The Four Commitments
I Demonstrate Personal Character
II Set Direction
III Mobilize Individual Commitment
IV Engender Organizational Capability
I

Demonstrate Personal Character

The Precondition of Leadership
II

Set Direction

Purpose Made Legible
III

Mobilize Individual Commitment

Change Begins in People
IV

Engender Organizational Capability

Building the Capacity to Deliver

The model used by the National Management Association is derived from Results-Based Leadership by Dave Ulrich, Jack Zenger, and Norman Smallwood (Harvard Business School Press, 1999).

Leadership as Human Art

The philosophical foundations of this model are developed in the essay Leadership as Human Art — a practitioner account of how humanist leadership thinking translates into organizational transformation practice.

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