Leaders often encounter the need to transform organizations or society from low performance to high performance of from acceptable
performance to high performance. To achieve these purposes, the transformational leader challenges to revamp the organizational
culture or subculture.
There are 7 steps on how transformations take place:
1. Raises people's awareness
2. Helps people look beyond self-interest
3. Helps people search for self-fulfillment
4. Helps people understand need of change
5. Invest managers with sense of urgency
6. Is committed to greatness
7. Adopts a long range perspective
As transformational leader, Winston Churchill transformed Britain's society by raised people's awareness of the war by
make people attentive of the importance and values on how to defend Britain and his people to live under fair treatment and
justice.
He helped people to look beyond their self interest. He made his people in the parliament to look at the big picture for
the sake of people and the nation during and after war if he had agreed to sign the peace agreement and/or loose the war.
Can you imagine how the world would be like today if Nazi was all over Europe and people will live under Hitler's dictatorship
and cruelty?
Churchill helped people understand the need for change both emotionally and intellectually. He also committed him self
to greatness attitude that enable him to strengthen the society in which at that time was needed to be strengthen and to be
united in order to win the war.
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