The Promethean’s Pledge

Prometheans Pledge to re-shape the structure of leadership in ourselves, groups, organizations, communities, and society.

Our Values

  1. Speak directly and plainly. Engage people of any status and expertise without buzzwords and proprietary jargon.

  2. Be humble and courageous learners. Step out of our protective stances. Exemplify the righteous practice of learning across knowledge, skill, experience, openness, and insight.

  3. Lead and learn collectively. The future of leading includes collective knowledge, collective influence, and collective ambition, walk this talk.

  4. Honor the whole even if you speak to the parts. Your audience wants to understand, internalize, and actualize your points. They internalize in molecular and micro increments. They also want to integrate it into the whole of themselves and their experience.

  5. Quiet the noise. There are a lot of discussions, promotions, and content that amount to noise. We seek to quiet the noise.

  6. Evoke learning by action. Knowing about leading and leaders is not sufficient. Invite a strategy for personal change and learning-in-action.

  7. Embrace certainty with a plurality. Language is imprecise. Your favorite constructs (and your IP) are imperfect. Common ground, adaptive use, and cohesiveness require a balance of flexibility and cohesiveness.

  8. Hold a bias for open source. Encourage the use of common leadership development assets. Hold a realistic and generous perspective on what is and is not your IP.  Balance the moral and commercial value of this work.

Our Vision

  1. Leading is Clear. The reality will always be that Leading is as complex as people, organizations, knowledge, and our challenges. Reality does not have to be confounding. Our community works to clear common ground about what it means to lead. There is a simple and authentic story to weave.

  2. Leaders are Common. We want everyone to be aware and confident of their leadership identity. Our language no longer equates leaders to a point of power or a position, but a quality we bring forward in every corner and at every rank.

    When leaders are common, organizations of every type will make a leader’s capacities and skills their first-tier concern.

    Every person who has the desire to build their human and creative capabilities will find access to quality affordable guides and experiences.