Using Action Trigons for More Effective Leadership

Mastering the Art Of Blue Leadership (Part 2 of 2)

Blue Leaders have exceptional environmental sensitivity and consciousness. As they process the change analytics in the terrain(s) of opportunity with their physical senses as well as with their intuition, their natural move is to engage actively. They possess an acute propensity to lead. The desire to lead is a natural aspiration in Blue Leaders. They are born to lead, just as everyone is a leader of sorts at birth. Blue leadership is the emergent leadership that is better aligned and aptly conducive to this era of uncertainty and permanent turbulent change.

Blue Leaders are devoted to perfecting the multiple skill-sets necessary to materialise their four characteristic Passions for Strategy, Service, People and Performance respectively, and concurrently to varying degrees. Perfection is defined by impact, and the ultimate perfection is attained through self-mastery in the Blue Leader when the Art of Blue Leadership becomes him.

Part (1) showed the development of the 9-Actions Pathway operating as the sense-making framework for continuous reality-learning by the Blue Leader. The 9-Actions Pathway is visualised here:

The 9 Actions bond and fuse with each other, like an atomic molecule, into a single entity with the 4 Passions and Orientations of Blue Leadership. The Action of Strategy which operationalise the Passion for Strategy sits front and center to provide the unshakeable visionary purpose polestar in Blue Leadership.

The 9-Action Framework provides the “sense-making” frame for effective leadership in this era of uncertainty and permanent turbulent change.

The Cornerstones of Blue Strategy have Society, People, Stakeholders and Analytics as their core preeminent fascinations. They are the nominal first steps as Blue Leaders embark on the expeditionary journey into the Terrain of Opportunity. Analytics actions are programs for factual discovery involving identifying, gathering, and analysing all types of data and information that are adjudged by Blue Leaders to be material and relevant from Stakeholders (employees, vendors, customers, regulators, and shareholders), People (non-buyers, service providers, stakeholders’ families, influencers and opinion-makers) and Society (environment, community, associations, power groups and their enforcers, interests groups and the general public).

Blue Strategy enhances and strengthens Blue Leadership by being squarely omnipresent at the centre of the continuous learning response to Terrain changes in the unconscious mindfulness of the Blue Leader.

The cornerstones of Stakeholders, People, Society and Analytics are firmly anchored on the Pillar-like architecture of Leading, Systems, Markets and Learning. Together, the Cornerstones and Pillars establish the constitution of the Blue Actions Framework to identify and characterise Blue Leadership. Through their behaviors in the 9-Actions Pathway, Blue Leaders are identified and recognised.

The action behaviour of effective leadership “comes from his passion” (John Maxwell), as illustrated below:

Blue Leadership behaviors are understood and better fathomed by their Action Trigons. The 9 Blue Action paths are organised as Action Trigons when crafted and “weaponised” for Blue Strategy.

Each Action Trigon is the pivot on a Cornerstone in its affinity with 2 Pillars. The Strategic Purpose of Blue Leadership is driven in execution by the other 8 Action Paths which organised themselves into 4 Action Trigons each composing 3 Actions. There are 4 Action Trigons, namely Data, Transform, Impact and Feedback. The Action Trigons enjoin when the Pillars become Trigon linchpins as they interplay in interaction to assure the integration, coherence and formation of Strategy during their unison navigation through the Terrain of Opportunity. Together in action, they generate the kinetic motivational energy for the dynamism of formless Blue Leadership in the execution of strategic moves through the 9-Actions Pathway.

Action Trigons of Effective Leadership

The Action Trigons are briefly described in this section. Cornerstones are highlighted for easy reference only.

1) The Data Trigon [Analytics, Systems, Markets]

The Data Trigon pivots on factual discovery actions involving identifying, gathering and analysing all types of data and information from the Terrain of Opportunity to produce multiple usable multimetric analyses. Systems are leading actions in the never-ending creation, recreation, and alignment of the appropriate organisational forms, structures, systems, and processes. Systems actions also design and deploy apps to leverage and maximise advantages unleashed by the Internet of Things (IoT). Markets actions aim at embodying real value into desirable products and services (research, innovations, design thinking, fabrication) and translate marketing efforts into sales revenue at affordable prices. Psychometrics in the Terrain are critical inputs to the Data Trigon through the interplay of Systems and marketing communications.

2) The Transform Trigon [Leading, People, Systems]

The Transform Trigon pivots on the creative production of purposeful actions from people and organisations. Leading actions also involve visioning, visualising strategy and inspiring, motivating, developing, supporting, rewarding, engaging and empowering People, promoting decent work as well as mobilising the critical resources (including funds, alliances, partnerships) for the necessary Systems actions to execute Strategy successfully.

3) The Impact Trigon [Society, Learning, Markets]

The formless nature of Blue Strategy involves continuous learning (formal, informal, cooperative, mentoring, coaching, neurolinguistic programming) from the Society and Markets actions in the Terrain of Opportunity. The Impact Trigon pivots on the delivery of abundant physical satisfaction and greater access to the opportunities of happiness through Society actions (corporate social responsibility and balancing profits, people & planet). Unique Blue Leadership obtains impactful outcomes through the empowerment of effective relationship management in Markets actions. The pivot of Impact is powered by the actions of adaptive systems and flexible structures meeting the demands of Society and Markets actions.

4) The Feedback Trigon [Stakeholders, Leading, Learning]

Blue Leadership strategy is informed by multiple multimetric analytics from various stakeholders and other sources as harvested by the Data Trigon. Leading actions are based on facts, knowledge, learning and grounded information. Stakeholders actions involve conversations, participation, co-investments, responsibility, partnerships, and ethical behaviors. Flexible organisational structures supported by adaptive systems are thereafter designed and developed to support value-laden innovations to address emergent and new blue markets validated by factual feedback from dynamic multi-variables in the Terrain of Opportunity. The formless essence of Blue Strategy feeds on a never-ceasing diet of continuous learning empowered by immanent aspirations and expectations of various stakeholders in interaction with the environment of the Terrain of Opportunity.

The individual and combined impact of the 4 Action Trigons in the decision-making matrix of Blue Leaders would depend on their mastery level in the Art of Blue Leadership in the deployment, execution and mindfulness throughout the 9-Actions Pathway.

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