In a time of needed change, the systems and processes of the organization must be managed. The people, however, must be led into the adventure of securing the future for themselves and their organization. For those of vision, chaos can facilitate innovation. Leadership most often is not afforded the comfort of safe and secure surroundings. Leadership tends to find its home in the realm of unsettled, chaotic conditions.
Many leaders begin to long for the peaceful, calm waters along the bank.
And yet the adventure of change is always in the middle of the fastest water, with all of the uncertainties that come with such water. Change is the context for leadership as well as its intended outcome. Leaders are at their best when they are calling others on into the adventure of confronting rapidly changing contexts in which significant, needed change can occur. Adopt A Change Attitude Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric Company, is consistently venerated by business experts as one of today's great corporate leaders. In his leadership of GE, he has six rules that guide him as well as those that he leads.