Leading in a Time of Change by Peter F Drucker

Author:Peter F Drucker [Drucker, Peter F]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

ATTITUDES ABOUT PEOPLE

Conclusion

You may have noticed two overall themes in the conversation between Peter Drucker and Peter Senge:

1. A leader's attitudes about change-whether it is welcomed as an opportunity and exploited

2. A leader's attitudes about people-whether the people in the organization are valued as individuals and encouraged to embrace change, innovate, and be committed to their work

When we accept the inevitability of change, we know that an organization's core values and accountabilities must be preserved; everything else must be questioned. Our focus then turns from resisting or reacting to change toward anticipating, welcoming, and exploiting change. As Peter Senge says, we learn to find where the energy wants to go and we facilitate the flow. Here are some ways to do this:

• Practice planned abandonment. Shed the mental models, products, services, strategies, and policies that are no longer, productive so that the organization can devote its energies to new opportunities.

• Practice organized improvement. Teach people within the organization to look for innovative opportunities from a variety of sources.

• Match opportunities to people and invest resources in exploiting change, rather than in solving problems.

• Preserve and communicate organizational values and understanding so as to create the trust necessary to carry people through times of change.

• Recognize the value of the individual and encourage innovation and responsibility so as to retain top-performing workers.

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