7Transformation From Depleted to Inspired Leadership

This chapter explores the final leadership transformation produced by the WLS, from depleted to inspired leadership. The analysis will show that the WLS fostered greater leadership effectiveness through this transformation by fostering a shift in a habitual, self-affirming, context-obliged pattern of thinking and feeling that shaped depleted leadership behaviors. In general, self-affirming thoughts have to do with an individual’s positive appraisal of, and attachment to, self-aspects such as values, beliefs, skills, and the like. Recall from ...

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