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Misguided Values are Not Supportive of an Organizations Growth

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Misguided Values are Not Supportive of an Organizations Growth

An organizations values can be easily contaminated with restrictive thought and growth if its caretakers are not willing to exercise the practices required to avoid encouraging what I call, misguided values. Misguided values are not only contagious, but also poisonous to a healthy, supportive and thriving organization.

In most cases misguided values within an organization are encouraged through its leaders lack of will to change as the organization changes. This action that influences this lack does not to have to be embraced by the organization’s entire leadership team for it to be effective. It only requires the embrace of a few of the organizations most influential leaders for it to develop into a very effective poison.

Misguided values are often supported by fear, control, envy, procrastination and lack of understanding of the true purpose in the organizations reasons and opportunities in growth and change. The most challenging opportunity that any leader can encounter is change.

Change is not always predictable. Therefore many leaders are threatened by their belief in its possibilities of lessening their control and contributions to the organization that they have invested what they believe to be the most important career days of their lives.

In this lack of understanding, along with all of the other weakening supports, these leaders are forgetting five of the most important rules of leadership.

• Rule #1 – No one builds an organization by themselves.
• Rule #2 – The life of the organization exists in its ability to adapt to change and grow in its process.
• Rule #3 – Leaders are not the primary life-blood of the organization, this honor exists in the collaboration of all of its employees.
• Rule #4 – Good leadership does not start at the encounter of change, it is developed throughout the journey of change.
• and Rule #5 – Misguided values, only encourage more misguided values.

In leading through these type of challenges within an organization the best of this organizations leaders realize that change is actually one of a leaders greatest allies. It encourages opportunities that may not have existed within the organization and develops new talents in those employees that embrace its possibilities.

How do you feel about misguided values within an organization? I’d like to know….

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