The Tech Leader as Organisational Therapist
The Tech Leader as Organisational Therapist
[Inspired by “The Physician Leader as Logotherapist“, substituting “tech” for “medicine”]
The existential cure for what ails the Tech Industries today can be summarised in four phrases:
- Folks’ (customers’, etc.) needs come first.
- Right action and right conduct.
- Focus on needs and not money.
- Discover what life expects of us.
In his recent PBS special, “Surviving the Bottom Line,” Hedrick Smith documented how industries such as manufacturing and banking are sacrificing their employees and the needs of their customers in the quest for stock price appreciation and bigger dividends. (Smith 1998).
Further Reading
Smith, H. “Surviving the Bottom Line.” Frontline, PBS. January 16. 1998.
Washburn, E.R.. (2021). The Physician Leader as Logotherapist – Physician Executive Leadership. [online] Available at: https://indexarticles.com/health-fitness/physician-executive/the-physician-leader-as-logotherapist-physician-executive-leadership/ [Accessed 7 Feb. 2022].
Think Different
This is interesting. I use a different (existentialist) and yet equally valid set of principles to guide my coaching(/therapy):
– The client (team) is always right
– To describe something is to change it
– Every problem described is a solution
– Changing any part of the person (team) alters the whole person (team) unexpectedly