Dynamic Leadership
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If you are what Jim Collins calls a Level 5 Leader, you’re probably also a Dynamic Leader. If you have what Stephen Covey calls interdependence, you’re probably a Dynamic Leader. If you have what Noel Tichy calls “a teachable point of view,” you’re probably a Dynamic Leader. If Carl Jung would declare you to be individuated, or Abraham Maslow would consider you to be self-actualized, you’re probably a Dynamic Leader. If you see your own response as the greatest leverage you have in any situation, you’re probably a Dynamic Leader.

Below are other criteria you can use to discern your Dynamic Leader potential.

  1. A Dynamic Leader is someone who has outgrown all forms of victimhood and tyranny including manipulation and coercive power tactics in favor of magnetic influence based on reciprocal engagement and confluent communication.
  2. A Dynamic Leader is someone who progressively clarifies and refines their own leadership philosophy and shares it eloquently with others.
  3. A Dynamic Leader is someone who serves organizational mission, vision and values instead of personal power needs.
  4. A Dynamic Leader is someone who knows when to lead, when to manage and when to stand down.
  5. A Dynamic Leader is someone who sees problems and obstacles as invitations to outgrow the perspectives that created them and to embrace higher perspectives to transform them.
  6. A Dynamic Leader is someone who uses Beginner’s Mind to obtain fresh perspectives.
  7. A Dynamic Leader is someone who knows the stage a developing leader is in their development process and engages them at the appropriate level. 
  8. A Dynamic Leader is someone who empowers others by engaging their greatness more than by instruction.
  9. A Dynamic Leader progressively clarifies and refines their unique point of view by integrating input from self-reflection, study, mentoring, coaching and feedback.
  10. A Dynamic Leader is someone who doesn’t need the word leader in their title to take ownership of their area of influence.
  11. A Dynamic Leader is someone who measures his and other’s leadership abilities by their ability to empower others.


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