You are a credible contender for the CEO position in an organization that
you believe has a culture that would flourish as an LO. The Board are a
typically traditional set of executives who have achieved their current
position being good at "command and control" and want to see that kind of
manager as CEO.
You are pretty sure that if you portray yourself as that you will get the
position and then be able to convince them to try a different approach
because the company is in trouble.
OTOH if you expose them to your ideas about an LO, you will make them
uneasy and they will likely pick a command and control candidate who you
know is quite good.
So you can get the job by compromising yourself and then make a genuine
difference, or you can stick to you honest set of values and let the C&C
candidate take the company down the shute....Keith
(PS this is a real situation and the C&C guy is having lots of trouble)
I am interested in your ideas regarding how this case should play out?
--Keith Cowan <72212.51@CompuServe.COM>
Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>