Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Michael C. Jensen and coauthors have created an ontological approach to creating leaders in which leadership emerges through spontaneous and intuitive natural self-expression. Key concepts include:
- The ontological model of leader and leadership opens up and reveals the actual nature of being when one is being a leader.
- It also opens up and reveals the source of one’s actions when exercising leadership.
- Ontology’s associated phenomenological methodology provides actionable access to what has been opened up.
- Students do not need to study ontology or phenomenology.
Ontological Model is terrific – it is very odd how they have the leadership student read word for word the slide deck and I do understand that it is based on the latest brain research. It just not very fun. The idea of the work focusing on three key aspects:
1) Integrity – Do what you say your going to do
2) Authenticity – Being authentic about your inauthenticity
3) Believing in something greater than yourself
These tree items seem to really work as a model. I have adapted some of their thinking into my model of work with clients. Much of the supporting research they use I have been using with clients before I discovered there work recently. It was fun to see we were going down the same path. Thanks for sharing this information on your blog.
Glad you found it useful, I’m even more glad you hear someone is using this research on actual leaders. Kudos to you Gary!