The Ultimate Leadership Excellence Questions
Ultimately the leader during and finally at the end of his/her leadership career must be able to answer in the affirmative to the following five ultimate Leadership Excellence Questions:
• Have I retained my well-being/health in all Domains of my
Being / Becoming, e.g. physically, psychologically, spiritually? • Am I still with those who are supposed to be close to me?
• Have I been able to live my chosen values with integrity?
• Have I used my talents well and appropriately?
• Have I left an enduring, meaningful legacy? Conclusion
Without a Leadership Excellence framework an organisation’s leadership cannot make a difference. They would not even know what difference to make. Leadership Excellence is two-dimensional in make-up. Leadership Excellence = Ethical Leadership x Leadership Performance. This article dealt with Leadership Performance Excellence, the one dimension of Leadership Excellence, against the backdrop of Ethical Leadership by proposing a Leadership Performance Excellence framework.
Four themes were explored: a Balanced
Scorecard of Leader Performance Excellence; Leadership under-performance at an individual level – Leadership Burnout and Derailment; Leadership under-performance at an organisational level – Toxic leadership; and the Ultimate Leadership Excellence Questions.
The proposed Balanced Scorecard of Leadership Performance Excellence consists of four dimensions: Dimension 1: A thriving, sustainable organisation; Dimension 2: Effective leadership execution; Dimension 3: Leadership talent growth – Own and Others; and Dimension 4: Stakeholder legitimacy/ credibility.
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