Andy Wallace believes deeply in the possibility of a world where people with power use it to raise others up. But Andy also knows the dark side of power. He has interviewed more than 250 perpetrators of power-based crimes and worked with their victims to put the pieces of their broken lives back together. Drawing on more than a decade in senior leadership in the nonprofit and corporate worlds, Andy teaches organizations who they should give power to and helps them train their leaders to use power well.

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LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS

- Many of the ideas about power and the strategies used by perpetrators of domestic violence are used in other places of leadership (including religious life and corporate life).

- Power is used incorrectly when power is used to control people.

- Culture—whether empowering or controlling—is made up of five key areas: 1. Physical and psychological safety, 2. Trust, 3. Accountability, 4. Agency, and 5. Incentive.

- Good accountability is mutual accountability, where there is accountability between the leader and followers.

- At the center of an organization should be mission (the “what”), purpose (the “why”), and identity (the “who we are in the process”).

- The five components of culture surround the mission, purpose, and identity.

- The further any of these components gets away from the mission, purpose, and identity, the more poorly the culture will be expressed, and the more dangerous it will become.

- In between an empowering/safe culture and a controlling/dangerous culture is procedure and policies. This is the arena where most businesses and leaders function. Policies and procedures technically protect people, but they are rarely empowering.

- In a healthy, mutualistic culture, leaders try to increase influence with others instead of increasing power over others.

The Empowerment Target

QUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION

- What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? Realizing that the world is more broken than he realized. Initially, this came about by discovering the prevalence of domestic abuse in his congregation and around him while serving as a pastor.

- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: “A leader is…” Self-aware, intentional, and evolving.

- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? What is my mission, purpose, and identify in relation to the situation?

- What book would you recommend to leaders? Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown

- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Exploring themselves more deeply (mentorship, understanding their family history, etc.).

- As a general life principle, is it better to ask “why?” or “why not?” “Why?” but if asked the reason for answering this way, he’d respond, “why not?”

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