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A Vision of Leadership - Competencies for Collaboration and Innovation
An Interactive, Self-Coaching Model for Team Membership and Leadership
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Conforming is what we do when we value following and implementing a plan. By conforming to these needs we become part of an organization and make a contribution.
This contrasts with improvising (see opposite edge) when we value leading and innovation. If we insufficiently conform we may improvise too much, neglecting our contribution and organization. Alternatively if we overly conform our improvising becomes stifled and we loose our opportunity to lead and innovate.
Conforming and improvising are synergistic leadership practices, optimally each being available as needed and neither being emphasized over the other. Combined, improvising and conforming contribute to the desirable leadership attribute, adaptability.
". . the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct."
- Mary Barnett Gilson
"I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land. I am but too ready to conform to them.
- Henry David Thoreau
"That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy."
- Freda Adler
