tailieunhanh - Visionary Leadership Skills: Creating a World to Which People Want to Belong_4

Tham khảo tài liệu 'visionary leadership skills: creating a world to which people want to belong_4', kinh doanh - tiếp thị, quản trị kinh doanh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 78 Creating a World to which People Want to Belong Culture Versus Cult -Defining the Organization Completing the Desired State and Present State worksheets should help to provide an idea of the general path to be followed to reach a successful future and which issues need to be addressed along the way. Once an overall path has been identified the other aspect of effective macro leadership involves culture building . Having a strong clear culture that is shared by all of the members of the organization is one of the most effective ways of avoiding the kinds of incongruencies and conflicts that can easily arise in organizations such as the situation at Xerox described earlier in this chapter . According to Nicholls culture building involves drawing people into purposeful organization - one which is capable of traveling along the path that is found or of fully exploiting current opportunities. Nicholls goes on to assert that culture is built by supplying the answ ers to such questions as What is this organization all about Where do I fit in How am I valued and judged What is expected of me Why should I commit myself The answers to these questions come from defining the a vision b mission c path or strategy and d structure of the organization. The vision and mission of the organization are the answers to the questions What is this organization all about and Why should I commit myself The path and the structure of the organization supply the answers to the questions Where do I fit in What is expected of me And how am I valued and judged Incidentally it is providing the answers to all of these questions that determines the difference between cult and culture . In a cult and I have seen many business cults values and norms are imposed dogmatically from the top Aligning Levels of Change in a System 79 with no explanation except that the people near the top are somehow closer to God . Culture is something that arises from and is shared by all the members of an organization