Persistent in the question, engaging in manner, true to yourself!

Claudio Aquaviva, Jesuit priest and Superior General of the Society of Jesus

Managers have a difficult task: They have to steer processes in a result-oriented manner and lead employees in a motivating manner - structure things and electrify people, soft and hard facts, business and relationship...

They are actually two tasks, two very different tasks at that. For some they are contrary requirements and if they are honest, many managers only feel really comfortable with one of them. How can this apparent contradiction be solved?

Persistent in the question means setting clear targets, analyse soberly, decide courageously and implement determinedly.

Who treats people as partners, who sees mistakes as human and wants to learn from them, who sees conflicts as an expression of different needs, which you talk about, in order to solve them cooperatively - he is surely very engaging in his manner.

Loyal to himself is he who knows and lives his identity and who thinks with his head and gut. Loyal to himself is he who does not ignore differences in opinion between them both, but gets to the bottom of them in order to be able to be completely behind his decision, no matter what happens.

With that the Jesuit priest briefly and concisely summarized more than 400 years ago what we understand with 'Genuine Leadership Performance', that is, real leadership, and what we strive for in our work as a sustainable development target.

In the process we always combine, in detail, exactly those components from the
very wide spectrum of our experience, which enable the optimal solution for the task at hand.