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Obeying all of the rules rarely generates breakthrough performance because it does not generate innovative approaches. Breaking the rules randomly doesn’t work either. This is where intelligent disobedience comes in: knowing when and how to break, bend, or invent new rules for better outcomes. Espousing a higher form of ethics, intelligent disobedience seeks to surface hidden truth and produce actions of higher integrity to yield superior results. Intelligent Disobedience involves successfully countering the directions of management. This includes challenging, pushing back, and making suggestions to management that defend the integrity of your initiatives or department objectives, potentially against the expectations of a stakeholder. Like the seeing-eye dog program that embraces intelligent disobedience to train their dogs to protect and ensure the safety of their masters, organizational leaders need to know how to “disobey those in their chain of command” to "save the business.” 

Learning Objectives:

• Define intelligent disobedience in a project context
• Discuss the challenges of displaying courageous leadership through intelligent disobedience
• Examine the foundations of intelligent disobedience
• Evaluating risk
• Embracing authenticity
• Working ethically
• Learn how to craft compelling arguments to garner business support
• Propose a decision-making process for when you should “bend the rules” or alter processes – leveraging common sense over standard processes on an exception basis

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