Is Intentional Disruption Part of Your Corporate Culture?

In part three of the interview with Kim Baillie and Jamie Wadly, we discover practical tactics for building a disruptive corporate culture. One of the things that stops leaders from building that kind of culture is distractions. Many executives believe they have to solve every day problems for their teams, departments or divisions on a daily basis. Being a problem solver pulls executives away from focusing on picture strategy. For many executives, they may be the most talented on their team or division. Therefore, it appears to be efficient for them to solve problems for their people. At the same time, their people become dependent on their problem solving capacities. This can lead to frustration for leadership. They may feel they are constantly putting out fires. That leads them to believe their people are not ready for breakthrough initiatives that can give the organization a competitive edge. They attempt to solve that problem by bringing in a new employee who will have a fresh perspective. The hope is the new person will change the corporate culture. Yet, that rarely works. The new hire eventually gets sucked into the prevailing culture. Needless to say, this kind of environment is rarely conducive for disruptive strategies. In the interview, we took a deep dive into counterintuitive tactics for building a nimble enterprise that solves problems without input from leadership. I used real world situations from my experience as a chief operating officer to illustrate how to transform culture from dependent staff and management to self contained. In fact, they became so self contained they told the president and I to go away and work on big picture strategies. And that allowed us to grow at unprecedented rates and add new services that may have appeared disruptive in the past. Do not miss my series of videos on the Disruptive Leadership Model. In those videos, I discuss how organizations use problems, chaos or disruptions to their advantage. Do not forget to like, reblog and comment. #disruptiveleadership #strategy #changemanagement #transformation #ceo #corporateculture #breakthroughs #thoughtleadership #mindset #highperformance #interview #podcast #traininganddevelopment #corporategovernance #disruptivethinking #revenuegrowth