Apparently agreeing with Noel Tichy's analysis in The Leadership Engine, Truskie stresses the importance of developing leadership throughout the organization. Ideally, an organization will thus have a combination of leaders who, individually and in collaboration, implement both a directional leadership strategy and an organizational leadership strategy. He urges his reader to absorb and digest the contents of Leadership in High-Performance Organizational Cultures with care, of course, but also with some degree of critical detachment. Then, correlate his observations and suggestions with the specific circumstances of the reader's own organization. Leaders as well as those whom they lead must constantly monitor the balance of four aforementioned cultural patterns.
Imbalances are inevitable.
Although Truskie does not discuss it, he would probably agree that an early-warning system of some kind is highly desirable. The model he provides suggests all manner of ways by which to recognize and then respond effectively to symptoms of such imbalances. For the foreseeable future, change will be the only constant. Based in Dallas, Robert Morris is an independent management consultant who specializes in accelerated executive development and organizational growth. He is the author of almost 150 Business Nuggets and frequently conducts workshops based on material selected from them by a client company.