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Two Tools for 4D Leadership

Posted on October 23, 2020 by James Scouller

This article proposes a breakthrough leadership idea.  An idea whose time has come.  An idea that makes it easier for leaders to lead.  An idea that also makes it easier for companies to build the atmosphere they want.  Not only that, it explains how you can apply this idea using two new tools.

But let’s start at the beginning…

I’ve learned that experienced executives find it difficult – sometimes impossible – to define leadership in a way that helps them perform their jobs as leaders.  Yes, when pressed, they can define it in an intellectual way.  But when I ask, “How much does that definition guide the way you lead and where you place your attention week to week?”, they say it doesn’t.  They don’t have a practical useful definition of leadership.  So what?  It makes it harder for them to lead.

But there’s something lurking in the background that makes it harder still.  I find that although leaders come up reasonable definitions of leadership, that’s not what guides their behaviour and decisions when they’re leading.

People’s Hidden Mental Model of Leadership

What’s guiding their behaviour?  Well as I explain in this video in my 10-part series on my YouTube channel, the Leadership Mastery Suite, it’s usually a belief that runs like this: Continue reading →