Majesty model for Leading Without Authority LWA

Accountability is critical to every project's success therefore more and more people are assigned to leadership roles in which they have no positional authority in the Matrix. Commands and controls are simply less relevant in the 21st century because of increased outsourcing, flatter management structures, collaborative cultures, and cross-functional teams. The goal of leadership without authority is to get others to willingly cooperate and engage, rather than following authority directives in the Matrix. Nir Golan analyzed Glocal (Global-Local) organizations for understanding Leading Without Authority (LWA) methodology. LWA is a blending of personal and interpersonal skills that form the basis of a leader’s ability to impact, influence, and inspire others. Golan identified seven essential competencies for LWA as outlined below:

Majesty model

Matrix perception

Awareness & humility

Joined team

Empathy & inclusion

Solicitous vision

Trusted intuition

Yield to details

These competencies occur in two levels at the same time: Cross level- the matrix point of view and the Internal level- the leader for him/herself. The outcome of this research is the Majesty diagram: 

1.   Matrix perception: Identify the Matrix connections: contribution, cooperation, dialogues, challenges and routines. Matrix perception emphasizes the whole as opposed to thoughts focused on the sums of parts. The model begins with Matrix perception as the uniqueness of LWA model. The concept of leader reality is unique in its general and integrative perception and vision.

2.   Awareness & humility: Know your place and relevance in the Matrix. Share your thoughts and emotions, be authentic. Awareness is the total recognition of the experience we are going through, such as identifying what we are feeling, thinking or doing at any given moment and recognizing what is happening around us concurrently.

3.   Joint team: Start your actual leadership by being a part of a team. Assume that all are potential team players. The leader comprises a Joint atmosphere among those under his/her leadership, based on optimal inter-personal communication, a sense of belonging and combined responsibility. A Joint team leader leads with a holistic overview, looking at the situation as a whole, beyond each minute detail, but, sensing each detail as a separate entity, through containment and patience.

4.   Empathy & inclusion: Engage your people as volunteers. Lead them through empathy & inclusion. Empathy begins with the leader's active listening to the people's inner world, executed through and deep focus and intent towards the needs of the people. In order to properly be attentive, the leader can address the people while ridding his/her own viewpoints by including the other.

5.   Solicitous vision: Identify the Matrix most crucial needs- formal, professional, personal, business values. Build a roadmap from above by connecting all the relevant factors. A feminine leader will listen more intently to the woes of those around him/her, and will exhibit concern and compassion throughout his/her leadership. The leader according to Majesty model is more supportive of a socialistic, egalitarian approach. Regarding security, he/she places more importance on the value of peace and prefer to avoid confrontation.

6.   Trusted intuition: Listen to your intuition and use it for decisions making. Intuition is characterized by deep certainty and flexible thinking. This type of thinking is far more dynamic, and relies mostly on the leader. It is much more subjective than algorithmic thinking, which is relatively objective and logical. Trusted intuition comes from that same undefined section of the human mind, that enables it to act creatively and innovatively, and does not necessarily logical.

7.   Yield to details: Proceed to lead the change from inside (Hands-on) as role model and pacesetter. The main characteristic of the stage of synthesis and directing throughout long periods of time is paying attention to minutiae, or yielding to details, which is the seventh component of the Majesty LWA model. The combination of perseverance and paying attention to detail is unique among these leaders: the ability to leader over time, despite difficulty, while dealing practically with detail.

These seven competencies can be divided into three pairs towards one vision:

The leader for him/herself pair: 
Matrix perception + Awareness & humility = Dealing with the Being of the leader.

The network and relationship pair: 
Joint team + Empathy & inclusion = Doing Interpersonal skills.

The leadership pair: 
Solicitous vision + Yield to details = Leadership Dobeing: To do the leadership Being.

Trusted intuition is in the center of the diagram because it effects decisions making along LWA.

The Majesty model consists of the three basic characteristics that define Leading Without Authority (LWA) methodology:

·        Matrix perception - connects all the "dots" and yields meta-cognition.

·        Empathy and inclusion – interpersonal sensitivity to contain the other as a whole.

·        Awareness and humility – produces a high state of self-awareness and humble self-perception.