Twin Strategies

① Nourish creative dissatisfaction with the status quo to reduce resistance to change and inspire innovation.

② Lead change by example – demonstrate a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Create Change

Great Leaders change before they have to – they create change proactively for innovation and competitive advantage. They are proactive innovators and game-changers who create paradigm shifts. They transform their organization, the markets, the society and the nature of competition.

What separates extraordinary transformational leaders from proponents of the status quo?

They start with declaring that the future should be and breaking outdated rules. They articulate a purpose, something to stand for and commit to. And they lead transformational change by example.

Example: GE Change Acceleration Program (CAP)

CAP was implemented by Jack Welch to help drive change throughout the organization... More

25 Lessons from Jack Welch

Create Change!

Articulate Your Vision

See Change as an Opportunity

Eliminate Bureaucracy

Get Less Formal

Involve Everyone

GE Work Out

GE Work Out

5 Dimensions of Targeted Growth

Be an Inspirational and Entrepreneurial Leader

Entrepreneurial leaders can blast through the many sources of corporate inertia. Inspirational leaders can motivate the actions needed to alter behavior in any significant way. Result-oriented leaders can establish a sense of urgency, overcome resistance to change, and get change to stick, by anchoring it in the culture, systems, and structures of the organization.

Harmony Master

It's a perpetuum mobile – change creates leaders, leaders create change...

~ Vadim Kotelnikov

Yin and Yang of Change Management

Yin: Anticipating and adapting to change.

Yang: Creating and leading change; developing and introducing revolutionary value; disrupting industry.

Intuitive-style leader often introduces change by just announcing it without defrosting the status quo and picturing a better future. The response to this approach generally creates rigidity and higher resistance.

Why Leaders Fail: 12 Main Reasons

Why Change Fails

Inspirational creative leader explains why change is needed, discusses change with stakeholders, invites feedback and suggestions, holds meetings. This creates a more open, trusting organizational culture. 

Change Management A-to-Z

Leadership-Management Synergy

What do leaders and managers do? Leaders drive change, managers maintain consistency. Leaders amplify strengths, managers reduce weaknesses. Entrepreneurial leaders pursue opportunities, managers reduce risks.

Synergize leadership and management role to achieve greater success... More

Empowering Leadership

Harmony Master

As a master harmony and harmonious development, change leader  dismantles corporate disharmonies wisely, designs a harmonious change program, leads the change process organization-wide, and gets the change to stick by anchoring it in corporate culture, systems, and structures.

Harmonious Organization: 5 Basic Elements