Personal Challenge for the Unnatural Leader

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Personal Challenge for theUnnatural Leader

• Can You Become a
• Creature of New Habits?

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What Got You Here Wont Get You There!
Source Marshall Goldsmith, 2007

• What to do? Status Quo
• Organic Organizations- one that is responsive,
  acts quickly and in a coordinated way and can
  adjust and learn and grow ..Only organic
  individuals can create organic organizations.
  (Robert E. Quinn, Deep Change, 1996)
• What to stop doing? - Change our own habits of
  behavior for these complex times

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Unnatural Transformation Leadership
The Leading Edge Unnatural Leadership Ten New
Leadership Instincts

• How do effective leaders succeed?
• Ten areas of unnatural transformation leadership

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Unnatural Habits - Personal

• Refuse to be a Prisoner of Experience
• Ready and willing to change
• Be comfortable with chaos
• Expose your Vulnerabilities
• Acknowledge your Shadow Side
• Develop a Right-vs-Right Decision-making
  Mentality
• Multiple interests, perspectives and
  possibilities makes clear cut decisions
  difficult!
• Always a number of possible right answers.
  Flexibility is key

Dotlich, D.L. and Cairo, P.C. (2002) Unnatural
Leadership 10 New Leadership Instincts. Hoboken,
NJ John Wiley Sons
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Unnatural Habits - Team

• Create Teams that Create Discomfort
• Dont surround yourself with yes people
• Build teams with contradictory views
• Trust Others Before they Earn it
• Trust is catalyzed by offering it up freely
• Coach and Teach as well as Lead and Inspire
• Avoid temptation to just lead and inspire
• Be available to discuss challenges and be honest
  and supportive in addressing them

Dotlich, D.L. and Cairo, P.C. (2002) Unnatural
Leadership 10 New Leadership Instincts. Hoboken,
NJ John Wiley Sons
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Unnatural Habits - Organization

• Connect Instead of Create
• Connections and alliances
• Free exchange of ideas and information with
  allies and competitors
• Give up Some Control
• Strive for balance between control and autonomy
  for maximum effectiveness
• Challenge Conventional Wisdom
• Preserve culture while opening it up to new
  approaches and ideas

Dotlich, D.L. and Cairo, P.C. (2002) Unnatural
Leadership 10 New Leadership Instincts. Hoboken,
NJ John Wiley Sons
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Habits
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is
overcome by habit. Desiderius Erasmus 15th
century humanist and theologian

• Consciously developing new habits creates new
  brain pathways and even entirely new brain cells
• Jumps our trains of thought onto new and
  innovative tracks
• The more we step outside our comfort zone the
  more inherently creative we become

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Three Zones of Existence

• Comfort
• Stretch
• Stress

Source Rae-Dupree, J. Can you Become a Creature
of New Habits? The New York Times, May 4, 2008
(based on the work of Markova Ryan)
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Three Zones of Existence

• Comfort - Realm of existing habit
• Stress - Occurs when a challenge is so far
  beyond current experience as to be overwhelming
• Stretch- Activities that feel a bit awkward and
  unfamiliar

Its that Stretch Zone where True Change occurs
M.J. Ryan, 2006
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The Valuable Moment

• When trying something new, it feels awkward.
• Thats the valuable moment we call
• CONFUSION
• The moment we fuse the old with the new
• Leading to

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Creation of New Habits

• Brain organizing new input and ultimately, when
  the process is repeated enough times, creates
  new synaptic connections

• DONT STOP
• Move through the unknown to personal innovation
  that will ultimately transform you and your
  community

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Leadership Journey Question

• What will I have to do implement new leadership
  habits that support the implementation of the new
  innovation?

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• The measure of success is not that we have
  difficult problems to face, just that its not
  the same problem we had last year.
• John Foster Dulles