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What is purposeful leadership?

Louisa Baczor

In her latest blog, our Head of Research, Ksenia Zheltoukhova, discusses why organisations are trying to become more purpose-driven, and the leadership traits that are important in helping businesses to achieve this. What does purposeful leadership mean to you? And what other leadership characteristics are important for building a human future of work?

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  • Perhaps a more telling question would be "What is purposeless leadership?"

    "Purposeful leadership" sounds like a clear tautology to me. Perhaps "purposeful management" could be more usefully discussed, as we all know it's possible to manage like crazy with no purpose what so ever.
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    Hi Louisa

    I don't think this is an expression that has a great deal of currency as yet. Like Robey, I am struggling to see how someone can be a leader if they are not purposeful.

    The three interlocking circles in your diagram would seem to me to be essential to any form of leadership. I have tried thinking about what leadership might look like if one of the three were absent, but I don't think what you are left with is leadership. For example, if you take out "moral compass" does that leave you with an Adolf Hitler? No, because he had a very strong moral compass. It was utterly perverted, but his leadership was firmly rooted in his own obscene morality.
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  • in reply to Robey
    Hi Louisa

    I don't think this is an expression that has a great deal of currency as yet. Like Robey, I am struggling to see how someone can be a leader if they are not purposeful.

    The three interlocking circles in your diagram would seem to me to be essential to any form of leadership. I have tried thinking about what leadership might look like if one of the three were absent, but I don't think what you are left with is leadership. For example, if you take out "moral compass" does that leave you with an Adolf Hitler? No, because he had a very strong moral compass. It was utterly perverted, but his leadership was firmly rooted in his own obscene morality.
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