The Butterfly Effect On Leadership
A values based approach is emerging among leadership around the world as a pathway to a more stable and sustainable human future. Values are a shorthand method of describing individual and collections motivations. A focus on values takes us to a level of awareness beyond the short term and facilitates insight into meaning and purpose.
The requirements of leadership are undergoing major transformation. Leaders are called to shift from delivering on short-term goals to positioning for long-range wider potential; from directing day-to-day to enabling environments of possibilities, and moving away from rules and procedures toward coordinated action through shared visions and values.
The culture of a group of individuals who share a common identity is a reflection of the values and beliefs of the leaders and the institutional legacy of past leaders. Who you are as a leader… the values you embrace, and the beliefs you hold are automatically transmitted to the group through your words, behaviours and actions. This is why organizational transformation begins with the personal transformation of the leaders. If the leaders don’t change, the culture won’t change.
Translated into mass culture, the butterfly effect has become a metaphor for the existence of seemingly insignificant moments that alter history and shape destinies.
Typically unrecognized at first, they create threads of cause and effect that appear obvious in retrospect, changing the course of a human life or rippling through the global economy.
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