The second of this week’s recap posts on Social Movements. Enjoy!
Tribes in the organization: seeing the world in segments, one character at a time . The Big 40.
Exercise: take a piece of paper and put names next to each category. Use your organization or an organization you know well. This is personal, so don’t worry about the Data Protection. This is your Leadership Protection Act in operation. If you don’t know names, or you have very, very few, you are in trouble. It means you are looking at the organization from several hundred feet high from where a forest is a forest and you can’t see anything other than lots of trees. The list below is seriously biased towards the negative. I know.
- Mavericks
- Rebels
- Deviants (positive). Do things differently, have another playbook and succeed.
- GPAs (General Pain in the Back Side; acronym non PC)
- Contrarians, because they can
- Seems to see things through glasses nobody else has
- Sceptical for all seasons
- Glass always half empty people
- Hyper-connected. Good or bad, they spread behaviours, role model at a scale, set mountains on fire and multiply anything they get their hands on.
- Hyper-trusted. Multiple reasons, it does not matter which ones.
- Radicals
- ‘Change Agents’
- Bystanders
- Cynical by default
- Glass always half full people
- Activists, they do act, really.
- Volunteers, including chronic volunteers
- I told you so people
- Barriers/walls makers
- Ambassadors (of good things, but ambassadors)
- Noise amplifiers
- Defeatists
- Whatever(s)
- ‘Yes But’ to all
- Making-it-happen first, then we talk
- Noise buffers, decrease the corporate decibels
- What is in for me people
- Bodies, no mind, no soul attached
- Reliable, trusted, delivers, wow!
- Saviours (unsolicited)
- Saviours solicited
- The usual suspects who do 80% of the work
- Navigators
- Climbers
- Only One Agenda People (and it’s mine)
- Can count on them any time
- Been there, done that people
- Will never be trusted/should never be trusted
- Simplifiers
- Magnifiers