In Brief
The inspirational dream brings about passion.
The dream is developed from a collective, based on their beliefs, attitudes, and values. The dream created becomes individually owned throughout the organization.
Inspiration lends itself to emotional intelligence in developing the skills of self-awareness, self-management, and empathy. An environment of trust, comfort and fairness is built.
From that strength of leadership, the ensuing relationship leads to an ongoing sharing of the dream bringing a sense of family and community. The outgrowth is harmony, pride and more passion.
Combined these three forces produce a flow throughout the organization of individual and collective peak performance. Wonderful things happen.
Inspired By The Dream
Current models of leadership have failed to link emotional intelligence to visionary leadership. The missing factor has been the inspirational dream, the shared purpose of the organization. Individuals become leaders as they are inspired by the dream and driven by a consummate passion.
The inspirational dream, more commonly known as core ideology, is the basis of an enduring sense of belonging and identity. The core ideology provides the emotional link to the organization, thus harnessing individual emotions in service of the overriding purpose of the organization. Passion as it creates a sense of adventure is most contagious:
The outcome is an environment that facilitates flow; a calm coordinated environment that portrays an atmosphere of trust and harmony, where individual passions emerge to create intensity and invincibility where anything is possible, when action and awareness merge, when there is a total concentration on the task at hand and time passes unnoticed. This is chemistry that generates the essence of a sustainable and successful organization.
The ten best practices of leadership begin with character and authenticity. Leadership in its fullest expression is service. By heartily embodying the values we believe in, we are able to connect to others and foster trust.
The gift of leadership is found in the ability to align the collective into a force. A dream is shaped together based on passion ; co-creation, not dictation, is what builds strength.
The key skills of leadership are found in anticipation, mobilization and action. As the journey becomes more complex, learning, clarifying and directing become the sustaining job of leadership.
Because leadership and followership in full expression is passionate, maintaining balance and health is essential to pursuing the dream.
Summarily the 10 best practices of leadership are:
- Root
- Serve
- Connect
- Align
- Co-Create
- Anticipate
- Mobilize
- Clarify
- Learn
- Balance
Leadership is all about discovering what's unique about us. The job of leadership is to work that out and express it.
Leadership is the process of enabling us all to make a difference as we give our "special something" to the world.
Nelson Mandela's 1994 Inaugural Presidential Speech:
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate; our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
You're playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. And as we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others!
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