“Leadership is walking on a razor’s edge because one [leader] has to oversee a sustained period of social disequilibrium during which people confront the contradictions of their lives . . . and adjust their values and behavior to accommodate new realities.” Leadership does more than provide vision and persuade; leadership creates conditions such that people-followers can adapt. Exercising leadership from a position of authority in adaptive situations means going against the grain. Rather than fulfilling the expectations for answers, one provides questions; rather than protecting people from outside threat, one lets people feel the threat in order to stimulate adaptation; instead of orienting people to their current roles, one disorients people so that new role relationships develop; rather than quelling conflict, one generates it; instead of maintaining norms, one challenges them.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 10:06:13 +0000
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