Achieving Sustainable High-Impact Improvement with the "7-C-Butterfly Bow Tie"™ Model: An Innovative Leadership Paradigm for Positive In-Depth Transformation

Throughout history, leaders have played a pivotal role in bringing about positive in-depth transformation in different walks of life. In contrast to the artful interventions of helmsmen in the past, nowadays, many executives facing increasing uncertainty and complexity in their external environments...

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Published in:Effective Executive 2019-12, Vol.22 (4), p.22-32
Main Author: Schlevogt, Kai-Alexander
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automation
Charities
Gifts
Leadership
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Summary:Throughout history, leaders have played a pivotal role in bringing about positive in-depth transformation in different walks of life. In contrast to the artful interventions of helmsmen in the past, nowadays, many executives facing increasing uncertainty and complexity in their external environments and inside their institutions are introducing ever more sophisticated guidelines. They thus hope to standardize behavior and reduce risks as a result. Those imperfect rigid codifications of past insights, crafted in the absence of complete knowledge, are bound to elicit wrong responses in rapidly changing environments with many unforeseen events happening. Given the key role of leadership for institutional and personal success and the current leadership void due to abdication in favor of rules, it is high time to reconnect to timeless wisdom and ensure that movers and shakers again take over the steering wheel to avoid implosion or explosion at various levels of aggregation. The new "7-C-Butterfly Bow Tie"™ (BBT) model includes various components of leadership, making it possible for helmsmen to unleash seemingly unlimited individual and collective energy in the pursuit of noble objectives.
ISSN:0972-5172