Organic Strategy Paper

This Organic strategy would be very effective with Organic planning would work in the GE environment because it meets the following criteria.

1. The vision for your organization and its stakeholders applies to a large group of people, and might take a very long time to achieve.

2. The effort to achieve the vision might involve lots of very diverse people.

3. The culture of the organization is quite averse to conducting orderly, sequential activities.

4. The role of vision and values in your organization is extremely important.

5. The culture of the organization highly values the working from the positive and telling of stories.

6. If your organization expects funding from investors or donors, it has confidence that it can obtain that funding without presenting

Let's look at each power and how it affected the company and it's culture.

Personal Power:

The definition of personal power, "a source of influence and authority a person had over his or her followers" (Firestone, 2012, para 5)

The employees at GE had no problem following Jack because some of his personal beliefs, such as truth, honesty and change. This core values really resonated with the employees of GE and they believed in him because of it. This affected the culture in GE, in that the employees felt that they could finally emulate their leader, vs the old leaders of GE didn't foster this kind of core values.

When Jack Welch talks how his personal power on his employees he states, "Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion" (Davis 2). Again, this was something very different from the culture of GE, the employees were seeing passion and drive. This resonated throughout the company and employees pushed harder to achieve Jack's vision.

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