Leader as a Visionary

Question 1

types of projects?

Answer 1

strategic change
designing high performing orgs
team-based orgs
new reward and selection practices
organization learning

Question 2

What does the Center for Effective Orgs do?

Answer 2

help organizations learn to improve

generate new knowledge that can applied to toher orgs.

Question 3

Traditional Change Methods

Answer 3

• management initiated and controlled
• problem focused
• experts analyze and design solutions
• doers implement solutions
• rolled out as packaged change program
• change is discrete event

Question 4

Problems with Traditional Change Methods

Answer 4

• conflict between experts and doers
• lack of employee buy-in
• too rigid, not adaptive
• limited learning
• may solve specific problems, but doesn’t improve organizations capacity to improve itself