THERM Leadership

Thermometer or Thermostat?

A thermometer monitors temperature and a thermostat actively controls the temperature. But it is in understanding the difference in terms of your business life cycle, that you can gain useful perspectives on intervention opportunities to enhance organizational effectiveness and business results.

From a leadership standpoint, the difference is defined by Temperature Manager/Thermostat Leader. The Temperature Manager©, is one who has some amount of fluidity but operates within known or pre-determined parameters. His options are more scalar, with a focus on "how far up/how far down", but with limited opportunity for breakthrough creativity.

The Thermostat Leader© on the other hand can set the boundaries and is more capable or willing to operate on a vector-type scale, with both magnitude and direction. This means he has fluidity and creativity.

These concepts have implications for the management of the business life cycle, defined in terms of seeding, startup, growth, established, expansion, decline/maturity and exit. Depending on the stage, THERM helps you understand what type of intervention is required, and the type of leader required to handle the business development challenges confronting your organization.

Where are you on your BLC? What type of business intervention do you need and how can you make this change happen? Please comment below or contact us to better understand the opportunities to improve organizational effectivess and improved results.

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Anonymous on Monday, July 04, 2011 12:42 PM

Therm leadership---This is an interesting concept and is certainly an area that top leadership may consider as a means of avoiding surprises in their businesses through targeted stategic efforts that are well timed.

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VAG on Wednesday, July 06, 2011 11:11 PM

Agree, especially since organizations need both types of leaders/managers. The trick then is to evaluate the situation to better determine the strategy, and the leader who will apply the correct blend of THERM.

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kaizen consultancy on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 8:29 AM

Always portray leadership for the success of your company. Having a leader in the organization may result to a united workers.

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	VAG on Thursday, January 05, 2012 5:49 AM Agree..I suggest that the investment should be in "leadership" itself. That way, we have the unity at all levels. This coordinated energy is often the catalyst to an engaged staff.OrgStrengths's 3E Model - Earning Engaged Employees) speaks to the path to the end state...

KAM on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 9:27 AM

I agree that the investment should be leadership, however within any environment there is a need for both type of investments. Leadership is visionary but should also be pragmatic. Recent resaerch has shed intriguing new light on the leadership traits which mostly likely affiliated with sustained organizational successes. A great read is the best selling book "Good to Great: Why some companies make the leap ... and others don't" by Jim Collins


	VAG on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:27 AM KAM - great point! I agree with you that vision without pragmatism (action) means nought at the end of the day. Interestingly enough, Jim Collins in "Good to Great" indicates that the Level 5 Leader has humility, builds organizational discipline, seeks help (by asking questions), gives credit to others, takes responsibility for unfavourable outcomes, and ensures that the right people are on the team. That's a lot on building teams which intuitively makes sense. THERM Leadership puts the emphasis on knowing where the organization needs to be and recognizing that leaders must be "situational" (the action required based on stage in the life cycle). Thanks again for your feedback! Thanks again for your comment!

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