Reconstructed Leadership

Adding people to an organization or transferring them out of an organization changes the culture of that organization. Imparting new knowledge changes culture. Changes in the structure, environment, or processes of a culture change that culture. Even the emotional transformation of a single member of a team changes the culture of that team. Change is everywhere. As the Greek philosopher Heraclitus (c. 500 BCE) told us more than 25 centuries ago, we cannot walk into the same river twice, change is every day. Change is continual. Just like that river of long ago, we cannot walk into the same organization twice. We and the world we live in, our reality, experience a continuous process of transformation. Change is inevitable. Even the people who do not like change, change. Learn to take charge of it.

The point here is that cultures are forever in flux. We cannot prevent a culture from evolving. However, we can guide the direction of such inevitable change. This is Evolutionary Leadership, or Leadership by Design. Functioning as an Evolutionary Guidance System, enterprise leadership can guide the evolutionary unfolding of an organization. In precisely this way, leaders guide the evolution of an organization from one state of culture to another. This is the best anyone can do. Think about it. As you do so, learn to leverage the power of change to defuse the treats of Cyber Terror. This will be one change that you can live with comfortably. Life is like a roller-coaster more often than we ever imagine.

Compelled by my driving interest in the success of other people, I am very much interested in the nature of Leadership and the leaders who attain the heights of Leadership success, something I call Ulthule™, my unique expression.

I think that it is interesting to note that over the years, I have found that the great majority of these leaders are unknown, unrecognized, and hidden behind the scene. For every great leader who is honored by peers and strangers alike, a dozen leaders carry him or her on their shoulders to savor the glory. This is no accident. For the hallmark of great Leadership is not fame, but it is actually evolutionary unfolding and design competence. This may not be where your prejudices lie, and it may be contrary to your opinions, common wisdom, or even your gut intuition. Nevertheless, it is the reality of leaders that they guide the evolutionary unfolding of their teams and organizations by unleashing the power of their design competence.