The Challenge
The unprecedented power of technological advances has created impressive value, and yet we often fall short of harnessing it to help people, organizations and communities thrive. The waste and loss of human potential persists. And too many individuals, teams, and organizations are stifled in their desire to innovate, improve, and make things better. ​
Exceptional value with thriving people is possible, but the path there requires rethinking of our organizations in a way that is truly different from what we’ve known.
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It starts with leadership — the kind that permeates every corner of every unit of every organization.
Leading Through: A New Paradigm of Leadership
The Leading Through Institute is committed to changing the work of leadership - everywhere - through deep learning. Deep learning that activates the soul, heart and mind to create thriving people and
thriving organizations.
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Deep learning is more than what you know - it is about becoming something new, something different. Deep learning is new knowledge, new understanding, new capability and new actions that allow you to become something better. Deep learning is about realizing - nurturing - your full potential, for you and your organization. Creating leadership that permeates.
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Because Everyone Has The Work Of Leadership To Do.
Leading Through: The Book
Leading Through introduces a new paradigm of leadership. While the old Power Over paradigm is fueled by a mindset focused on control, the Leading Through paradigm recognizes that the work of leadership is needed in every corner of every unit of every organization. Activating the Soul, Heart, and Mind to turn leadership into a strategic capability for your organization.
Our Approach
Soul
The Cycle of Virtue: Realizing the Strength and Power of Moral Excellence
The leaders people are willing to follow—and keep following—are trustworthy. They keep their commitments and consistently do what is right, because it is right, even when it's hard. Achieving that kind of consistency requires a set of capabilities that are connected in an ongoing cycle that produces virtue—the strength and power that comes from moral excellence. Great leaders live in this cycle, developing these capabilities and helping others do the same.
Heart
LIVE: A Framework for Human Thriving
Great leaders care—genuinely care—about people. They make them a first-order priority. They demonstrate concern and show compassion when people struggle. They develop empathy and use it to help people thrive in their lives. LIVE is a framework for doing so, for unlocking the potential of people through Love, Inspiration,
Vitality, and Expression. LIVE shows each of us what we need to thrive and what we can do to help others do the same.
Mind
The Leadership Process:
Operationalizing the Work of Leadership
People follow those who are competent problem solvers, who know something about the process of making things better. It turns out that the principles underlying that process look remarkably similar whether you're trying to improve a relationship, transform an organization or change society as a whole. That process—The Leadership Process—is clear, tangible, teachable, and repeatable. That means it can be learned and practiced by anyone, anywhere, in any circumstance.
A Modular Leadership System
The soul, heart, and mind of leadership thrive on both freedom and unity. Modularity is a principle of freedom and unity, a powerful way to activate the potential of people and organizations to accomplish great things. The keys to realizing the benefits of modularity are found in three aspects of system design that can be applied to any organization:
A Framework for Action
A set of governing design principles focused on generating innovation through commitment and initiative, supported by an enabling structure centered on teams that ensures sufficient freedom of action, with a system of accountability that vests responsibility for improvement in everyone's job description.
Visible Information
An approach to integration that is not built on a foundation of hierarchical authority, but one of shared understanding and information that is visible—not only available and transparent, but also known, understood, valued, and used—including information related to objectives, standards, strategy, and context.
The Role of Power
A set of power dynamics that recognize that there is potential power anywhere there is capacity for action—especially power in people, and power in teams—and that the total power available for action can be collectively expanded by generating and sustaining power through peoplerather than seeking to consolidate and exercise power over them.