Leading others – communities and
organisationsPatrick Andrews
Webinar - 6th June 2012
Shanghai shops
• Western family – through window
Indian workers
Trees
We see our work through a window too
The quadrants
Individual consciousness
Leadership
Organisational systems and processes (governance)
Culture Relations with stakeholders (ownership)
VALUES (INTERNAL) STRUCTURES (EXTERNAL)
Leadership
• “If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de St Exupery
Culture
• Seek to foster “a liberated peer community” (Lynne Sedgemore, former CEO of Centre of Excellence in Leadership).
• “Get managers out of the way” Henry Stewart, Happy Computers
Governance innovations
• Lafarge (sustainability stakeholder panel)
• Rio Tinto (advisory board)• B&Q (youth board)
Forest Stewardship Council
• World’s leading timber certification body• Only body approved by Greenpeace and WWF• Stakeholder owned.• Membership and board divided into three
“chambers”.
Economic Environmental SocialEconomic Environmental Social
Riversimple
The Riversimple approach- re-think the whole system
• New car with new technology• New business model• New manufacturing model• New intellectual property model• New ownership model
Shared ownership
Enviro’tEnviro’t
StaffStaff
Neighbours
Neighbours
UsersUsers
Investors
Investors
PartnersPartners
Operating Board
Operating Board
Stewards Council
Stewards Council
Managers
Owners
Dialogue
David Bohm Nelson Mandela
Thinking about thought
“Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven’t really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content not the process.”
David Bohm
Shared mind
The potential of dialogue
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
Albert Einstein
And finally….
“If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together.”
African proverb
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