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The five skills, in the author's words, are cross-cutting, collaborating, coaching, culture shaping, and connecting.
Cross-cutting: developing networks that extend to a diversity of people,
Collaborating: fostering psychological safety to increase team performance,
Coaching: having critical conversations that develop others’ potential,
Culture shaping:
The transformational model aims to embolden, support, uplift, and empower self-directed individuals and ignite group creativity through self-inquiry and cooperative inquiry.
Liz Korabek-Emerson • Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops
Every paradigm has its leadership style that suits its worldview. Impulsive-Red calls for predatory leaders; Conformist-Amber for paternalistic authoritarianism. In keeping with the machine metaphor, Achievement-Orange leadership tends to look at management through an engineering perspective. Leadership at this stage is typically goal-oriented,
... See moreFrederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
the traditional heroic decision maker. In the Task Force, we found that, alongside our new approach to management, we had to develop a new paradigm of personal leadership. The role of the senior leader was no longer that of controlling puppet master, but rather that of an empathetic crafter of culture.
Stanley McChrystal • Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Townsend was the first true, modern corporate leader (def: one who manifests vision, integrity, and courage in a consistent pattern of behavior that inspires trust, motivation, and responsibility on the part of followers, who in turn become leaders themselves).
Robert C. Townsend • Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
Leadership for this era is not a role or a set of traits; it’s a zone of interrelational process.