7 Principles of Leadership Development

Don’t ever criticize a manager for not being a leader if no one has ever told him or her what the role is. Rather criticize the inept organization that appointed them.

If I do not know I do not know I think I know

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play the game, of not seeing I see the game.

Change can lead to resistance or cooperation

When we behave as-if things are complicated or complex, this behavior forces us to leave our existing field of thought/vision or to accept that it may be limiting.

Finding Solutions Through the Resolution of Guilt – Skeleton Keys

Our guilt and concern for what happened in the past may block progress to find a solution. The resolution of guilt Skeleton Key may be used to have the person determine what will be happening when this guilt is lessened or no longer exists. From this change in focus, new solutions may become evident.

Culture Surveys Do Not and Cannot Measure Culture

Trying to work with the existing culture in a co-evolution organical process may allow the people within the culture to change their current behaviors and understand that their expertise is what allowed the change to happen. For this cooperation and trust attracting systems must be used.

Trust from shared vulnerability not gullibility

Organizations and people are not gullible because they believe statements that appeal to them or really would like a way to make sense of a complex interactional workplace. The experiment shows that 84% of us have shared concerns, beliefs, needs, and areas where we feel weakness but do not think that others share these challenges.