this is not the age of security and certainty… it is the age of massive creativity &...
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This is not the age of security and certainty…
It is the age of massive creativity & innovation
Good news!Massive creativity existsinside most workplaces
Why isn’t anyone helping the people who want to make positive changes?Why are leaders overlooking some of their most creative talent?
Why are leaders and rebels at odds rather than creating a better future?
Rebels are troublemakers
The answer to your
future
Troublemaker Rebel
Complain Create
Me-focused Mission-focused
Pessimist Optimist
Problems Possibilities
Obsessed Reluctant
Anger Determination
Alone Together
Cynical Skeptical
High potentials have the guts and courage to take risks amid uncertainty. To make
tough decisions even if there’s a chance they’ll fail.
Samuel Bacharach, Cornell University labor management professor
<Rebels
How can leaders helpRebels?
How can leaders create a culture that adapts and thrives ?
1. Make it safe
“Nearly half of executive teams fail to receive negative news that is material to performance in a timely manner because employees are afraid….”
The Corporate Executive Board“Open Door Policy, Closed-Lip Reality”
2. Realize:No mud. No lotus
Most goals and visions feel like this.
Hard to connect new ideas to fuzziness.Hard to evaluate decisions.
Hard to know if you’re making progress.Easy to get lost.
Easy for rebels to get in trouble.
3. Be clear about expectations
4. Create new organizational habits
It’s a shame. He has some interesting ideas but doesn’t know how
to fit in..
She has great potential but she needs to learn how to
be more corporate.
5. Value, hire for differences
6. Give rebels real work
7. Teach how tonavigate organizationalpolitics and processes.
(Especially the invisible.)
8. Encourage relationship building, especially with the bureaucratic wizards
Rebels stay in the ring.
What happens when you tame wild ducks?
