You may recall that your company was created in its moment to satisfy a social need or face a social challenge. It has a mission to accomplish. An organization is a group of people in relation with each other for the sake of creating value, from what David Cooperrider calls the “positive core” (assets, strengths and resources that constitute the organization’s capacity).  Cooperrider adds later: “…organizations are centers of vital connections and life-giving potentials: relationships, partnerships, alliances, and ever-expanding webs of knowledge and action that are capable of harnessing the power of combinations of strengths”.

¡It’s the time for the positive change revolution!

Now it’s the moment to adopt a focus on positive change: “any form of organization change, redesign, or planning that begins with a comprehensive inquiry, analysis, and dialogue of an organization’s positive core, that involves multiple stakeholders, and then links this knowledge to the organization’s strategic change agenda and priorities”.

Positive change revolution seeks the liberation of everyone’s talent instead of attracting and retaining the talent of the few. Looks for authentic leadership as opposed to leadership as a position. It embraces chaos and forget about controlling everything. Support and enhance relations and connections between its members to boost action and useful knowledge expansion. It creates nexus of caring and purpose instead of hierarchy of instructions. It opens the space for authentic dialogue.

Most likely, we have exhausted the sources of problem solving, which helped us to reduce the denominator. But we haven’t exhausted, and we will never do, the sources of creativity and human potential that feed the numerator, specially when the strengths of many are combined to unfold a collective dream. A future which is worth fighting for. We human, are naturally creative, resourceful and whole, and thus we have the capacity of dreaming and creating the sustainable future we want.

Imagine your organization 10 years from now, when everything is as you always wished, What do you see?

Success!

Nowadays, they keep exploring beyond their limits.

All triggered by that question: How to be the best for the world?

I know our world is closer to the quantum physics than it’s to newtonian’ at this time. As when talking about leadership it seems that it’s difficult to “move the body”, and even more to change its direction, we decided to write this post in order to explore leadership situation.

With the same intention any external force may have, provocative we hope, we are sharing here our vision about leadership in the future (although we believe some really innovative companies are already there).

vision:

“in a world of connectivity, mobility and diversity, companies work like social networks, with leadership emerging everywhere to deal with business events and thus adapt the organization to the changes necessary at any given time in a sustainable way”

what does it bring up for you?

what need to be changed to make this vision come real?

Somehow, followers make them both, leaders and tyrants. A simple decision make someone a leader or a tyrant. I do decide either to follow or not. I do decide to be a protagonist or a victim.

To which extend are we aware of this decision?

Do leaders and tyrants know what moves others to follow them?
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What new paradigm should be adopted in order to reverse radically this situation?