cameron and green making-sense-of-change-management

Leading changeDifferent types of leaders have different types of role. He identifies threeimportant, interconnected types of leader: local line leaders, executiveleaders and network leaders.Local line leadersThese are the front-line managers who designthe products and services and make the coreprocesses work. Without the commitment ofthese people, no significant change willhappen. These people are usually very focusedon their own teams and customers. They relyon network leaders to link them with otherparts of the organization, and on executiveleaders to create the right infrastructure forgood ideas to emerge and take root.Executive leadersThese are management board members. Sengedoes not believe that all change starts here. Rather,he states that these leaders are responsible for threekey things: designing the right innovation environmentand the right infrastructure for assessmentand reward, teaching and mentoring localline leaders, and serving as role models to demonstratetheir commitment to values and purpose.Network leadersSenge makes the point that the really significantorganizational challenges occur at theinterfaces between project groups, functionsand teams. Network leaders are people whowork at these interfaces. They are guides,advisors, active helpers and accessors(helping groups of people to get resourcefrom elsewhere), working in partnershipwith line leaders. They often have the insight to help local line leaders tomove forward and make changes happen across the organization.155