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This Harvard Business School Working Knowledge article outlines personality traits that contemporary executives need to build adaptive and sustainable organisations.
- Be a catalyst, not a planner
- Trust and let go
- Be an explorer
- Be courageous
- Be present
- Live values with conviction
These are all inarguably laudable traits. The influence of these traits on positive organisational development is supported by research evidence.
And yet, they also sound pat and unrealistically idealistic. Amidst chaotic change, many organisation leaders are caught up in the processes of the old world - linear thinking, assumption of infinite exponential growth, expectations of absolute systematisation, and root-cause problem-solving (instead of expansive opportunity-finding).
How can we truly gain and polish these new traits for a changing world?
