Beautiful Leadership — Shining Eyes

You can see from the front pages of this site that I look to work with visionary leaders to see beyond their vision, to “work with them to bring out their unique gifts.”

Benjamin Zander is a legendary classical music conductor, he sees his role as “to awaken possibility in other people” and he knows he is being successful in this when he sees their eyes shining. To him, “success is not about wealth and fame and power. It’s about how many shining eyes I have around me.

Read on for Ben Zander’s amazing TED talk and no how I see that link to my focus on Beautiful Leadership.

I love TED talks, and Ben Zander’s is a favourite. I was reminded of it this week as it introduced the latest excellent blog by my friend Bruce Peters of Beyond Teal.

Ben’s talk is titled “The transformative power of classical music”. It is about that, and also about so much more. In his time with the audience, he leads them along a path of beauty and makes 1,600 eyes shine.

This then lead my thoughts to the frame of “Beautiful Leadership” and the collaborative relationship I am building with the wonderful Alan Moore of beautiful.business

Beauty is the lens through which Alan sees the world. As he puts it “beauty is the key to everything”. As is relates to business and leadership, he says: