A 3-D Leadership Revelation
A recent post https://www.bebee.com/producer/@harvey-lloyd/producing-the-light-of-leadership has lead to some interesting comments and discussion. I wanted to follow on with the extended version of the concept.
We tend to look at chaos, crisis or stimulus that requires us or the company to change from fear, in lieu of learning or developing wisdom. We all seem to admit that change is a part of life and professional pursuits. But when engaged with the change we see it as something wrong. I don't think this to be abnormal, as we have all been feed a pretty healthy diet of marketing. New marketing installs a problem and then comes to the rescue with a product or service. A solution in search of a problem.
This style marketing has some unintended consequences on the viewer. The one i refer to here is that each problem we have has a quick and easy solution. Setting us up to feel unworthy if we can't find the solution. Marketers can get us from problem to solution in thirty seconds. If it's a large crisis, sixty seconds.
The darkness to light concept produced in the previous post is the leader that has revelation, ponders solution and then presents to the team. What was left out was the "cycle" of revelation to wisdom.
If we view the A/B solution process we can quickly see that the spiral will take more time and interactions. Should we want the diverse inputs of our team the spiral is the only way to bring the team up to speed of leaders. Leaders have already worked through the macro. The team can now join the thought process and fill in the diverse details.
The one attribute to leaders using this model is they establish a system where each team member knows the spiral will pass again. They need not fear the future, in the present. They know that the spiral will bring the team back to their area again and again. Allowing trust in the system to form. Within the A/B model each team member knows they have to be right every time. No do overs or tweaking.
Secondarily, the spiral will insure a diverse solution. With each spiral we introduce wiser and wiser people from all different categories of diversity. This, unlike the A/B model, insures that the leader does not produce an echo chamber of low diversity solutions.
Each time a leader establishes the A/B solution and it works out, they elevate the cliff they will fall from within the gamble of Russian roulette.
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This coincides also with the post by @Ali Anani https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ali-anani/hunting-for-understanding Specifically the fractal graphics and commentary.
Zacharias 🐝 Voulgaris discusses this beginning of understanding the process of low resolution to high, or another way from revelation to wisdom.
Two excellent posts that were inspiration for extending my own post.
Most leaders who do practice the A/B model tend to be viewed as bullies, dictators or insensitive. The spiral styled leaders who want the ramp of success to be available to everyone, establish a culture of individual growth.
Keep in mind as we review this concept that neither the A/B nor the spiral concept produce perfect or unflawed results. From revelation to wisdom is a journey and not a solution. We should ask ourselves the question which process would create the better solution within the end game sought?
The spiral perspective has long term benefits. With each market revelation the team quickly adapts to a common understanding of how change works within their team. With this adaptation, the spiral stays the same, but people move faster along the radius. Trust has now taken over the gas pedal.
Leadership understanding is the processes we decide to use to get from revelation to solution. A beginners mind or a fractal pattern or the spiral presented here. They all show that the path is one of discovery and not instant answers. The revelation you started with, may not look the same if the starting point includes a journey of discovery.
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Harvey Lloyd
5 years ago #22
Clau Valerio I think you broaden the thought into the shadow depths of human understanding. This spiral is merely the process that will hopefully remind us to explore each station, as you stated, in seeking wisdom. We can use the spiral in life or in situations. Each day offers revelation in self or within social constructs. How we receive and act within revelation is the spirals meaning. A visual that helps us understand that revelation is something we share along a journey of wisdom. Wisdom is within what you seek in life whether physical or metaphysical. The spiral for me is a reminder in leadership that we pay dearly for short cuts vertically as we pass by these stations. Each cycle of the journey brings understanding within the group and the whole group comes along for the journey. Short cuts typically cut others out and leave carnage along the path that should have been. This spiral as Ali \ud83d\udc1d Anani, Brand Ambassador @beBee has shown in his fractal nature is just one of many within any given situation. This is the challenge. If we see another skipping vertically to the success we can forget our own need to walk the journey. Thanks for stopping by and again your share.
Harvey Lloyd
5 years ago #21
Harvey Lloyd
5 years ago #20
Harvey Lloyd
5 years ago #19
You mean you don't enter meetings with purple robes and crowns on while pomp and circumstance plays in the background:) I agree the world of leadership counsel seems to have spent too much time at the psychedelic bar. They may need to back off the glue sniffing. But i still suggest the word and reclaiming it from the lofty clouds of academia and branding.
