Post from Internet: Leadership within the Sick Organization
February 23rd, 2010
"How do I make my way in an organization as crazy as this one?"
Unfortunately, this is a common question posed by our clients. Figuring out how to navigate the sick organization is often the single biggest source of stress and energy depletion among employees. And while our clients are leaders themselves, they complain that they often find it difficult to sustainably lead from a fearless, generative and intuitive place when they are constantly victimized by inconsistent managerial policy, organizations that lack a clear sense of vision and executive leadership that comes from a place of ego, depletion and compromise.
In a recent conversation, a client described a situation in which the CEO chose to publicly berate her for being late, while she was interviewing a potential new hire. Our client admitted that she was 5 minutes late passing the candidate over to the CEO’s office, however the cause of the delay was the candidate being passed to her late as well. Compounding the issue, when the CEO discovered that the delay had actually originated as a result of earlier interviews, he asked our client to implicate one of her colleagues as the original source of the delay. Think of this. The CEO has likely embarrassed the candidate, set up a dynamic where two members of his leadership team are potentially at odds with one another, and he has communicated that their time spent interviewing the candidate was not highly valued, at least not as highly valued as his own. Our client says this type of behavior is typical.
More at website: http://www.archosadvisors.com/blog/2010/02/23/leadership-within-the-sick-organization/
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