In my work helping to build high-performing teams at a diverse range of organizations, I have found that there is nothing that bonds a team quite like being on an authentic transformational journey. It’s invigorating to experience a continuous improvement journey with others on the same team, and to feel the joy of camaraderie and shared aspiration.

Leading organizational growth as a transformational journey

There is a delicate dance of leadership that is required to steer a team’s transformational journey. At this juncture, a leader needs to plant a stake in the potential future—what I call the “ideal future state”—a shared vision for the upper reaches of the team’s potential. This is not a static point in time; the future is open, flexible, and fluid. This may sound paradoxical. But the open-ended, unformed nature of that ideal future state doesn’t in any way prevent you from bearing witness to its potential and actively calling it into being through everything you’re doing in the present.

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