George Ambler on Manager as Social Architect: Management Zingers #2

Management Zingers #2: George Ambler on Leadership & Social Architecture

Leader as social architect… was written by George Amber over at The Practice of Leadership. George always writes such fine and informative posts. This post outlines the idea of leader/manager as social architect based on the ideas of Peter Block. 

George outlines the 5 capabilities of the social architect: convening, naming the question, initiating new conversations for learning, sticking with strategies of engagement and consent, and designing strategies that support local choice.

George summarizes the list with the comment:

Looking at the above list it seems that organisations are failing in their ability to create social systems that encourage people to act on what matters. Instead organisation are creating systems of compliance.

Go read his post and add your comment.

David Zinger