Core Purpose & Traits
The central "positive core" of the MMoL: to make one of these in the world - Impact and Legacy.
What is a positive difference in the world / lives of others?
Yellow quadrant: building relationship, empowering people, fostering teamwork and trust.
What is collaborative? (Collaborative communities)
The first fundament paradox: balancing people/relationships (yellow) with this (blue).
What is performance? (or Drive results)
First step of Mindful Engagement: building self-awareness, setting learning goals, and adopting a "learning" one of these.
What is mindset?
The three levels of leadership analyzed by MMoL.
What are leading yourself and others, leading teams, and leading organizations?
The four essential leader values that surround the core. Name all 4.
What are empathy, drive, integrity and courage?
Blue quadrant: delivering short-term results, performing under pressure, and fostering competition.
What is drive results? (Robust results)
The second fundamental paradox: balancing structure/stability (red) with this (green).
What is innovation/change?
Second step: turning yourself into your own "R & D lab" through experiments and seeking feedback.
What is taking action to learn?
Leadership is not a position or formal title but a set of these that anyone can engage in.
What are actions? (or skills or behaviors)
This trait means "committed to doing the right thing even if it's not the popular thing."
What is integrity?
Red quadrant: designing reliable systems, establishing accountability, and optimizing efficiency.
What is provide structure? (Strategic Structures)
Over emphasizing the yellow quadrant can create a "happy yet under-performing culture."
What is collaborate?
Final step: using structured reflection to overcome biases and retain lessons from experience.
What is reflecting to retain?
The exact title of the 2013 article that introduced the MMoL.
What is "Developing Adaptive Leaders for Turbulent Times: The Michigan Model of Leadership"?
This value is about "seeing the world through others' eyes."
What is empathy?
Green quadrant: inspiring innovation, enabling change and co-creating new opportunities.
What is innovate? (Creative change)
Too much red (structure) can root out this green capability.
What is innovation?
A key tool in "Readying for Growth": the Reflected Best Self exercise.
What is Reflected Best Self?
Free 10-minute tool on the Sanger site to see which quadrants you have already polished.
What is the MMoL Self Assessment?
Risk and failure are described as "necessary ingredients" for this trait.
What is courage?
The MMoL is built directly on the University of Michigan framework - basis for the four colored quadrants.
What is the Competing Values Framework? (CVF)
The process leaders use to recognize and balance all these completing tensions.
What is mindful engagment?
Famous Ross example of a high stakes experience that forces navigation of all four quadrants in six days.
What is the Ross Impact Challenge?
In turbulent times, the MMoL helps leaders make tough choices with no single "right" one of these.