Collective Leadership Compass for Sustainability
Innovation & Wholeness
Dimension 5: Innovation
Nourish creativity/enhance system creativity
- Excellence - describes the ability to strive for excellence and bring in expertise as required (enacted through focussing on quality, continuous improvement, embedding high quality values, client satisfaction, impact)
- Adaptability - describes the ability to stay open to change, be prepared to venture into the unknown, transcend boundaries and adapt quickly to new situations (enacted through reflection, encouragement to take risks and beyond comfort-zone actions, innovative strategic cooperation, exposure to different worlds/environments, employee engagement, exposure to trends)
- Creativity - describes the ability to continuously nourish sources of creative energy, for oneself and others (enacted through fostering creativity, acknowledge new ideas, reserve space for non-doing, learning from mistakes-culture)
Dimension 6: Wholeness
Nurture life-enhancing patterns/ enhance mutual support
- Contextuality - describes the ability to consider a larger context of one’s action and be responsive to the needs of a larger whole – the organisation, cooperation system, society, the world (enacted through understanding immediate and larger context, research, facts and figures, opposing stakeholder views, different worldview exposure, integrating opposition, connecting to larger vision)
- Vitality (Agility) - describes the ability to create system patterns that mutually support and enhance each others’ life energy (enacted through creating a culture of mutual support, attending to a system’s level of energy)
- Contribution - describes the ability to define and regularly re-define one’s own and a system’s contribution to a sustainable world (enacted through regular review of one’s own strength and how to utilize them best, fostering the organization’s full commitment to all aspects of sustainability (people, profit, planet)
