It seems only logical to start with Captain Ahab, but I’ll get to him in a moment. Last week I wrote about personal paradigms and how they impact our personal beliefs and actions. This week I will briefly tackle two types of leadership paradigms that I think affect organizational outcomes significantly – what I call the flawed leader paradigm and the entrenched bureaucracy paradigm. (Paradigms in individuals are the mental models we have developed over the years to help us make judgments and take action. In organizations, paradigms are the procedures and practices people have developed over time to achieve [...]