Keynote Video:
Presenters
Michael D. Molina has more than 20 years of experience as a HR executive in providing HR and OD strategy to corporate and business groups worldwide. He currently serves as the Chief Human Resource Officer for Vistage International, a worldwide leading CEO organization dedicated to helping executives improve their businesses.
Before that, Michael was the Chief Human Resource Officer for Brahma Technology and the HR Executive Vice President for Advanced Marketing Services, a book distributor, wholesaler and publisher located in San Diego, California. He has also held roles at EquaTerra, Marathon Oil, Mobil Corporation and Gateway, where his experience included functional expertise in HR operations to include call center and shared services, systems implementation, recruitment, training, employee relations, executive compensation, and benefits design and management. Michael was recently named HR Professional of the Year by the San Diego Business Journal and under his direction, Vistage has been named Top 125 Training Organizations and a Best Place to Work winner.
Dear Michael:
Thank you for your video description of your "new" leadership model. With all due respect, I am wondering if Visage and the CEO's connected to Vistage (in your membership) missed one of the most important aspects in an effective leadership model. Where is the systems thinking portion of the model? Where is the portion of Profound Knowledge from Dr. W. Edwards Deming? You identified a gap and then you asked the top leaders already in the market place for ideas about how to close the gap. The problem is the marketplace is where the gap is currently being created. I assert you need to look outside the current marketplace because that current market place is where the poor results are being created. The poor results are coming from the same old and tired Newtonian model of improvement of the individual. Real change and real improvement can only come from an embrace of systems thinking. It is, frankly the most important part and you never mentioned it. Why not? I predict it's because no one in your group of 20 even mentioned it.
The top 20 leaders represent only a small portion and based on your "new" model they share the same theory as the rest of the marketplace. That marketplace continues to deliver the poor results (the gap).
What is missing is systems thinking. You never mentioned it. You mentioned good collaboration, courage, good judgment, being a good role model, being a good team developer and motivator, being a change agent and being a visionary. These are all important characteristics of an individual leader but they can't make a significant difference without systems thinking. What is missing is a theory of Profound Knowledge offered by, for example, Dr. W. Edwards Deming.
Where is the systems thinking portion of the model? Where is Profound Knowledge? You will never be able to achieve significant improvement by re-framing the same old model into a list of individual characteristics. That same old has created these poor results.
Forgive my assertiveness but your “new” leadership model is doomed to failure without systems thinking. Am I wrong? Is it in there and I just didn’t hear it?