Case Study 6 (The Onboarding Challenge)

1.Effective strategic leadership depend on the situation, there is no ‘one right way’ because each organisation differs, and leader can’t use one, single approach to the different organisations and situations if he wants to do  job effectively. Good example for this is David who was applying the same approach to two different organisations and of course he failed. One approach could be very useful and effective for one organisation but for another one it could be disaster.

Today’s leaders must be flexible, collaborative, and willing to continue their learning so they could recognize which style he/she should apply in specific company, only one way of doing things is not enough.

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2. The organisation where David was working first is totally different from the second one. He didn’t know that same approach doesn’t have to be effective for two different organisations. He was confident in his approach because he has already had success with it, and didn’t want to adapt to  the new culture and develop new ,appropriate approach and of course he failed.  His style didn’t sit well with existing culture of the second company.  He didn’t  try to understand a small team and culture of the company , didn’t communicate effectively, didn’t explain what he was doing, didn’t bridge, he wasn’t flexible enough  so he remained outsider-entrusted which  was unacceptable for the company like Energix.

3.In this organization Gerry Robinson would try to establish effective communication with the employees and managers and try to find out from them what are the weak sides of the company and with their help and trust try to remove all weaknesses and solve the problems.

Madonna would make alliances, and adopt herself in the environment so he could get closer to the employees and  gain their thrust.

Also it could be very useful for the Energix company to apply work style that IDEO company had applied.  They should encourage creativity and team work but all employees have to be aware that there are some deadlines which should be respected so there must be some kind of discipline but not too much to destroy that creative and effective working environment.