In the first two articles in this series, we described the four essential elements of the Leadership Mindset. We started from a definition by Bill Clinton. In the first article we covered the element of vision in the second one we discussed strategy. For a Leadership Audit, we constructed a vision benchmark and a strategy benchmark. In this third article, we will focus on engagement.
When you are reading this, you probably understand that MindSonar is a contextualized measuring system, rather than a standard test. If we compare it with personality tests, MindSonar is more like a thermometer and less like a box of rubber stamps. Now that we are mixing metaphors anyway, I would also like to point out […]
The Big FourIn the first article in this series, we discussed four essential elements of the Leadership Mindset. We started from a definition by Bill Clinton. In the first article we covered vision and we constructed a vision benchmark defining the meta programs making up ‘envisioning’. In this second article, we will focus on strategy. “Leadership”, […]
Clinton on leadershipWhat is leadership? One of the most concise and yet comprehensive descriptions was given by former US president Bill Clinton, in a Fortune magazine interview in 2014. “Leadership”, Clinton said, “means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it and staying with it until the goal is […]
Content oriented theories and process oriented theories of motivation MindSonar is a process oriented instrument. Many authors have distinguished between content oriented theories and process oriented theories of motivation (Graham and Weiner, 1996). Content theories A content theory is a system of constructs that are linked logically together, explaining why people behave as they do […]
As you probably know all too well, the meta program ‘Proactive’ is defined as ‘A preference for acting quickly and taking the initiative’ while ‘Reactive’ is defines as ‘A preference for waiting, considering and reflecting before engaging in overt activity.There is a scientific article by Bateman and Crant (1999), where they describe a type of […]
