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Good strategies can only be successful in an organization that permits and encourages challenges. There must be continuous challenge demanded by leaders to make sense of an increasingly complex and uncertain environment. Leaders have to enable their organizations and themselves to:

Inspire
  • Establish capabilities to recognize new and emerging issues in current and potential market spaces
  • Discern patterns in events, making sense of them, and taking action to enhance chances of survival
  • Encourage exploration of new and emerging issues in current and potential market spaces
  • Stimulate self-organization, creativity, and innovation in seizing opportunities and managing risks
  • Create conditions for all stakeholders to align their values with those of the organization
Engage
  • Determine collaborative value sets which are highly flexible in their application
  • Establish distributed learning processes through information systems and knowledge management approaches
  • Build social capital through collaborating with customers, colleagues, customers, competition, and communities
  • Pioneer new distributed approaches
  • Create resilience and adaptation through shared purpose
    Built to last
Enable
  • Direction: define vision, mission, goals
  • Values: live and expect delivery of core values
  • Excitement: engender challenge and sense of achievement in everyone
  • Teamwork: facilitate people interactions and performance
  • Accountability: empower people, encourage initiative and risk taking, tolerate failure
Sources
  • Abridged and adapted from Managing Complexity, Robin Wood: 2000
  • Abridged and adapted from Effective Change, Andrew Leigh: 1988
Further reference

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