What is Full Sense Leadership?

Full Sense Leadership defines two key capabilities of, and dimensions to leadership.

1. Full Sense Leaders understand and accept there is a fullness to life that cannot be adequately reduced to, or fully revealed by analysis, reason or science. This fullness requires a felt-sense, an intuitive ability to tap the rich, flowing dynamics of diverse but interconnected systems - the global economy, ecosystems, social groups and media, and of our own psyches.
   
   Full Sense Leaders understand the power and necessity of working intuitive abilities with reasoning and analysis. They know they sometimes have to trust their gut feelings despite evidence or analysis suggesting contrary courses of action.
2. Full Sense Leaders are able to put things in perspective, and to make sense of the world. A Full Sense Leader is someone who sees and senses the bigger picture, sufficient to map and productively lead the way in troubling times.

Full Sense Leadership is the skill and ability to work the combination of head and heart, of logical and intuitive, of local and nonlocal.

Full Sense Leaders accept the validity of nonlocal awareness - an awareness that taps into the at-once fullness and interconnectedness of life.

Full Sense, Level 6 Leadership

We now know the elusive "X Factor" that determines outstanding leadership, scientific genius, or artistic greatness cannot be modeled, copied or comprehensively explained. If it was we would find it extensively covered and copied in management textbooks and NLP workshops the world over.

The elegantly simple reason the missing X Factor will not be comprehensively explained, or modelled, is that it is rooted in "the most profound discovery of science"1 - a discovery that paradoxically requires life cannot be entirely reduced to reason or analysis, or fully revealed through scientific inquiry.

Those who have the elusive x factor productively use life's fundamental paradox by working a poised balance of fact and faith, analysis and intuition, iron will and flexibility, expertise and empathy, head and heart.

According to Jim Collins (author, "Good to Great"), a Level 5 Leader "looks in the mirror, not out the window, to apportion responsibility for poor results." And, "looks out the window, not in the mirror, to apportion credit for the success of the company—to other people, external factors, and good luck."

A Full Sense, Level 6 Leader recognises that business success and failure requires looking in the mirror and out the window to others, for both success and poor results. They recognise business reality is due to leader and employees, to company and society, to the national and global economy and environment.

A great leader – whether in the arts, sciences, or business – has an intuitive awareness that extends beyond self and one's organisation (or field of expertise), to sense the zeitgeist ... and to lead beyond the zeitgeist, marshaling resources, people and potentials to form new ideas, products and services, and to maintain and grow companies, industries, societies and economies.

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1. 1. "Bell's Theorem is the most profound discovery of science." Henry Stapp, “Bell's Theorem and World Process” Nuovo Cimento, 29B, 270-276 (1975)