leadership tic tac toe: cultivating organisational learning
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Guest lecture for Masters Library Information Science subject LIBR 204-15Information Organizations and Management, San Jose State University. Delivered 17 September 2009.TRANSCRIPT
Leadership tic-tac-toe:cultivating
organisational learning
Let’s talk about leadership…
Definition of leadera person who rules or guides or inspires others
Leading vs managing
Definition of manager
a person who controls and manipulates
resources
Shared leadership: leaders and
followers
Definition of a followera person who commits and actively contributes to outcomes
What is a learning organization?
…where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nutured, where
collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning together…(Senge)
Seven elementsClarity CreationCommunity CollaborationConversationConnectivityCommitment
Clarity
O
Be clear on yourPurposeDefinitionVisionExpectations
X
Creation
O
Knowledge creation is social
Individual Collective
Nonaka
X
O
Community
O
Definition of communitya unified body of individualsjoint ownership or participationsocial activity
Community of practicea group of people informally
bound together by shared expertise and passion for
joint enterprise
O
OX
Collaboration
X
Teaming across all vertical and horizontal levels of an organization
O
O
X
Conversation
O
X
Social learning conversation, imitation, context, modelling behaviour
Creating the informal builds:
community & relationships
O
O
X
Connectivity
O
XX
Technology supports knowledge transfer
Making local knowledgeglobal
O
O
X
Commitment
OX
X
O
Across all levelsof an organization
Commitment toBeing a leader and followerCompetency and focusSelf managementThe organizationOthers
SummationThe learning organization
requires effective leadership
across all levels
AcknowledgementsAll images are courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons
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