To be a coactive leader means to be agile, aware, and human.
– to (re)connect to a shared vision,
– to hear the elephant in the room named,
– to get from a tired being-talked-at to an energetic co-creative meeting.
Many companies seek to be more agile, customer centred, and innovative these days. Yet agile and innovation are still buzz words rather than actual practice within many organisations.
A coaching client has recently pinned down the one big hurdle for companies in their endeavour to respond to the need of being more agile and innovative: The “no mistakes” culture with its zero tolerance for failure is still predominant in European organisations. It’s frustrating.
More importantly, zero tolerance for failure is…
After decades of working with organisations, Peter Senge from MIT has concluded that the level of experimentation is a make or break characteristic for organisations’ long term survival. And yet, experimentation is something that large corporations in particular grapple with. It’s not for a lack of awareness that innovation matters, nor or a lack of trying, as the trend of creating human centred design groups shows. However, a closer look at those mushrooming Design Thinking departments in large corporations reveals that …