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What is Sustainable Leadership? 4 Qualities of Forward-Thinking Leaders

Experience to Lead

Top executives, therefore, must develop new skills and competencies to advance sustainable development in their industries. It recognizes leadership as a process of influence and breaks down silos to combine efforts towards change and transformation. Sustainable Leaders Have Influence, Not Just Authority.

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. Yet companies continue to invest in skills development only to be disappointed by little or no difference in performance. This set of patterns influences your focus, decision making and thinking style. Too weak and the leader shrinks from being in charge and their own personal power.

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The 4 Types of Organizational Politics

Harvard Business Review

According to McGill’s Henry Mintzberg , it’s just another influencing process along with norms, formal authority and expertise. Organizational politics refers to a variety of activities associated with the use of influence tactics to improve personal or organizational interests. Yes, it can be self-serving.

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Unleashing Your Leadership Presence …

The Empowered Buisness

The BIG question is … How can YOU develop your own leadership presence? It’s mindset, attitude, personal power and congruent physiology/tonality all wrapped up in one. Owning your space is absolutely crucial to become a powerful, influential leader. Want to learn more about leadership influence? You feel it.

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8 Ways to Grant Intelligent Autonomy

Lead Change Blog

The key is to create “intelligent autonomy” that gives employees the independence and influence they crave, but does so in a manner that thoughtfully avoids the contradictions and pitfalls of a poorly executed delegation of power. Position power gives way to personal power with autonomy.

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Don’t Let Your Company Culture Just Happen

Harvard Business Review

To become more systematic about culture design, we use a tool that our company, Strategyzer, and Yves Pigneur co-developed with Gray. Participate in in-fighting and blaming, look out for oneself, have a personal agenda, sabotage projects. Care about personal power and prestige, only focus on quarterly numbers.

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