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Jan 20, 2021 · To be a difference-maker is to set every goal with intention, create every strategy with integrity, and execute every tactic with consideration. Outcomes are always uncertain. The quality of your effort is the reward. Making a difference isn’t for everybody. But people like us can’t imagine living and working any other way.
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- Systems Understanding
- Moral Imagination
- Aesthetic Sensibility
The difference makers and their efforts appear to have been sustained by a clear understanding of the broader system in which their work is embedded. This systems understanding (Senge 1990, rev. 2006; Werhane 1999, 2002, 2008) involves seeing the system—or reality—pretty much as it is and is helpful in anticipating the need for change. It also incl...
In addition to systems understanding, the difference makers were guided and sustained in their work by a powerful “moral imagination” (Werhane 1999, 2002, 2008), which allows individuals to see the ethical implications of their actions and decisions (Werhane 1999). Moral imagination, according to Werhane, encompasses the capacity for self-reflectio...
Taylor and Hansen (2005) define aesthetics as being “concerned with knowledge that is created from our sensory experiences,” including thoughts, feelings, and reasoning that inform cognition. Aesthetic sensibility may be understood as an experiential way of knowing that is distinct from rationality, though some believe that aesthetics tacitly influ...
- Sandra Waddock, Erica Steckler
- 2013
Here are 10 high impact qualities of difference makers: Think of others first. Think beyond your self-interest. Build a fire of passion and compassion. Build a team that compliments your gifts in order to multiply your impact. Be positive, optimistic, and contagious. Be active. not passive.
We find that a set of pioneering social entrepreneurs, 23 difference makers, are guided by a distinct sense of hope and purpose to implement change and leave the world a better place. This hopeful, difference-making purpose that created meaning in their work and sustained their efforts is characteristic of "spirituality" as encompassed by both secular and non-secular traditions. We suggest ...
Jun 4, 2013 · The mindset is this: Great difference makers shift from seeing themselves as workers with an assignment to crank out, to seeing themselves as people with a difference to make. Here’s an example ...
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Jan 1, 2013 · We suggest that moral imagination, systems understanding, and aesthetic sensibility undergird the spirituality of these difference makers. Further, we elaborate on the specific practices that ...
