THE EFFECT OF WORLDVIEW ON STRATEGY
A major role of a leader is to create a preferred future for the organisation, community, and nation, whoever and whatever it is the leaders are serving.
Creating a preferred future always involves change, always involves people, and always is associated with anxiety change inevitably creates. As a rule, although it is acknowledged that change is needed, and is the only constant there is, it is also what we are most resistant and anxious about.
Over many years I have observed that often why CEOs tenure is so short is not because the CEO was trying to create change but because he or she was trying to create change but did not know how to navigate the inevitable anxiety associated with the change they were trying to bring about due, I believe, to the powerful impact of our worldview. This has also been my experience over 25 years, as the Australian CEO/Managing Director of International publically listed companies, as I have experienced this resistance to change first hand.