13.4. Core Skills and Relevant Models

Although the new paradigm is a strange and confusing place, many analytical managerial skills can be transported from the old paradigm and used to illuminate dark corners of this new world. Some generic functional competencies such as marketing, financial planning, accounting, and strategy formulation can, with a tweak-in-time orientation, be carried over intact. Other dimensions of leadership require much more new skill development. These dimensions involve making transitions, creating visions, exhibiting congruent values, and understanding the significance of process.

13.4.1. Transition Facilitation Skills

Today's leaders must know how to accomplish individual and organizational transitions, but this ...

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