7 SEVEN "7 levels of DIAMOND LEADERSHIP INQUIRY
The difference between aligned and misaligned teams/organization, is the difference between average and excellent. When strategies are misaligned with culture, organizations and businesses pay extremely high price. Aligned teams happen to be innovative, perform faster and better in the changing environment. Leaders and entrepreneurs need to be able to create safe environment platforms, where the collective intelligence emerges, people align and continuously innovate. The Diamond Leadership is a simple co-creative guide that puts in one place the tools and practices that liberate innovation and align teams in organizations. It will assist you to create cohesion in your team where creativity and innovation are natural states of functioning?
7 SEVEN "7 levels of DIAMOND LEADERSHIP INQUIRY
- 1. SERVICE to HUMANITY 7 SEVEN MAKING a DFFERENCE COLLABORATION WITH CUSTOMERS AND LOCAL COMMUNITY INTERNAL COHESION DEVELOPMENT OF CORPORATE COMUNITY TRANSFORMATION CONTINUOUS RENEWAL SELF- ESTEEM BEING THE BEST. BEST PRACTICE RELATIONSHIPS THAT SUPPORT CORPORATE NEEDS SURVIVAL PURSUIT OF PROFIT & SHAREHOLDER VALUE 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For teams & organizations What is our purpose as organizations? Why do we exist as company? How are we serving the humanity? How are we creating strategic alliances and partnerships? How are we creating fulfilled employees? How are we engaging with the local community to protect the environment? How are we creating organizational alignment? How are we liberating creativity and passion in the organization? How are we uniting behind our purpose? How are we learning and innovating continuously? How are we constantly sharing knowledge? How are we supporting life long learning? How are we building excellence and quality in products, systems services and processes? How do we reduce bureaucracy, hierarchy, silomentality, power seeking, confusion and arrogance? How are we maximizing internal as well as external communication? How are we reducing Internal competition, manipulation, blame, internal politics, gender and ethnic discrimination? How are we creating profit and financial stability? How are we caring for the health, safety and welfare of employees? How do we reduce excessive control and caution, short term focus, corruption, greed and exploitation?
- 2. 7 Levels KEY QUESTION/S Good companies work with answers, excellent companies work with questions. If you ask the organization the right question, that is more powerful than the answers they already have. Nick Udal - NOWHERE If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I knew the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than 5 minutes. Albert Einstein Its the question that drives us, Neo... Trinity to Neo, in the movie The Matrix
- 3. KEY QUESTION/S for CREATIVE DIALOGUE The key question is used as a vehicle to extract the wisdom from the person and/or the system through the process of creative dialogue/inquiry. The key question is open ended. You cant answer it alone, you need systemic co-creative energy. We want to hold it rather than answer it fast, in order to allow the creative tension to work on us - The unknown to metabolise and UNFOLD in something NEW innovation. With the key question, there are no compromises. It must keep you energized and awake, and hold your attention. If there is not enough energy in the question, simply do not start (the meeting, strategy session) until you feel right excerpt from the "Diamond Leadership" book
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