Catalytic Power: Your Passageway to Augmented Accomplishment

As senior leaders, we are keenly aware of power. 

We wield it to drive strategies, shape markets, influence stakeholders, and make crucial decisions for the organisation. 

Power is often synonym for control, strength, right, capacity, force.

Here, I want to talk about a more potent kind of power - catalytic power. 

Catalytic power acts like a catalyst. It has the ability to ignite and accelerate transformation not by direct control but by activating, empowering and multiplying the inherent potential in others. 

This is the paradigm shift.  From a zero-sum game for domination to one of sustainable continuity and momentum. 

In essence, catalytic power is the power to make things happen because of you – not by you. 

Catalytic power is the driving force behind true, lasting influence. Imagine being in a position where you could inspire, enable and activate the greatness in others, creating a positive domino effect long after you’ve moved on.

And that is the point: catalytic power leads to an unseen ROI – opening for yourself an entire new world of possibilities.

As you free your mind from the compulsion of possessing power, you also win back considerable amounts of time and energy. You can elevate your own game, deepen your thinking, and turn to the next stage of your existence.

This is the real game changer – I know this firsthand.

During the last ten years of my corporate career, I did not hold immense executive power over people or systems; but I did represent considerable statutory power. I would travel the world, hang out with influential people, explore collaborations, and do deals with them. It was exciting, rewarding, and addictive.

In 2017, as I finally settled in Asia, clarity struck: my three-decade affair with international deal-making had run its course. As much as I had enjoyed it, it also came at a huge cost: what was the point of it outside of social status and financial reward?

Perhaps you can relate to that.

As for me, I got lucky: the question hit me hard enough that I had no option but to consider it. Half of the work was done. 

The other half however – learning how to swim without the statutory life jacket – felt furiously unsettling and required serious personal rebooting. What was I to do, or be, once left to just… me?

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I believe that embracing the peculiarities of catalytic power has the ability to remind us that power isn't an end in itself, but a way of serving others, systems and communities for a greater purpose.

Considering power like a passage requires a mindset shift. It comes with its share of unknown – what’s waiting for us on the other side?

But it can move us from a place of toughness, concern, and finitude to one of renewed openings, deeper realization, and augmented significance.

One focus of my work is to guide you in cultivating this new paradigm of power – the power that empowers – and to accompany you toward higher stages of accomplishment.

Whether you identify as a High-impact Professional, an Entrepreneur, a Business Owner, or an Investor, let’s chat.

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