Building shared vision results in intrinsic motivation
Leaders of high performance teams translate personal vision into a shared vision owned by the team. This creates the context in which shared consciousness can flourish and smart autonomy results in collaborative creation of solutions to complex challenges.
When there is a genuine vision (as opposed to the all-too-familiar “vision statement”), people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to. But many leaders have personal visions that never get translated into shared visions that galvanize an organization.[1]
See also:
- Smart autonomy is freedom to act according to strategic intent
- Leading like a gardener creates shared consciousness
- Shared consciousness maximizes availability of strategic information
- Extrinsic rewards can crowd out intrinsic motivation
The Fifth Discipline – Senge (2010), ch. 1, § “Disciplines of the Learning Organization.” ↩︎