Live Your Values - Excel as Leader!
In the dynamic landscape of leadership, the connection with personal values stands as a compass, guiding us, as leaders, through the complexities of decision-making and management. This intrinsic compass is not just a moral framework; it’s the essence of authentic leadership that resonates with our teams and stakeholders alike. And it’s not just that – In the research for their book ‘The Leadership Challenge’ Kouzes & Posner, highly respected leadership researchers, found that leaders who are clear on their own values delivered as much as five times greater returns for their organisations than those who are unclear on their values or not operating to any particular compass.
The Power of Core Values for Leadership
We’re loving reading the latest edition of The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes & Posner. They’ve been researching for decades now on how to make extraordinary things happen in organisations.
There’s so much talk all the time around organisational values and they’re important of course – provided that they’re real and not of the vanilla variety that we see so often accompanying organisational mission statements.
What’s really bowled us over is Kouzes & Posner’s research showing the vital importance of our personal values as leaders – in fact they found that leaders who are clear on their own values delivered as much as five times greater returns for their organisations than those who are unclear on their values or not operating to any particular compass.
Leadership and Beyond
Do you suffer form Hedgehog Syndrome as a leader? Do you know why you are a leader? Are you aware of your internal condition?
Kerry O’Keeffe shares some reflections on her learnings from listening to the great Manfred Kets de Fries speak.