In an article in the Sunday Observer of July 27th 2008 Jeremy Seabrook asked the question: ‘Why such obsessive concern with the leaders of the world?’ The Leadership and Learning Pathways’ (LLP) response is: Why indeed? Sadly, Jeremy’s understanding of leadership itself, as with that of the media, is rudimentary, if not simply wrong. Why?
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Archive for July, 2008
Obama and the Illusion of Leadership.
Posted in Government, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Purpose of Leadership
Posted in Education, Leadership, Life skills, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Leadership provides us with a sense of direction, a focus. It permeates the entire enterprise with values, principles and integrity.
It provides the ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘now’ of improvement.
In relation to the life of our hunter-gatherer ancestors the inherent exercise of leadership allowed them to develop the social skills of cooperation, along with the sense of the [...]
Leadership: Back to the Beginning
Posted in Leadership, philosophy on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Historically leadership is traditionally linked with the exercise and allocation of power in various forms. Nevertheless, it remains one of the least understood issues throughout the realm of scholarship. Certainly, over time our ideas about leadership, and its role regarding effective governance, has become confused, particularly in relation to various power structures.
Such confusion has led, not [...]
Leadership: Working and Learning Together
Posted in Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It could be said that the way leadership is interpreted in the media and spoken about by politicians and by gurus of management simply renders the phase itself meaningless.
Over many years there has been numerous attempts to arrive at some form of definition of leadership that would somehow gain universal approval and support. For Leadership [...]
Leadership: Let Us Make It Real
Posted in philosophy on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As I continue to research the vast and fascinating area of leadership it is becoming increasingly evident that much of the present understanding of the term needs some form of clarification.
Indeed, without such clarification we will continue to have a somewhat ambivalent view of the question of leadership itself. An ambivalence that can only hinder [...]
Leadership: A Journey
Posted in Leadership, Shared Learning, learning, philosophy on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The exercise of leadership and shared learning are interwoven. Both are journeys of discovery that somehow embrace, in so many ways, the human need for achievement.
One of the principle reasons for embarking upon this present series of posts emanates from a belief that as human beings we have inherited a tremendous potential, particularly when acting together, [...]
Leadership – Learning Together
Posted in Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management, philosophy on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The essence of the philosophy offered by Leadership and Learning Pathways (LLP) is that those societies and organizations that learn, share and apply that learning have a distinct advantage, that is with regard to human well-being, over those that don’t.
It is certainly worth noting that as an individual, our knowledge of the world is but [...]
Leadership: Where Do We Find It?
Posted in Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The origins of the ideas presented in this series of posts are the result of long years of research into what is normally described as ‘leadership’ competences. Competences much of which are too theoretical, restrictive and abstract, and indeed far too removed from peoples’ everyday social and organizational lives.
The philosophical basis of the Leadership and Learning [...]
Leadership and Shared Learning = Survival
Posted in Business, Education, Government, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The overall purpose of these posts, and of Leadership and Learning Pathways itself, is to support the integration of leadership and learning into the fabric of our everyday social and organizational lives.
When leadership is valued and flourishes learning is also valued and flourishes. Free to grow in new and varied ways while enriching us all [...]
Rescuing Leadership from Leaders.
Posted in Business, Education, Government, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management, philosophy on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is often the case with regard to human knowledge that a paradigm shift in the understanding of the nature of things is required in order that we can begin to identify with a particular concept – in this case ‘leadership’ - in new and relevant ways.
Just as with the sciences it is sometimes necessary to [...]
