Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

By developing decision-makers with the qualities sustainable leaders share, organizations will create new ways of working that support the interconnected systems of business, humanity, and the global environment. Sustainable Leaders Have Influence, Not Just Authority.

Quality 52

Quality Long-term Short-term Leadership 52

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. 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. Other interest filters are oriented around things, such as systems, tools, money, activity, etc.

Motivation 100

Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Organizational politics refers to a variety of activities associated with the use of influence tactics to improve personal or organizational interests. Studies show that individuals with political skills tend to do better in gaining more personal power as well as managing stress and job demands, than their politically naive counterparts.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

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. People are the core of a great organization and the processes and systems you use to hire, promote, and reward them can be both enablers and blockers.

Company 12

Company Tools Incentives Participative 12

Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2016

Relatedly, supervisors who reported higher levels of empowerment were seen by their subordinates as more innovative, upward influencing, and inspirational. Position power gives way to personal power with autonomy. Given all this goodness, how can you craft intelligent autonomy, or empowerment done right?

Delegation 173

Delegation Construction Fashion Report 173

LDRLB

OCTOBER 13, 2010

[This post is adapted from my submission into the M-Prize, the world’s first management innovation award. This sudden infusion of power creates more problems. Power eventually produces pricks. Consider the “cookie experiment,” where researchers assembled teams of three and randomly gave on person power to supervise.

360-Degree Feedback 68

360-Degree Feedback Compliance Follow-up Power 68