I found this remote beach called Butterfly Beach in Goa, India to film the next installment in the Dynamic Leadership Series. The Dynamic Leadership Equation looks at the integration of qualities necessary to be an effective leader.
Dynamic Leadership Equation
OR x TBR = DL
This equation makes no sense until you recognize that it stands for Organizational Roles multiplied by Team Building Roles equals Dynamic Leadership.
When I first put together the Dynamic Leadership training curriculum, I originally used an addition sign instead of a multiplication symbol in this equation. I was trying to make the point that an effective, dynamic leader must integrate both organizational roles (those based on policy – the power of position) and team building roles (those based on relationships – the power of influence). But a colleague of mine, Al Cole, convinced me that I needed to change it to a multiplication sign. His point was that there was a synergism between organizational and team building roles where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Then he went on to give this example: suppose a supervisor is really good at following policy. I mean he knows the policy manual inside and out. He can quote it chapter and verse. But he has no relationship building skills. We could give him a score of 10 for OR and a score of 0 for TBR. If you add them together, he has a total score of 10. But if you multiply them, he scores a goose egg!
In the same way, there are people who are really good at influencing others. They have great charisma, but are always violating policy – operating out from under authority. Or perhaps they just haven’t risen to a position of authority within the organization…yet. That person would also score a 0. Neither example can be considered a dynamic leader. Both OR and TBR are necessary. And when they are combined together there is a multiplication/synergism effect. That’s what makes a Dynamic Leader…!