Work Week | Transformational Pace

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Transformational leader: what does it take to be one? | Francesca Cassidy talks to a broad range of people operating in the digital transformation space. Here’s a snippet:

“Conscious pace-planning is an essential responsibility for one very simple reason: some things should be done fast while others need to have more time made for them,” says Ms [Sophie] Devonshire [chief executive of strategic consultancy Caffeine].

“One global CEO of a multinational organisation I spoke to said that if you are initiating change, assume a year for every layer in the organisation to transform.”

This reminds me of Stewart Brand’s notion of Pace Layering, depicted below. Fashion changes very quickly, and commerce less so. At the base, nature is slow.

Replace these with layers in an organization, and you’ll realize that some parts of an organization move slowly, like the financial end of things, while the technologists and marketing people are likely moving more quickly. But like any group of people marching toward the horizon, the pace is defined by the slowest moving.