Leadership Coach for Public Leaders

Characteristics of an adaptive LEADERSHIP culture:

Comments?(0)

Heifetz's 5 Principles of Leadership:

1. Identify the adaptive challenge
2. Keeping distress in a productive range
3. Directing to ripening issues over distractions
4. Giving the work back to the people
5. Protecting the voices of leadership in the community

1. Adaptive challenge:  what people need, not just what they want. For social prestige, people may desire large homes or powerful positions, would even sell themselves or kill for them - but a true leader shifts their paradigm - to invest in infrastructure, or feed others around them, so that they will have a society to live in.
2. Not enough distress , and people become complacent, lazy, risk avoidant. Too much distress, and they start making mistakes or become frozen in the midst of crisis.
3. Planned, proactive ripening vs. reacting - sometimes the issues needs to be left alone, like a pimple: When it's ready, you take care of it. Before that, by touching it, you make it worse.
4. People tend to shirk their responsibilities - giving leaders more and more to do - this can be endless. If you toss the  work back in their hands , they begin to think and act differently. The unilateral dependency transforms to a living cycle of growth.
5. Protect voices:  people who confront various points for change, often get sidelined because they disturb the system. When you kill off the people who spark conscience, who stir the pot - because it's uncomfortable - then...Read More

Comments?(0)

The Multi-Dimensional Leader  

One of my students said to me recently, that people told him we should just change ourselves instead of trying to change others, and what did I think of that? I told him, that people said that because it’s easier to change ourselves. But we also have a responsibility to society.

I said, here’s a question, “Can morality be taught, or are you born with it?” He said, “Born with it – You’re either good or not, people can’t be changed.” So I said, “Well, what if we have a society where no one was born with morality? What if there are no spiritual leaders in that society?”

Moral War…

There is a moral war taking place in Thailand and the world. We are in dire need of leaders who are grounded in ethics and spirituality, who will address the real challenges, not merely those who care solely for their positions. We need people who recognize the overall trends of events, sense the deep needs of the people whom they govern, and have the courage to stand up to their convictions and lead the way.

There are an endless number of situations where the short term solutions seem so simple, but end up creating a miasma of problems for society as a whole. It is when the moral imperative conquers the easy way out, that we start to find our way out of the labyrinth. 

Often, action occurs...Read More

Comments?(0)