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

Experience to Lead

It recognizes leadership as a process of influence and breaks down silos to combine efforts towards change and transformation. Once this style of working is embedded in the organization’s culture, innovative solutions can flourish and better address the climate challenges of today and tomorrow. Final Thoughts on Sustainable Leadership.

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. This set of patterns influences your focus, decision making and thinking style. High performing leaders score in the healthy range of Power – neither overly strong nor weak. 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

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. When you learn how to work with and control your life force energy, your leadership presence, influence and performance will skyrocket.

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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

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. This is where you have the ability to influence the outcomes and behaviors you’ve identified. Team behavior. Leadership behavior.

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