FIGURE 6.5 Optimal Leadership Profile

metrics, a common set of measures, to track operations, opportunities, and improvements, as well as to measure individual and collective leadership effectiveness. How effective are you? How do you know? What is your leadership ROI? How well do leaders communicate, providing constituents with an effective exchange of information?

“There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared, it is itself the great venture and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself” (Bonhoeffer, 1998). If we orient our lives on safety, we remain constantly insecure. If we choose the opposite and orient on our high

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.

TAKING STOCK How long has it been since your world was rocked to its core by something you learned? What refusal have you been postponing (Block, 1993)? What's the toll of not living your truth each day? Each moment? When it is all over, what do you want people to say about you and what you contributed? Where do your passions and talents intersect

To what are you attached, that if you let go of, would set you free? Have you opened your love to the great love? Are you are helping people you have never known and may never see? (Barks, 2004) Have you ever been introduced to the “you” that pre-dates you, that wants for nothing, that has nothing to lose, and that does not need development and nev

First, are you increasing the creative capacity and capability of your organization at a multiple? If you are not getting a 5-to-1 ratio of return on your time spent, your ROI is sub-par. Far too many leaders spend their time on the areas that provide a 1-to-1 return (or worse).

“When I shared the material with my team and showed them my LCP results, they were able to give me examples of my behavior.

TAKING STOCK Follow your bliss. If it brings you joy, do more of it. What brings you joy, brings you alive? How could you do more of it? (Campbell, 1949) What is your vision of the compelling future that serves generations to come? What if you started your next important meeting with the question, “What are we not going to tell the truth about toda