Todd Warner
Organizations are vibrant, living social systems. At the core of these systems are local tribes. These tribes develop their own mythology, ways of working, and norms; […] In aggregate, organizations are poor at localizing things (whether strategies or new technology platforms), because they generally lack the language and lens for affecting tribalism.
Content: Quotation | Author: Todd Warner | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Organizational Behavior
Todd Warner
Leaders want to get better in the here-and-now, not to be judged against a competency map or be sold an abstract theory about what leadership should look like. If you want to become a great leader, become a student of your context — understand your organization’s social system — and mind your routines. Leadership development is more about application than theory.
Content: Quotation | Author: Todd Warner | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development, Training & Development
3 Reasons Why Talent Management Isn’t Working Anymore
Individuals can make a difference in an organization, but a social system — particularly in large organizations — is always stronger. Fundamentally, organizations domesticate people—they condition people to work in certain ways, and they inadvertently perpetuate the status quo. People get tagged as “talented” when they fit in (or pretend to). This ends up exacerbating conformity and fear, and perpetuating the very problems that the … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Todd Warner | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
What Separates High-Performing Leaders from Average Ones
For decades, leadership development has focused on “competencies,” a psychometric-based method of assessing and developing leader behavior. Organizations figure out the competencies that leaders need to be successful, help them develop those competencies, and then measure those competencies in the organization.
The problem is that this logic is inconsistent with how work actually gets done. Leadership does not happen in a vacuum; leaders are always acting … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Todd Warner | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Leadership