OLD POWER vs SMART POWER
Here’s how SMART Power solutions help to overcome Old Power dynamics and pain points:
Old Power Dynamics
and Pain Points
Focus on Force and Control:
Relying on authority and control to achieve objectives, leading to resistance and lack of genuine engagement.
Short-term Gains and Self-Interest:
Prioritizing immediate results over long-term sustainability, often at the expense of broader, collective goals.
Siloed Thinking:
Operating within tight departmental confines, hindering collaboration and innovation across the organization.
Reduced Power through Low Team Cohesion and Effectiveness:
Difficulty in fostering a unified, effective team capable of high performance and innovation.
Prioritizing Structures and Processes:
Sticking with traditional methods that are ill-adapted to today’s complex and volatile world.
Pursuit of Status and Influence:
Seeking authority and recognition within the existing power structures, leading to reduced fulfilment and leadership authority.
Focus on Problems and Obstacles:
Main attention on avoiding risks and maintaining one’s position in the system and protecting the status quo.
Feeling Stuck in "The Game":
Adapting to conventional tactics for advancement, which can be exhausting and counterproductive.
Old Power tools:
Applying confrontational and win-lose approaches that are not adapted to navigating modern complexity and volatility.
Transactional Focus:
Struggling to create significant change or achieve desired impact due to the old power model’s focus on transactional results.
Smart Power Solutions
(SPS)
Intentionality:
Guided by a clear purpose, setting clear intentions to inspire and motivate towards common goals without the need for force.
Systems Thinking:
Encouraging a holistic view that considers long-term effects and collective benefits, promoting sustainable success.
Merging Power:
Embracing shared control to foster better outcomes through collaboration and cross-functional synergy.
Leadership Power Expansion:
Ability to communicate powerful visions, build cohesive teams, and create spaces for collaboration and innovation, enabling high-performance.
Relational Power:
Building trust-based relationships that encourage openness to new ideas and pathways, enhancing adaptability and innovation.
Integrity / Personal Power:
Aligning actions and communications with one's values and purpose, leading effectively and authentically without solely seeking recognition.
Possibilist Outlook – enabling Transformation:
Seeing beyond problems to envision and act on possibilities, transforming visionary ideas into achievable realities.
Exuberance Management:
Focusing on managing personal energy, building resilience, and working with greater ease to maintain momentum and drive change.
Agile Power Tools:
Using tools and practices that favour openness, collaboration and systems thinking and are tailored to navigate today’s challenges.
Legacy Focus:
Anchoring efforts in a purposeful legacy, building meaningful impact through one’s work and life, beyond transactional achievements.
