Creating a Healthy Tension through setting your Values

The four core attributes for #OpenLeadership

The graphic illustrates the four core attributes or values of a leader who wishes to choose #OpenLeadership.

Now let us look at how these create a healthy tension by taking them into two sets of two

BRAVE and HUNGRY

Imagine, first, that we say we want leaders with the only qualifiers being that they are “Brave and Hungry”.

Energetically, these feel like strong energies, powerful, driven, passionate, the type of energies that can really energise and propel others as well as an organisation.

However, without balance, such energies can go too far, go to the edge of or even out of control, so resulting in a leadership culture that can become less than healthy, even toxic.

One company that comes to mind is Goldman Sachs. With many complaints from their younger staff about having to drive themselves to 80, 90 hour weeks, the answer from the company was “we already pay you extremely well, we will pay you more so you can keep working this hard”.

OPEN and HUMBLE

Now let us take the other two words as a group, Open and Humble. The energies we associate with these attributes are very different. They are calmer, more patient, gentler, yet also can be inspiring in their own way, through…