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Exploring organizations in education, business, and sport that perform beyond expectations (PBE) Beyond Expectations An international research project conducted jointly by Boston College & Institute of Education, University of London
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Research Staff Co-directors: Andy Hargreaves, Boston College Alma Harris, London Institute of Education UK Team Alan Boyle Kathryn Ghent Janet Goodall US Team Alex Gurn Lori McEwen Michelle Reich Corrie Stone-Johnson
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Research Questions What characteristics make organizations of different types successful and sustainable, far beyond expectations? How does sustainability in leadership and change manifest itself in education, compared to other professional sectors? What are the implications for schools and school leaders?
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PBE Criteria Consecutive – Relation to past performance Contextual – Relation to available resources Comparative – Relation to peers Ethical
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Leadership & Performance in Three Sectors
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My job as CEO is not to make business decisions - Its to push managers to be leaders. Fiat
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SHOE buy.com
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Cricket Australia
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Tower Hamlets
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Walsall
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1. Destinations and Departures
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F1: The Fantastic Dream
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Organizations that perform beyond expectations aspire to and articulate an improbable, collectively held fantasy or dream that is bolder and more challenging than a plan or even a vision. Martin Luther King had a dream, not a strategic plan - still less a set of key performance indicators.
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F2: The Fear
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The experience of success is often heightened by the emotional memory of a previous failure, or the fear of one that lays in wait. Organizations that perform above expectations often confront failure, humiliation, ridicule and even extinction in a way that galvanizes their commitment to change. An improbable dream begets an apparently impossible challenge.
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F3: The Fight
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The impossible dream and improbable challenge of surmounting failure or avoiding extinction produce a response of fight to overcome or avoid obstacles, instead of flight to avoid them.
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F4: Fundamental Futures
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Long-standing organizations that exceed expectations (compared to new organizations like Internet firms) create an inspiring future by connecting cutting edge futures to a classic and honorable past. They bond change and tradition; they connect the destination to the origin.
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2. Progress and Pathways
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F5: Firm Foundations
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The seemingly sudden and meteoric success of high profile leadership is often underpinned by years of foundation-building by mundane leaders and unsung heroes to halt previous decline, develop better business models, build new relationships and create new infrastructures of financial, physical and human resources.
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F6: Fortitude
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Going against the flow sometimes requires immense acts of personal courage, strength or fortitude. It calls on leaders to dig deep, to summon something within themselves they may never have realized they had.
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F7: CounterFlow
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PBE leaders of organizations that perform expectations are prepared to run against the mainstream, and to move ahead not by going with the flow but against or around it. These leaders are courageous, creative and counterintuitive.
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F8: Fast and fair tracking
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Organizations that perform above expectations mark, monitor and manage their progress towards success. They use indicators and targets of progress and performance that are personally meaningful, publicly shared and demonstrably fair measures of what leaders and followers are trying to achieve.
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F9: Feasible growth
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Beyond the swift actions necessary to counter any initial crisis, organizations that perform beyond expectations do not try to expand as quickly as possible and take off too fast. They are built on sustainable growth.
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3. Culture and Collaboration
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F10: High Fidelity
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Leaders who perform beyond expectations keep people with them. Many of our organizations excelled and even turned themselves around, with long-standing staff members who had worked there for decades.
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F11: Fraternity
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Organizations that PBE engage with and support communities that have importance for them: the communities of origin from which they recruit their talent, the communities of practice of those who work for them, and the communities of support, of customers, clients or fans, where they are often physically located.
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F12: Flair, Flow & Flexibility
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It is not just teams and teamwork that keep these organizations aloft; it is the vibrant nature of the teamwork itself. Organizations that perform beyond expectations have cultures of creativity and risk-taking. They allow and encourage workers to have freedom and flexibility to innovate and play.
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F13: Fallibility Organizations that perform beyond expectations and their leaders do not get too big for their boots. They are confident but not overconfident. They make and acknowledge mistakes and they expect those they lead to make mistakes also.
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F14: Friendly rivalry
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Collaboration and competition are often seen as opposites. The gene is either selfish or cooperative. Competition makes us succeed to survive or be superior while cooperation harnesses our capacities to succeed together. Leaders that perform beyond expectations go beyond these ideological oppositions and creatively combine collaboration with competition.
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4. Drive & Direction
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F15: Fusion leadership
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Leading an organization beyond expectations necessitates a blend of leadership styles or approaches that are sometimes thought of as polar opposites: charismatic and diffuse; autocratic and shared; top down and distributed - defying the professed dichotomies that often define the field.
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1: The Fallacy of Speed 2: The Fallacy of Replacement 3: The Fallacy of Numbers 4: The Fallacy of Prescription 5: The Fallacy of Competition Five Fallacies of Leadership & Change
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Facing the Fallacies These fallacies of leadership, turnaround, standardisation, competition and results have led to transplantations into education of principles and practices from business and sport that do not reflect how the higher performers in those sectors actually operate.
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48 People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. -Leonardo Da Vinci
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49 Without stones, there is no arch. – Marco Polo
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