Motivating Management Change
by Miki Saxon
How do you get culture-blind managers to wake up to its importance?
How do you get them to understand that just as there is no “I” in team there is no “I” in leader and that if they insist on capitalizing the “I” in leadership it will change to leadershIt?
In other words is there a way to motivate managers to change their MAP if the “I” is a function of inexperience or ignorance as opposed to entitlement and willfulness?
A useful 2×4 to accomplish this is vested self-interest (VSI) as manifested in the MyCFF mantra so popular today—my compensation, my career path, my future.
It is amazing how much a person is willing to change when those changes further their own goals—even as far as changing “I” to “i.”
Click vested self-interest for how-to details.
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