Returning, as promised, to the ‘leadership – management’ debate, it could be said that today we are surrounded by talk concerning the need to develop leadership and management proficiencies. A development that is costing millions, even, billions of pounds, euros, dollars etc. This cost is carried by government, business and social organizations in order to [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Leadership – Not Management (2)
Posted in Business, Education, Government, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Leadership – Not Management
Posted in Business, Education, Government, Leadership, Sustainability, management on May 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Following my earlier post ‘Leadership – Not Leaders’, and by the way thanks to Sue Massey for her kind comments regarding that post. This post is concerned with the vexed question of difference between leadership and management.
As with leaders and leadership there is no direct link, or correlation, between management and leadership. Indeed, for organizational and social [...]
Leadership – Not Leaders.
Posted in Business, Government, Leadership, Sustainability on May 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In their 2005 book: “What We Know About Leadership” (Educational Publishing Foundation) the writers Robert Hogan and Robert B. Kaiser tell us that: “Leadership is a real and vastly consequential phenomenon. Perhaps the single most important issue in the Human Sciences.” You will not be surprised to learn that Leadership and Learning Pathways fully agrees.
Unfortunately, the [...]
Leadership: We Can So Easily Be Confused
Posted in Business, Government, Leadership, philosophy on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I was struggling to write today’s blog about leadership and our hunter-gatherer ancestors when I decided to give my brain cells a break. (Yes, I have a few, too few to mention). I typed llpathways into Google Search and found a post written by Scott Middleton asking the question: “How does one practice leadership?”
Scott [...]
Leadership? – You Could Have Fooled Me.
Posted in Business, Education, Government, Leadership, Sustainability on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I first began to take an interest in leadership, some twenty years ago now, I was overwhelmed by the amount of knowledge and insight such writers as John Adair, Meredith Belbin, Kenneth Blanchard, Douglas McGregor, Warren Bennis, Charles Handy along with many others, expressed in their writings. Things that, if I had known as a [...]
Leadership in Adversity
Posted in Government, Leadership, Sustainability, Uncategorized on May 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In LLpathway’s last post I said that we would be returning to the issue of leadership. And so it is.
Sadly, the origin the present post derives from last week’s earthquake tragedy in South West China. However, In the midst of the thousands of news reports in newspapers, and on radio and televisions across the world [...]
You Must Be Joking
Posted in Leadership, philosophy on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
LLPathway’s previous two blogs referred to Plato and the ‘worlds of appearances’. It could be said that the present post continues the Plato theme by quoting from “Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar - Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes” by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein.
A seeker hears that the wisest guru in all of India [...]
Are We Living in a World of Illusions? 2-2
Posted in Leadership, Sustainability, learning, philosophy on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For Plato (Socrates) the cave represents the world of appearances. A place where people are trapped by illusions. Thus the way they see ‘reality’ is all too often both limited and flawed.
Nevertheless, by making a determined effort to see beyond the restricting confines of the cave, the few gained the ability to free themselves from [...]
Are We Living in a World of Illusions? 1-2
Posted in philosophy on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Plato’e allegory of the cave Socrates addresses the relations between appearance, reality and knowledge.
The cave dwellers are trapped. In time they begin to equate the world of shadows within the cave with reality itself. However, if in time, as the philosopher argues, a few of the inhabitants were to leave the cave they would soon realize that [...]
Again: What is Leadership?
Posted in Government, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, Uncategorized on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After 25 blogs it might be an appropriate time to reiterate the purpose of the blogs and the Leadership and Learning Pathways website. Well, the intention is to help in bringing about a much more equitable and sustainable world.
Of course no one person, no one group, will be able to achieve such a world. It [...]
