porras.
Borup’s White Paper delves into the idea that chaos is an essential element in the survival and success of an organization. This is founded on the idea that linear principles no longer serve the purpose of modern enterprises. Instead, organizations must be readily flexible to face challenges and accept them openly. Although crisis is commonly perceived as something negative, it is a time when innovation flourishes.
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| From Bruce Borup |
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