The Future of Leadership Development with Dr. Richard Boyatzis
In this episode, Dr. Richard Boyatzis, Distinguished Professor at Case Western Reserve University, shares insights on intentional change theory and how sustainable, desired change occurs at individual, team, and organizational levels. He emphasizes the power of vision over goals, the role of emotional attractors, and the balance between performance and development cultures. Listeners will discover why stress hinders growth, how emotional swarms drive change, and the difference between teaching and true learning.
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Guest, Dr. Richard Boyatzis:
“We now have a lot of published research data showing that the motivating driver of change is vision. Not goals, not the discrepancy between your real life and your ideal. It's actual vision, sense of purpose, sense of meaning, the big picture. And that in our collectives, whether it’s families or couples or organizations, communities, or countries, it’s the shared vision...
And when I say vision is a motivator of change, I mean at the physiological level, and that’s what we’ve shown in a bunch of these studies. That leads to the third point of distinction—change doesn’t happen in a linear way. You have what are called moments of tipping points. And I contend in intentional change theory that these are driven by two attractors: the positive emotional attractor and the negative emotional attractor. If you’re always focusing on the negative, you close people down. If you engage their sense of vision and purpose, you open them up to change.”
Boyatzis is a Distinguished University Professor at CWRU, as well as a professor in the Departments of organizational behavior, psychology, and cognitive science. Boyatzis has won many awards at Case Western Reserve for research, teaching, and service. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Association for Psychological Sciences. Click here to read more about Dr. Richard Boyatzis.
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