What is purposeful leadership?

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.

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.

Totally agree with colleagues that the term ‘purposeful leadership’ is a bit of a nonsense / a tautology - just the same as uphill climbing or downwards descending.......

... or "business intelligence"?

... or "business intelligence"?