Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership
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Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Mandate Capital—Blend It Before You Spend It!
Leith Sharp, Director of our Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership program, contributed as a guest blogger for the Walk of Life Careers website.
It’s helpful to think of mandate as a kind of capital. We use it in our organizations to get things done. Mandate uses the power of directives to push down the chain of command to execute out on what needs to be done. The official story goes something like – if you can get the mandate – you can get it done. The actual story however is much more nuanced.
Our work has unearthed a powerful relationship between the use of mandate capital and the impact on the social health of our organizations, which we will call our social capital. We think of social capital as the health of the relationships between people, the levels of engagement, psychological safety, trust and shared purpose.
Date:
September 12, 2017
Credit:
Walk of Life Careers
Author:
Leith Sharp
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