Sovereignty and the City
Trinitarian Leadership to Transform the Community
by Konan Kalou
You cannot govern the city before you have governed your own house.
- ✦Lead from truth rather than from position.
- ✦Govern your household with a vision and clear rules.
- ✦Build an aligned business that does not burn out.
- ✦Mobilize a community without manipulating it.
- ✦Create institutions that outlive you.
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What this book will change for you
Our families, businesses and communities lack neither talent nor projects. They lack aligned leaders, whose inner life can carry the weight of the responsibility they hold.
This guide deepens the fourth part of The Architecture of Ascension and applies it to five circles of responsibility: the leader, the family, the business, the community and the institutions.
Ethics, decision-making, succession, civic mobilization: every chapter ends with a protocol you can apply within the week.
For elected officials, business leaders, managers and parents who want to turn their authority into service.
Your toolbox, included
Printable worksheets included in every format.
- ▣The Aligned Leader Audit
- ▣The Personal Integrity Charter
- ▣The Council of Three Perspectives
- ▣The Household Constitution
- ▣The Family Transmission Plan
- ▣The Organizational Alignment Matrix
- ▣The Team Health Audit
- ▣The Territory Needs Map
- ▣The Shared Vision Assembly
- ▣The Sustainability Test
- ▣The Leader's Succession Plan
Contents
PART ONE: The Aligned Leader
- CHAPTER 1: Leadership Begins Within1.1 The crisis of misaligned leadership1.2 The three consciousnesses of the leader1.3 The real-life case: Yao's promotion1.4 The diagnosis
- CHAPTER 2: Ethics as the Foundation2.1 Compromise, that cracked concrete2.2 The five pillars of trinitarian ethics2.3 The real-life case: the cooperative's scales2.4 Ethics in the three consciousnesses
- CHAPTER 3: The Sovereign Decision3.1 Deciding with the three consciousnesses3.2 Consulting without dissolving3.3 The real-life case: the school or the maternity clinic3.4 The decision in the three consciousnesses
PART TWO: The Family, the First Government
- CHAPTER 4: Father and Mother as Architects4.1 The family, the first institution4.2 The family council4.3 The real-life case: the Traoré household4.4 The family in the three consciousnesses
- CHAPTER 5: Passing On to Our Children5.1 Trinitarian education5.2 An inheritance greater than money5.3 The real-life case: the tailor of Korhogo5.4 Passing on in the three consciousnesses
PART THREE: The Conscious Enterprise
- CHAPTER 6: The Aligned Business Vision6.1 Purpose, mission and values6.2 Aligning strategy with ethics6.3 The real-life case: Mama Akoua's Delights6.4 Vision in the three consciousnesses
- CHAPTER 7: Leading People Without Wearing Them Out7.1 Servant leadership7.2 Preventing collective exhaustion7.3 A culture of excellence7.4 The real-life case: Maître Kanga's firm
- CHAPTER 8: Honest Money8.1 Profit at the service of the mission8.2 The slush fund, that silent illness8.3 The real-life case: the hardware store in San-Pédro8.4 Money in the three consciousnesses
PART FOUR: The Community and the City
- CHAPTER 9: The Leader at the Service of the City9.1 From power to service9.2 The three circles of public service9.3 The real-life case: Mrs Koné's surgeries9.4 The city in the three consciousnesses
- CHAPTER 10: Mobilizing Without Manipulating10.1 The art of bringing people together10.2 Building a shared vision10.3 Managing conflict10.4 The real-life case: the lowland of discord
PART FIVE: Lasting Institutions
- CHAPTER 11: Building Institutions That Last11.1 Why our organizations die with their founders11.2 The cult of personality against the strength of rules11.3 The four pillars of lasting institutions11.4 The real-life case: two organizations, two destinies
- CHAPTER 12: Transmission and Succession12.1 Training one's successors12.2 Mentoring across three generations12.3 Preparing your exit from your first day12.4 The real-life case: Mr Diomandé's school group