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The Four Powers System™
The Four Powers™—Keys
to Potent Leadership
We recognize that all human beings are
born with four essential powers: The Power of Intellect, The Power
of Passion, The Power of Emotion and the Power of Spirit—or Inspiration.
It is the rare leader who adeptly uses all Four Powers™. Yet mastery
of them is key to the most effective leadership.
Benefits of the Four Powers System™
The Four Powers System™, based on nearly 20 years of experience, study and calibration,
is a comprehensive and precise framework for personal and leadership growth.
Its features render it an inordinately powerful engine of leadership transformation.
The System:
- Offers logical and exact "roadmaps" for mastering
each of The Four Powers™.
- Provides a vast array of precise, customizable and easily applied tools.
- Is enjoyable and exhilarating
to learn and apply because it unleashes
vast amounts of previously blocked energy.
The
Four Powers System™, once learned, supplies
the skills to master virtually any leadership
challenge.
The Quadrapotent Pyramid™
Based on our observations of thousands
of leaders, we have concluded that
the Four Powers™ exist in a hierarchy
as set forth in the adjacent Quadrapotent Pyramid™. Each level
in the Pyramid incorporates the level below it. The most successful
leaders primarily operate at the higher Pyramid levels.
First Level Leadership—The
Intellect’s Ceiling of Mediocrity
Many leaders function at the bottom level
of the Pyramid. The characteristics of such leadership are:
- Exclusive reliance on the intellect to lead.
- Absence of passion, feeling and inspiration; style is dry and colorless.
- This approach virtually guarantees an achievement ceiling of mediocrity.
Second Level of Leadership—Passion
and Vitality
More capable leaders strive to operate at
the middle level of the Quadrapotent Pyramid™. At this level:
- Leaders have learned to bring their
passion—the very energy of life—into
their work.
- Leaders apply high-impact, calibrated
tools to ignite passion on their teams.
- The burgeoning passion generates excitement and drives success.
Second Level
of Leadership—Resolving Emotional Blockages
Functioning at the second level of leadership, however, has its unique challenges. We help leaders master these challenges:
- Passion can be blocked by negative emotional states such as fear, mistrust, self-doubt and resentment.
- The Four Powers System™ supplies a range of potent tools for transforming these emotions and thereby unblocking the passion.
- The released passion is then expressed through positive emotional states such as feelings of relatedness and exuberance. (Password holders click here for more details.)
Third Level of Leadership—Inspiration
and Deep Commitment
Only exceptional leaders function at the
top of the Quadrapotent Pyramid™. At this
level, the leader "brings
spirit in" to the organization, and is literally
"in-spiring." This “spirit" is
the unifying force that galvanizes teams.
At this level of the Pyramid:
- The leader knows the Five Laws of Inspiration—precise
guidelines for being truly inspirational. (Password holders click here for more details.)
- Inspired team members feel as part of a greater whole.
- Inspired team members have deep purpose and meaning.
- This lived inspiration generates profound commitment, even in the face of severe business crises.
We guide leaders in developing the Power of Spirit (Inspiration)
so that they and their teams may perform at
the very heights of their potential.
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