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Corporate Cultures – Leader Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment

The Leader Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment represents a unique cultural blend that develops over a long period of time. These organizations often begin as Leader Initiated, Documented Processes Controlled and, as the workforce gains experience over time, evolves into the use of less prescriptive processes; deeming them to be an unnecessary administrative burden. These organizations tend to have a relatively high tenure among executives, managers, and employees. This culture set benefits from experience-based efficiencies with limited consistency risk but often suffer a lack of creativity as employees perform work ‘the way it has always been done.’


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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 60 – An Interview with Doug Moran, author of If You Will Lead

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Special Edition 60 – An Interview with Doug Moran, author of If You Will Lead explores the four key questions every leader must answer and the principles behind those questions every leader must embrace in order to be truly effective. During our discussion, Doug Moran, author of If You Will Lead: Enduring Wisdom for 21st-Century Leaders, shares with us his insights and experiences regarding:

  • the four critical questions every leader must answer
  • how a leader can identify who he/she is and what he/she believes in
  • how a leader can convey their beliefs and values to followers in a way that is constructive and understandable
  • what leaders must do to earn the right to lead others

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In addition to the outstanding insights Doug shares in If You Will Lead and this special edition podcast are the resources accessible from his website, www.IfYouWillLead.net.   Doug’s book, If You Will Lead, can be purchased by clicking here.

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About the Author

Doug Moran, author of If You Will Lead, is the founder of If You Will Lead, LLC, a firm providing leadership development and executive coaching advisory services. Throughout his career, Doug has served in leadership roles including several executive positions within Capital One Financial Services and as Virginia’s Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Resources. To read Doug’s complete biography, click here.

Corporate Cultures – Leader Initiated, Documented Processes Controlled Environment

The Leader Initiated, Documented Processes Controlled Environment is one of two anchor points on the Culture-based Work Performance Model. Subsequently, organizations aligned with this culture set represent the highest level of work consistency and efficiency while incurring the greatest degree of risk in job satisfaction and creativity.


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Corporate Cultures – Individual Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment

The Individual Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment is one of two anchor points on the Culture-based Work Performance Model. Subsequently, organizations aligned with this culture set represent the highest level of engagement and creativity while incurring the greatest degree of risk in work consistency and efficiency.


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Corporate Cultures – Culture-based Work Performance Model

In, Culture’s Impact on How Work Gets Done, we described the profound influence an organization’s collective values have on the controls (individual knowledge and skills, standards and expectations, processes and procedures) and triggers (individual contributors, first line managers and supervisors, executives and senior managers) that determine what work is undertaken and the manner in which it is performed. Therefore, observations of an organization’s unique work controls and triggers preferences can be used to reveal many of the characteristics of its culture. And from these the benefits and risk factors an organization faces as a result of its culture.


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