Comparing Sectors: How Organizations, Teams, and Communities Raise Performance

• In Event: 66.019 - Exploring High Performance: Comparing Systems, Sectors, and Schools

Abstract

This paper draws upon empirical data collected in three sectors, eight countries and four continents to distill and determine the factors of exceptional organizational success. It introduces the idea of ‘Uplifting Leadership’ and illustrates this with evidence from the cases within this extensive research study. It argues that ‘Uplifting Leadership; is one of the few conceptions of leadership where the ends of leadership (uplifting people's lives) are consistent with the means of achieving those ends (through emotional and behavioral uplift). It outlines six factors that define and delineate ‘Uplifting Leadership’ and outlines how this form of leadership produces better organizational outcomes.

Author

• Andy Hargreaves, Boston College