ORGS 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Wrose, Information Broker, Structural Holes
20 Aug 2016
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Understanding how to leverage interests and power is an essential base for taking effective action in organizations. Role of the leader: fording coalitions, identifying and leveraging interest, negotiation, resolving conflict. Obstacles to change: rooted interest, that is hard to convince them to buy in. Stimuli for change: stem from shifts in dominant coalition, in power of stakeholders. Roots of conflict come from different and competing interest, that require political actions like negotiation, coalition-building, and the use of power and influence. Ask whos defining the problem and what gives them the power to define it, who"s supporting what solution and why, and how can i get an outcome that serves the interest of me and my group. That was a political decision means that was a bad decision made on the wrong info. Decisions to be effective must be political (good to bad ones) in terms of power.