Pascal Derrien
5 years ago #18
Indeed a true coach, guide et etc etc in my view is a self effacing character pretty much the opposite of what we see nowadays, I value doubt as a self engine leading to assertiveness not cockiness or parade at the shiny show :-)
Harvey Lloyd
5 years ago #17
Harvey Lloyd
5 years ago #16
I am not so sure it is imagination. I believe it to be a fractal puzzle that each leader has to put together. I would say a that we get overrun with the need to solve critical path concepts in short periods of time. This would make it a cognitive issue. Time compressing learning of complex issues leads to bad choices. The spiral, if conceptualized, gives leaders the chance to uncompresss the learning curve. Gain insight from diverse team members and learn. Assembling the complex puzzle in the best of circumstances. Here in the US car salesman are trained to engage for long periods of time around small points. Once you are engaged it’s hard to turn away. They use time against you. Knowing this you can remove these tactics from them. But leaders can take advantage of this same technique in a positive way with their team. Get them invested in the solution and over time they can contribute to the body of knowledge required for success.
Harvey Lloyd
5 years ago #15
Dont blame you for calling Bullsh!t on the word leadership. I used to avoid the word myself as branding and academia have stolen the definition to mean something it is not. Leadership in that world, assumes the leader knows all and that the theory has absolute answers. If this were so, then why do we have crisis? I finally decided i was going to my own definition. There are but three positions you can take when approaching challenges. Shit happens and watch, be a victim or take point. All three have advantages and disadvantages intrinsically and extrensically. Leadership is only about taking point and being the best you can be within the challenge. You dont have answers but you will facilitate the best your team has to offer in creating the solution. A true leader only assists all involved in finding answers to questions that just 24 hours ago didnt exist. Everyone is a leader or will become one. If you have children, married, friends who lean on you or social organizations that you participate, you will find yourself choosing between the three options above. Dictators with word salad, lead from the ivory tower of academia or branding. Leaders choose direction, team and apply resources to find the path. Leaders best friend is time. Dictators dont need time as they already have every answer. A good leader begins asking questions while time exist to engage the diversity of their team. Dictators use their time to extend their brand and offer proclamations to crisis. I think we need to take back the true meaning of leadership and not let branding and academia take a fundamental word and twist it into a marketable commodity.
Pascal Derrien
5 years ago #14
Ali Anani
5 years ago #13
Yes, it is the limitations of our imagination to represent all dimensions. If we present three variables on three dimensions most people get confused and so we prefer the simpler two dimensional presentations.
Harvey Lloyd
5 years ago #12
. Like all dynamic concepts it seems that each one you bring forward is only one of two hundred demsinsions that are nested within each other. I would say that the OTHER acronym fits more at the individaul level. Revelation the leader experiences is run through OTHER prior to the team and them when revelation is presented to the team members the OTHER acronym is observed by them individually. Or one would hope this is the way each person in an organization would approach Revelation. Secondarily i drew this up from the perspective of a leader. I have always considered Mom/Dad or social leadership in the same way as corporate. So each label could be changed to better suit the user of the spiral. Mom or Dad may have revelation as to the family. Socially you may decide that your social group could be better served through a revelation you have experienced. The fractal referenced also fits nesttted inside the spiral and is the spiral itself. So the degrees of nesting are endless. It really was a 2d to 3D view of the previous post. But i think we could use a few extra demisnons to add all the pieces we have discussed. Ps thanks for the grammar fix. (English is not my strong suit and its my native language)
Harvey Lloyd
5 years ago #11
Thanks for stopping by, i have really enjoyed my conversations with Ali \ud83d\udc1d Anani, Brand Ambassador @beBee. I am looking forward to the new hive the two of you have created.
Ali Anani
5 years ago #10
Harvey Lloyd
5 years ago #9
Thank you for your comment and share Debasish Majumder
Debasish Majumder
5 years ago #8
Ali Anani
5 years ago #7
You are one of the top three people that engaged very healthily with me and enlightened my life.
Harvey Lloyd
5 years ago #6
I read your post you have many you engage with. I am appreciative of your time commenting between my crazy shadow conversations. It enlightens me our dialogue.
Ali Anani
5 years ago #5
Harvey Lloyd
5 years ago #4
Thanks for your share and encouragement. The alternative outside some form of the spiral seems to lack the ability to reproduce itself overtime. WIth the AB thoughts you wind up having to carry more and more energy of change. The team has difficulty in supporting the methodology.
Ali Anani
5 years ago #3
Ali Anani
5 years ago #2
Ali Anani
5 years ago #1