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Purposeful Leadership Deep Dive – The Three Perspectives

On By Dr Ranjan De SilvaIn Business, Communications, energy, engagement., EQ, IQ, Knowing, Leadership, Life, Personal Excellence, psychology, Psychomatric diagnostics, Purpose Quest, Purposefulness, RelationshipsLeave a comment

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses – Carl Gustav Jung

Over the years, I have worked with thousands of leaders, managers, professionals, teams and organisations. Regardless of industry, geography or level of responsibility, I have observed that the challenges people face tend to fall into three broad categories.

Some challenges are about understanding ourselves.

Some are about understanding and leading others.

And some are about understanding and transforming the organisations within which we work.

These three perspectives form the foundation of what I call Purposeful Leadership.

They are:

Purposeful Self Leadership

Purposeful People Leadership

Purposeful Organisational Leadership

Over the years, I have developed, adapted and curated a range of assessments to help individuals and organisations gain insights across these three perspectives. This article introduces the framework that connects them all.

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Start with the Self (Purposeful Leadership – Part 3)

On By Dr Ranjan De SilvaIn belief, Compassion, energy, happiness, hope, Leadership, Life, Love, Personal Excellence, purpose, purposeful leadership, Purposefulness, Relationships, Spiritual, Values1 Comment

Purposeful leadership starts with the purposefulness of the individual holding the leadership role. How can a purposeless individual help people and organisations to be purposeful? I am not claiming that all leaders are purposeful self-leaders. Many are not, and as a result, the people and businesses are not purposeful. In this article, we explore the notion of purposeful self-leadership. Given the need to keep these articles short, we will explore how to develop purposeful self-leadership and the complexities of such an aspiration in subsequent articles. In the first two articles of this series, we explored the two keywords of the concept of purposeful leadership: purposefulness and leadership and the three branches of purposeful leadership: self, people and organisations.

A useful question to ask at the outset is what is purposefulness and how do we know we are purposeful?

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