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 […]
‘Internal Locus of Control’ is, as you are probably well aware, defined as having a focus one how one influences ones circumstances, while versus ‘External Locus of Control’ is having a focus one how ones circumstances influence oneself. They most probably came from RotterThe locus of control meta programs are closely related to Rotter’s (1989) […]
As you know only too well, the meta program ‘options’ is defined as a preference for having many different possibilities, while its counterpart ‘procedure’ is characterised by a preference to use step-by-step plans.These meta programs are related to the ‘Rule/group conformity’ and the ‘Sufficiency/proliferation of originality’ subscales of the ‘Kirton Adaption–Innovation (AI) continuum of cognitive […]
