How to Navigate Collisions Between Leaders and Managers

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Leaders change things. Managers stabilise things. Stagnant organisations need leadership. Chaotic organisations need management.

Tension:

Tension between change agents and stabilisers is inevitable, dynamic, potentially dangerous, and often useful.

Ask people who love stability to go to the left side of the room. Ask people who love change to go to the right. Know there are tensions between these two groups.

Tensions in organisational life often emerge in the gap between change agents and stabilisers.

#1. Stabilisers apart from change agents are dangerous.

Stabilisers create predictability and efficiencies. In a changing world you can become efficient and irrelevant if you are consistent at things that don’t matter.

The ultimate goal of stable organisations eventually becomes self-preservation.

#2. Change agents apart from stabilisers are dangerous.

Change agents destabilise processes and procedures in search of innovation and growth. They transform organisations into fast moving machines filled with inefficiencies.

Eventually the goal of chaotic organisations becomes self-preservation.

Constant change or persistent sameness increases stress, lowers confidence, and decreases productivity.

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