"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results." - Jack Dixon
"Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible." - Frank Gaines
"Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive." Schein
"New Ideas pass through three periods; it can't be done; it probably can be done, but it's not worth doing; I knew it was a good idea all along." - Arthur C Clarke
"It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things." - Nicolo Machiavelli
"Leadership is a purposeful relationship, which occurs episodically among participants, who use their individual skills in influence, to advocate transforming change."(c) - Michael S. Kearns
"Leadership is about articulating visions, embodying values, and creating the environment within which things can be accomplished." - Richards and Engle
Organisational Development
A basic law of ecology applied to organisations states that in order to survive, an organisation's rate of learning must be as fast as the rate of change of its environment! Leaders therefore need to constantly influence their organisation with the intention of improving its adaptability, productivity and effectiveness to meet future challenges. This influence is demonstrated by a leader through their design and execution of various organisational development (OD) initiatives.
Experience suggests however, that the diagnosis of an organisation's issues are simple in comparison to overcoming the resistances exhibited by staff to implement the changes required to overcome these issues! Starr works with leaders to help them to maximise their influence across their organisation by giving them the hard and soft skills to design and implement organisational development programmes, such as cultural change programmes or change management programmes around the themes of strategy, structures, systems or culture which will result in their organisation becoming more effective and adaptable.