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Leadership Styles for Managers

This document outlines seven levels or "action logics" of leadership identified through research: Opportunist, Diplomat, Expert, Achiever, Individualist, Strategist, and Alchemist. Each level is defined by how leaders interpret their environment and respond to challenges to power or safety. The higher levels like Strategist and Alchemist focus more on organizational transformation, dealing with conflict, and balancing multiple levels of social relationships. Effective leadership teams exhibit a Strategist culture by seeing challenges as opportunities for growth. Most senior teams operate at the Achiever level, preferring clear plans and targets.

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Leadership Styles for Managers

This document outlines seven levels or "action logics" of leadership identified through research: Opportunist, Diplomat, Expert, Achiever, Individualist, Strategist, and Alchemist. Each level is defined by how leaders interpret their environment and respond to challenges to power or safety. The higher levels like Strategist and Alchemist focus more on organizational transformation, dealing with conflict, and balancing multiple levels of social relationships. Effective leadership teams exhibit a Strategist culture by seeing challenges as opportunities for growth. Most senior teams operate at the Achiever level, preferring clear plans and targets.

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Seven Transformations of Leadership

By David Rooke and Williams R. Torbert

Presented by Hien & Angeline

Research & Action Logic

Article a result of survey basedresearch or managers & professionals. Action logic: How leaders interpret their surroundings & how they react when power or safety is challenged.

7 Action Logics

Opportunist Diplomat Expert Achiever Individualist Strategist Alchemist

The Opportunist

Focus on personal wins & controlling external environment People are an opportunity for exploitation Legitimize unethical behavior Reject feedback Externalize blame

The Diplomat

Focused on gaining control of own behavior Conform to group Avoid/Ignore conflict Supportive + help bring people together

The Expert

Perfecting knowledge Data and logic Focus on continuous improvement, efficiency and perfection Always think they are always right I dont do feelings, Ill leave that to Barry Manilow

The Achiever

Team orientation Open to feedback Concerned with meeting goals Inhibit thinking outside of the box

The Individualist

Abstract thinkers Interweave competing personal and company action logics Resolve gaps between strategy and performance

The Strategist

Focus on organization constraints and perceptions

which they treat as discussable and transformable

Strategist masters the second-order organizational impact of actions & agreements Adept at creating shared visions across different action logics.

(both personal and organization transformation)

Deal with conflict more comfortable They are better at handling people instinctive resistance to change

The Strategist

Three distinct levels of social interplay


Personal relationship Organization relationship National and international developments

Example Bavaria a CEO back in 1985 measured as a strategist

The Alchemist

Ability to renew or even reinvent themselves and their organizations in historically significant ways Has an extraordinary capacity to deal simultaneously with many situations at multiple levels Alchemist can talk with both kings and commoners

The Alchemist

Can deal with immediate priorities yet never lost sight of long term goals Alchemists individuals who live by high moral standards Mainly focus intensely on the truth
Example: Nelson Mandela

To Strategist and Beyond

The Strategist and Alchemist action logics is qualitatively May seek spiritual and ethical guidance from mentors

Mutual mentoring with peers who are already part of their networks

Seven Ways of Leading

Leadership Teams and Leadership Cultures within Organizations

The most effective teams are those with a strategist culture

The group sees business challenges as opportunities for growth and learning on the part of both individuals and the organization

Most senior manager teams operate at the Achiever action logic

They prefer unambiguous targets and deadlines, and working with clear strategies, tactics, and plans, often against tight deadlines

Leadership Teams and Leadership cultures within Organizations

For mature companies where senior management teams operate as Experts

Vice presidents see themselves as chiefs and their teams as an information-reporting formality

In creative, Consulting and nonprofit organizations are Individualist teams

The END

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