Organisational Orthodoxies and Heresies by Geoff MarlowÂ
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The way we’ve been running organisations has run out of time.
There used to be time to develop long-term strategies, devise operating plans, and cascade these down the organisation for execution. But under increasingly volatile, uncertain, and unpredictable shifts in technological, economic, demographic, political, societal, and environmental factors, by the time these traditional, well-considered plans are rolled out the world has moved on and the plans are already obsolete…
Senior executives cannot secure the future of their organisations by perpetuating past orthodoxies. They must instead embrace new ways of being, seeing, doing, and thinking which – for many of them – will feel heretical.
But then as Dame Helen Keller famously observed: “The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next”.
In this DD we will explore some current heresies in the domains of leadership, culture, and transformational change that must become orthodoxies if organisations are to thrive in an increasingly uncertain and unpredictable world.
Geoff Marlow is former Principal at a world-leading open innovation lab in Cambridge UK, and for the past 35 years has helped organisations throughout Europe, Asia, and the US to create organisational cultures of innovation, agility, and adaptiveness. His former roles include Global Leadership Team member of the Society for Organisational Learning, Specialist Advisor on Innovation Leadership & Learning with Duke Corporate Education, and founding Board Member of The Daedalus Trust “hubris in leadership” research foundation with former UK Foreign Secretary Lord (David) Owen.
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