leadership summit 8 december 2016: john deffenbaugh - governance in the new world of stps

Yorkshire and Humber Leadership Academy

Leadership Summit 8 December 2016

Governance in the new world of STPsJohn Deffenbaugh

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Pebbles in the pond for the governance challenge…

1 Resource alignment

Readiness for Change – The Transition Curve

Shock Euphoria/minimalisation

Anger

Blame

Guilt

Depression

Withdrawal

Acceptance:•test•experiment

Action:•integration•new meaning

Numbness

Holding on Letting go Moving onFink, Beak and Taddeo (1971)

Discovery & learning

Pebbles in the pond…

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Resource alignment

Owning the problems of others

Model-435

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The STP is or are?

Before the Civil War it was said ‘the United States are’. Grammatically, it was spoken that way and thought of as a collection of independent states. And after the war, it was always ‘the United States is’… and that sums up what the war accomplished . It made ‘us’ an ‘is’.

Shelby Foote (1974)

Pebbles in the pond…

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Resource alignment

Owning the problems of others

3 Relationships

Building trust in a system

Bedfellows PartnersThe Voiceless

Fence Sitters AlliesLoose Cannons

Opponents Fellow Travellers Adversaries

High trustQuality of Relationship

with Proposer

Low trust

Low/ against

Level of Support

for Agenda

High/ for

Peter Block (1987)

Pebbles in the pond…

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Resource alignment

Owning the problems of others

3 Relationships

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