Leadership Patterns
I want to follow-up on my last post about patterns in company culture connecting these to different Leadership styles. Hermann Küster did a deep dive into the work of Rooke/Torbert who published their research “Organizational Transformation as a Function of CEOs' Developmental Stage” already in 1998. They drew a first picture of six managerial styles and an associated developmental frame that culminated in the 2005 Harvard Business Review publication of “Seven Transformations of Leadership”. Hermann connected these to the concept of the Spiral Dynamic evolution steps as outlined before.
Similar to the approach on an organizational level this framework can be used to analyze where a leader stands and initiate a personal transformation to the next level always moving up the spiral as it is proven that leaders who operate based on a “Strategist” action logic are the most successful transformational leaders. Unfortunately in the research Rooke/Torbert did in 2005 there were only 4% of them. Knowing that progressively transforming organizations become most probably industry leaders this should be a concern. Interestingly Rooke/Torbert mention Scott McNealy, Sun's founder and former CEO, in their HBR article as belonging to the Expert type leaders which fits to my statement on the Sun culture that I made previously.
|
Theme |
Value |
Leader Type |
Leader Characteristics |
Leader Strengths |
|
TOURQUOISE = Holistic |
Sacrifice self interest to bigger whole |
Alchemist |
Generates social transformation. |
Leads society-wide transformation |
|
YELLOW = Systemic-Integrative |
Live one's potential, no harm to others |
Strategist |
Generates organizational & personal transformations. |
Transformational leader |
|
GREEN = Communitarian |
Belonging & Harmony, Consensus |
Individualist |
Interweaves competing personal and company action logic. |
Venture & consulting roles |
|
ORANGE = Achievist |
Competes for success |
Achiever |
Meets strategic goals. |
Manager, action & goal oriented |
|
BLUE = Purposeful-authoritarian, truth |
Believes in the right way |
Diplomat Expert |
Avoids conflict. Rules by logic & expertise. |
Supportive, bring people together. Individual contributor |
|
RED = Egocentric-exploitive, power |
Conquers and wins |
Opportunist |
Wins any way possible. |
emergencies & sales opportunities |
Posted at
07:31PM Oct 15, 2009
by Volker Seubert in Human Resources |
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