The Challenge of Sustainable Leadership

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Jennifer Cohen

Sustainable

Many people today are talking about leadership. But what does it really mean to the longevity and health of your business?

To cultivate sustainable leadership, we must start with ourselves. We must:

  1. Understand our conditioned tendencies (patterned responses to stress, our bodies and minds);
  2. Lead from a place of center;
  3. Be able to operate in the face of the unknown; and
  4. Maintain a high level of integrity to establish trust with clients and colleagues.

Additionally, leaders must master the art of resource allocation. Twenty-first century leadership demands that we think about and treat people, including ourselves, as finite precious resources with infinite potential.

Leaders must achieve and maintain balance in and alignment of five particular domains of life: physical, mental, spiritual, emotional and civic.

Only when we replenish ourselves, become self-generating, maximize our resource and stay aligned in the five domains of life do we reach a level where we can begin to build real and enduring leadership.

Are you in condition to lead your company’s growth for decades? Are you up for the challenge? What are you doing to examine who you are and how you are serving? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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Jennifer Cohen is Co-founder and Director at Seven Stones Leadership Group
She can be reached at jen@meaningfulleadership.com 

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