Answer the discussion question:

"When new leaders take over existing organizations, they find that the existing culture defines what kind of leadership style is expected and accepted, based on past history and the beliefs, values, and assumptions of earlier leaders."

This was certainly the case for Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat when he came in from Delta to IBM.

And ones values, beliefs, and assumptions can change over time or not, which can be a positive or negative depending on context. For organizations, out dated "mental models", as Senge calls them, can be a detriment.

Schein provides a New Metaphor for Culture – Leadership as a wave, Culture as a Sandy Beach, and Change as the resulting patterns of wave/leadership and beach/culture interactions. It’s a dynamic model. Give an example from your work or life experience using the metaphor. Feel free to draw a picture using Wave, Sand, Beach to depict your example and then describe.

We will return to this process in another exercise using a model more resonant with management consulting, however this process of metaphor and drawing frees up thinking from the binds of spreadsheets, performance goals, deadlines and artifacts of "culture".

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Session 2, Jan. 4, Defining Culture Change Leadership – A New Metaphor for Culture


"When new leaders take over existing organizations, they find that the existing culture defines what kind of leadership style is expected and accepted, based on past history and the beliefs, values, and assumptions of earlier leaders."

This was certainly the case for Jim Whitehurst, of Red Hat when he came in from Delta Airlines to become COO. Red Hat was subsequently acquired by IBM which was short lived for Whitehurst.

And ones values, beliefs, and assumptions can change over time or not, which can be a positive or negative depending on context. For organizations, out dated "mental models", as Senge calls them, can be a detriment.

Schein provides a New Metaphor for Culture – Leadership as a wave, Culture as a Sandy Beach, and Change as the resulting patterns of wave/leadership and beach/culture interactions. It’s a dynamic model. Give an example from your work or life experience using the metaphor. Feel free to draw a picture using Wave, Sand, Beach to depict your example and then describe.

I’ve added a brief slide deck on "systems thinking" that is based on the work of Donella Meadows, a leading systems thinker. Systems thinking is not a new field, however in our highly specialized world few are introduced to the concepts. You will note the similarity of the wave and beach metaphor to the actual land water relationship in the first slide.

Systems Thinking Deck

We will return to this process in another exercise using a model more resonant with management consulting, however this process of metaphor and drawing frees up thinking 


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