The Importance Of Conscious Leadership

Effective leaders can often have a varied set of skills, and no two leaders have the same leadership strategies. When trying to understand the key elements of leadership, we must realize that different leadership strategies have value, each has its strengths and weaknesses, and each can produce a different type of outcome based on the provided variables of a situation. Perhaps more important than the leadership theory itself is the role that we, the leader, play in administering that theory – employing self-awareness and elements of emotional intelligence to produce the best possible outcome for the organization and the people we are working with. Conscious leadership is one of many leadership theories that exist in today’s workplace. Mackey and Sisodia describe this strategy as a “way of thinking about capitalism and business that better reflects where we are in the human journey, the state of our world today, and the innate potential of business to make a positive impact on the world” (Mackey & Sisodia, 2013). This way of thinking implies, very correctly, that our actions have consequences that are larger than ourselves and our organizations, and that we must be conscious of the greater impact we have as leaders – constantly striving to be positive agents of change. Their implication is that when an organization places emphasis on these principles, businesses tend to outperform their peers while also creating wealth in terms of wellbeing for stakeholders.

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