What is centered leadership?
This exhibit shows the five aspects of the centered leadership model and how they interact.
Becoming a centered leader
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How do you find meaning, maintain energy, build connections, avoid dwelling on mistakes, and find your voice? What comes easily to you, and what doesn’t? What’s the best way you’ve found to overcome obstacles, at work or at home?
Tell us—and each other—what you’ve learned so far on your leadership journey and what you’re still learning.
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Your leadership model is refreshing in its holism. And — yes — its implied feminism! Our work at Maio&Co over the past ten years has revealed a preference in markets, stakeholders, leaders and populations for a whole-life business model. Separately and together, these groups have been calling consistently for evidence of 13 values that you might call ‘human’ values, ‘social’ values or ‘feminine’ values. And they include the characteristics that Peter Drucker foretold as the defining skills for leadership in the 21st Century: cooperation, partnership, compassion, collaboration, etc. So happy to see McKinsey step up to the plate in addressing what we all know has been hurting business,society, and individual happiness, and what our colleague Doug Smith long-ago dubbed ‘financial fundamentalism’. Looking forward to your continued exploration and validation of a practical, holistic leadership model. Elsie
Posted Aug 4, 04:37 PM by Elsie Maio
One of the fundamental things that seems to escape people is that to be a leader, there must be followers…
Key things I keep in mind:
- Be worth following: The Boy Scout Law is a good foundation: “A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent”
- To lead, you must sometimes serve: Sometimes the best way to lead is to give someone the opportunity to lead you.
- Give followers room: Like plants, people (followers) will be limited by the room you give them to stretch.
Posted Jul 21, 06:00 PM by Mitch Blackburn
My experiences are that leadership is far more elusive in practice than might have been believed in the past. I have discovered that everyone has a capacity to lead somewhere, someplace. I have discovered that true leadership is not just about being at the head of the table, it is also about enabling those not at the head of the table to contribute in a positive and productive manner. This turns the traditional concept of leadership on its head. All round us, in organisations, in sporting teams and in our community we are witnessing shared leadership – people developing the ability to step in and out of a leadership role depending upon the needs of the wider group. The speed at which we can all access information enables decision making to be shared and will serve to increase collaborative leadership.
Posted Jul 14, 08:35 PM by John Coxon