Today :
Today Vision
Yincom/Yangcom
The vision thing
LMZ Chs4-6
Third Wave Managing and Consulting (1987)
OD and Transformation (1991)
Most influential books (2001)
The vision thing :
The vision thing An organizational dream
What a desired future would look like
Look like or be like – vision vs. values
A vision must be:
Strategically sound
Have widespread support
Translatable into behavior
Reinforced through words, symbols, actions
Which process will work better today?
CEO/Leader visioning?
Leader-senior team?
Bottom-up visioning? Other?
Yincom/Yangcom :
Yincom/Yangcom Does the new firm need a vision?
What change processes would you recommend to improve the merger outcome?
What strategy, culture, structure, and reward systems need to be implemented? How would you do it?
Third Wave Consulting :
Third Wave Consulting Assess potential for action
Committed leadership
Good business opportunities
Energized people
Find a should we/shouldn’t we discussion
Get the whole system in the room
Multiple levels/functions even customers, suppliers
Less sell needed when 3 or 4 levels come to the same conclusion at the same time
Third Wave ctd :
Third Wave ctd Focus on the future
Images of potential rather than energy-sucking gripes
Visioning of preferred futures
People doing it for themselves
Consultants creates a learning climate not solutions
No one expert has the solution in our turbulent age
“A productive community is one where people find dignity, meaning, and security in contributing to the whole”
OD and Transformation :
OD and Transformation OT is about “gamma” change (?)
Belief that individuals must change for organizations to change
Launches into a review of recent OD and OT research
Much research shows that OD makes people feel good but does not improve performance