Tri-Intersectional Model of Leadership by Values: A Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making Open Technology Assessment System

Purpose—Nowadays successful organizations need to be masters at leadership by values to play in a constantly changing and transforming environment. But how can leaders and organizations effectively convene strategic and culture development based on values? This paper presents the Tri-Intersectional Model of Leadership by Values (TMLV) in which leaders and organizations can integrate a sustainable strategy, as well as a culture and value-based management system that simultaneously leverages human, financial, and social resources. With its three essential axes of values (economic-pragmatic, emotional-development, and ethical-social) at their intersection points, it allows leaders to focus on the strategy linkages: innovation—intersection between the economic-pragmatic values axis and the emotional-development values axis—allows them to develop sustainable innovations; survival—intersection between the economic-pragmatic values axis and the ethical-social values axis—enhances their organization’s survival; finally, sensibility—intersection between the economic-pragmatic values axis and the ethical-social values axis—makes them more humane and more socially-responsible. The application of the TMLV, using the Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making Open Technology Assessment System, can be a great inspiration for stimulating and working with values in organizations, as well as allowing leaders to develop a values-based, high-involvement, and performance-oriented culture. Methodology/Approach—This research considers empirical data analysis of the 37 case studies of the EU-InnovatE project (http//www.euinnovate.com)—a pioneering initiative to align innovation values to integrate the end user into the process of innovation and entrepreneurship related to a sustainable lifestyle and the green economy in Europe—using a fuzzy multiple-criteria decision making method and open technologies system, such as server-side PHP language, MariaDB Database, fork of MYSQL Database Management System, and JavaScript libraries to perform operation directly on the user’s browser. Findings—The application of the TMLV model, considering empirical analysis of the extracted values from the case studies, using the Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making Open Technology Assessment System, can be a great inspiration for stimulating and working with values in organizations, as well as allowing leaders to develop suitable strategies and interventions for shaping a sustainable high-performance culture. Research implications—This research can be a starting point for further research to assess the effectiveness of the leadership model based on a decision-making open technology system in any given organization, as well as to invite researchers who have positive passion about working with values to participate in the improvement of this tool. Originality/value—The Tri-Intersectional Model of Leadership by Values using the Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making Open Technology Assessment System is presented as an evolution in leadership models that may be used to fuel innovation, survival, and a sensibility strategic focus that is necessary to optimize human and organizational performance and deliver effective solutions to the massive array of human, financial, and social problems we face today.