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Leadership by the Living the Values

Written by: Dr. Martina Violetta Jung

Article Overview: A leader's behavior is scrutinized every step of the way by his people. Whether he lives the company's values whole heartedly or not has a fundamental effect on how the company functions.

Leadership by the Living the Values

'There is nothing noble in being superior to others. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self;', says an ancient Indian proverb) That, however, requires a Leader to be willing to conquer himself first, or, as Sir Edmund Hillary put it: 'It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves!'

In 1963, the meteorologist Edward Lorenz claimed and proved that the flapping of a butterfly's wings in Singapore could effect a hurricane in North Carolina. In science, the butterfly effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behaviour of the system.
Your company is also a dynamical (cybernetic) system and therefore small acts can have major consequences. This is especially true for all human behaviour. If a leader lives and stands for the company’s values, so will all the people he or she leads. If leaders fail in this respect for reasons of lack of self-awareness, personal selfishness, greed etc you can observe how the flapping of the leader’s wings cause a hurricane of destruction not only within the company, but also with customers and society at large. So, take good cake of your company's values; define them diligently and live them every step of the way.

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