Issues &Observations: Awakened Leadership in Today's Organizations

Joan Marques

Wakefulness has yet to be widely established as a leadership style, but once fully understood and evaluated on its many advantages for leaders, their followers, and their organizations, it will get there.

Let's look at the concept of wakefulness as a leadership skill; examine some of the rewards for leaders and their organizations of applying awakened leadership; and consider some of the disadvantages of not applying awakened leadership.

Wakefulness, although practiced by various leaders, has thus far not been formally identified as a specific leadership trait. Yet if one looks deeper, it is evident that some leaders are applying wakefulness, sometimes partially and ...

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