Framework
Leading the journey to create sustainable value for multiple stakeholders requires the flexible combination of leveraging the forces and facilitators of change with leadership activities and behaviors, organizational culture, and individual leader characteristics.
The Leading Transformation Framework includes fourteen components derived from research on CEOs who led successful organization transformations resulting in the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
Research
My leadership research focuses on the leader as an organization designer and builder of the organization and systems. The leadership aspects of the framework include three key areas: individual characteristics, leadership style (behaviors), and the leadership system (activities). The individual leader characteristics include personality, attitudes, motivations, worldview, talents, abilities, spiritual life, purpose, meaning, and so on. These personal characteristics influence the leader’s behaviors which combine to create a particular leadership style. The individual leader and their style influence the activities the leader chooses, how they do them, and how well they do them. This leadership triangle influences the organizational environment and the people who occupy that environment.
Selected Publications
A Framework for Leading the Transformation to Performance Excellence Part I: CEO Perspectives on Forces, Facilitators, and Strategic Leadership Systems. Quality Management Journal.
A Framework for Leading the Transformation to Performance Excellence Part II: CEO Perspectives on Leadership Behaviors, Individual Leader Characteristics, and Organizational Culture. Quality Management Journal.
CEO Attitudes and Motivations: Are They Different for High-Performing Organizations? Quality Management Journal.
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