Shaping Your Impact

This final chapter explores how the character of our underlying encoded sensitivities and tendencies can fundamentally affect our effectiveness as leaders. It describes the prevailing ‘cult of capability’ that seems to determine how we currently select and elect leaders—a focus on what they do for us. And it advocates instead for a greater consideration of leaders’ character and the effects this can have upon us. Finally, it describes seven lessons for leaders on how to better manage these instincts. And it explains four consequences of this research for how organisations can best select and develop leaders.