Transforming Your Leadership Culture

CCL fellows McGuire and Rhodes replace the common and popular myth that change in organizational culture is beyond the reach of mere mortals. They offer a practical guide for achieving feasible culture transformation by helping leaders see how leading the culture and managing the operations are two sides of the same coin. The book provides guidance and resources that helps leaders decide: (1) what change is feasible; (2) how to set practical incremental targets of change and development; and (3) what are the tools for navigating the turbulent waters of the change process.

Acknowledgments xi The Authors xv Introduction 1 Part One: You, Your Team, and Transformation 1 Transformation: Can It Be Done? 11 2 Organizational Culture: Beliefs That Drive Behavior 33 3 Bigger Minds: Developing from the Inside Out 53 4 Engagement and Leader Logics 79 5 Personal Readiness and Leading Transformation 103 6 Headroom: Standing Up for Change 129 7 Engaging Your Senior Team 153 Part Two: Leadership Culture and Organizational Transformation 8 The Culture Development Cycle 181 9 Reaching into the Culture 211 10 Strategies, Culture, and Readiness: The Pattern in Six Case Studies 235 11 Feasibility Maps and Changeability 255 Appendix A: A Very Brief History of Developmental Theory and Leadership Research 287 Appendix B: Roots of the Headroom Concept and Related Methods and Tools 290 Appendix C: Helpful Sources of Studies on Intelligence and Brain Research 294 Glossary 296 References 299 Index 303 About the Center for Creative Leadership 317