Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

TAKING STOCK Doesn't everything die at last and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life (Mary Oliver, 1990)? What's worthy of your life's blood? What must you be about with your life, else you are living someone else's life? What would be lost in the world if you were to deny your purpose? What would you do

TAKING STOCK When was that last time you risked it all to become way more than you are now? How do you get in your own way? Are you waiting for others to give you permission to be great? If you were living life more authentically, what would you be doing differently? How would you be different? Are you are prepared to live in the world with its har

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

“We usually ask for more of our leaders than what they have been developed to do” (Kegan and Lahey, 2009).

Performance, individually and collectively, is always consistent with our level of consciousness. We cannot perform at a higher level of performance than is built into our operating system. Likewise, an organization cannot perform at a higher level of performance than the collective consciousness of its leadership.

The Uganda Rural Training and Development (URDT) organization was founded. Mwalimu Musheshe, Ephrem Rutaboa, and Silvana Veltkamp, a small group of dedicated young leaders, decided to do something about the economic and social development needs of Africa. They concluded that most approaches to rural development were failing because they were not ad

Steve Jobs said: “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. This practice requires that we trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life

What is the deeper intuitive knowing, hunch, or gut sense that you must now usher in through your leadership? What is it that most wants and needs to happen in the system in which you find yourself?

FIGURE 7.1 The Six Systems