Barriers to progress

"Consciously or unconsciously, leaders put in place structures and practices that make sense to them. These structures and practices correspond to their way of dealing with the world and means that an organisation cannot evolve beyond it's leadership's stage of development."

Hermanni Hyytiala 

Here are some barriers to progress that correspond with the way that many control oriented leaders deal with their world:

Perpetuating a linear, directive, process oriented, bias...

Maintains busyness as the key status enhancing characteristic of the system*

Which reinforces an inability to create space for reflection, new opportunities and stopping 'old' things

Which limits the ability to define the new characteristics of high performance as context shifts

Which prevents agreement on the new conditions that need to be in place to enable these new characteristics

Which reinforces the 'snow blindness' of attempting to move in a 'new direction' using the same old ways

Which reinforces the safe and easy option: keep educating individual workers to navigate and / or accept the shortcomings of the system*

And the fundamental priorities and practices stay the same. 

* 'system' = the environments, processes, structures and resulting cultures within which individuals operate.