Week Ending 24th February 2023
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In this week’s article Will Sambrook looks at the way we can distinguish the hierarchical concept of management from the emergent nature of leadership. The article ends by defining a set of focuses for leaders with anAgileMind.
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New practices have been added to support the focus areas that underpin Leading Not Managing. The owning practice categories have been updated to reflect these new pages.
If we claim to have anAgileMind we should actively seek out feedback from those around us. Feedback helps us to improve our performance by reinforcing our strengths and giving us the opportunity to overcome our weaknesses. Feedback is emotionally and physically costly to those who give it. We should respect the act of receiving feedback from others by taking care to act on it.
We collaborate to define our target culture for the organisation. The culture is defined by the purpose, value, behaviours and principles of the organisation. Culture is further influenced and constrained by the structures, roles and working practices of the organisation. Culture is collaborative and consensual in nature and requires conscious choice by all the organisations members to become real.
As leaders striving to foster new and improved culture within the organisation it is critical that we model the values and behaviours that we expect from others - do as I do rather than do as I say. Being human we all mess up from time to time. When we mess up modelling the desired behaviours, we are open and honest about our mistake. We are open and honest about how we are going to put things right. We listen to and accept valid feedback on our leadership wherever it comes from. We act on the feedback in order to improve our leadership.
The organisation must remain capable of delivering its goals and objectives. It must continue to deliver the features and services of its portfolio of products. The organisation must be resilient in the face of challenge and change so that it can continue to realise value by delivering to its customers.
