Leadership

10 Leadership Lessons I Wish I Learned In My 20's from Todd Wilms

Situation Leadership Model – Paul Hersey

Pyramid of Purpose

There are many ways of describing strategy. One approach, which also illustrates the hierarchical structure well, thinks of business strategy as answering the following questions:

Why are we doing what we are doing?

What do we need to do to fulfill our intended purpose?

How exactly are we going to do what needs to be done?

Who (or what) is going to make sure it’s done?

The Pyramid of Purpose is a graphical depiction of an organization’s strategic plan. By putting the various elements of a good strategic plan into a pyramid form, it is easy to see the “big picture” and relationships between different elements of the plan in a form that is easy to understand: The purpose shown at the apex cascades from one level of strategy to the next.
There are no hard and fast rules for building a Pyramid of Purpose: Use it to convey your plan in the way your intended audience is most likely to understand.

Birkinshaw’s Four Dimensions of Management

London Business School professor, Julian Birkinshaw, developed his Four Dimensions of Management framework and published it in his 2010 book, “Reinventing Management.”

Birkinshaw’s Four Dimensions of Management are:

Managing Across: Activities.

Managing Down: Decisions.

Managing Objectives

Managing Individual Motivation.

Each dimension consists of one traditional and one alternative principle.
You can use the framework to develop a management model that best suits the type of work that you’re doing, and the way that you want your organization to develop.