Open Leadership not only looks at the ships on the ocean, but to the ocean itself. A powerful difference!

A ‘company-healthy employee’ is doing the right things well. An Open Leader ensures company-healthy employees.

Scientifically proven (!): most negative stress (-> absenteeism, presenteeism, turnover, burnout, etc.) comes from... 'bosses stress'.

Our conviction: most positive stress (-> challenge, deep motivation, flow, etc.) comes through... Open Leadership.

Motivation comes only from within. The push towards motivation that comes from outside, goes in first... or remains on the outside.

Change management: people do not want to be changed, but give them real opportunities to change and they are delighted.

Results-oriented leadership creates opportunities to achieve results. Without this, results-oriented management leads to (much too) little.

Measuring is knowing. So he who does not know what he is measuring, does not know what he knows. Worse, if one is measuring the wrong thing, one knows less than before one started.

The much talked about and sought ‘magic’ of leadership does not reside in a wand, nor in a formula. It is in the being-present as a total person in the right situation. This is amply ‘magical’ enough. The good news is that you can actually develop this always further.

A total person can only partially be captured in concepts. These concepts are important. The rest is what lives.

An Open Leader is nor a wimp nor a bogeyman, but always at the same time the opposite of both.

A leader invites. An Open Leader invites forcefully (and thus knows how).

Less is more. Almost nothing: Incredibly much... if you are it. Therefore important: a quest for more and more yourself. Especially in case of a leader, this never ends.

What people are finally really looking for in a leader is the real leader and not the features of one. A real challenge!

Company-healthy employees and healthy business teams create a healthy business.

An Open Leader finds his strength in himself and everywhere else. The point is to learn how to look for it.

Only one style of leadership is good enough. Yours. That is not necessarily the one that ever kept sticking.

Situational leadership: not 'off the shelf', but from yourself. Real situations simply do not come up 'off the shelf', but through the door.

A leader is an Inviter, whether he/she is dancing a tango or exercising a leading position in a company.

Leaders don’t achieve their goals alone, but only through the group they lead. This 'through’ means something that rarely or never is taught in an auditorium.

Leaders who think they to have nothing to learn about leadership are a danger to the man at the workplace and even to the workplace itself.

You can only change now. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. From an Open Leader, change is required. A good leadership training shows how, from where and where to.

If management is all about strictly measurable results, leadership is about the bottom line and what leads to it.

There is no choice to be made between ‘inefficient leadership' and ‘efficient bossiness’. Leadership is less evident but it has much more potential. 'Necessary' bossiness is the result of the absence of leadership.

‘Solid’ provides the ability to be gentle without being slack or hard.

There is no choice to be made between ‘inefficient leadership' and ‘efficient bossiness’. Leadership is less evident but it has much more potential. 'Necessary' bossiness is the result of the absence of leadership.

 

 

These quotes are written by me (Jean-Luc Mommaerts). You can receive another quote on any weekday, at request.