In relation to the question: Can leadership fail? The simple answer is ‘No’. Can leaders and governments fail? Of course they can, and all too often do so.
Leadership is not a concept that can fail, just as you cannot say that gravity fails.
It is the degree of leadership present that is the crucial factor in [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Can Leadership Fail?
Posted in Government, Leadership, Life skills, Shared Learning, Sustainability, management on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Return to Leadership.
Posted in Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, management on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A person can be appointed a leader, or manager. However, you can’t be an effective leader until your knowledge and skill in the exercise of leadership is fully incorporated into the way you direct your authority with regard to your colleagues, or fellow human beings throughout the particular social, or organizational setting.
Today, we need more [...]
In the Land of the Blind the One-Eyed Man is King
Posted in Shared Learning, World peace, tagged World peace on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the concluding episode of BBC 2’s “The Long Way Round” a programme about Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman travelling from London to New York on motorbikes, one of the things that they recalled was ‘the generosity and friendliness of the people they met throughout their travels. The journey took then through Europe, Kazakhstan, Southern [...]
Russia and Georgia at War – the senselessness of it all.
Posted in Georgia, Government, Human conflict, Leadership, Russia, Shared Learning, philosophy, tagged Human conflict on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over the last few days we have witnessed the sad loss of life in the war between Russia and Georgia over the disputed regions of South Ossetta and Abkhazia. It turned out to be, like most wars, a war of claim and counter-claim. And of course one of the casualties of war is truth.
What we see [...]
The Beginning of Survival
Posted in Government, Leadership, Sustainability on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I began this series of posts on 24th February ‘08 by stating that the purpose of the LLPathways’ web-log was to begin a debate relating to the understanding and exercise of leadership in relation to our present and future survival on the planet.
In an article written by Oliver Tinkell in today’s ‘The Guardian’ called: “On [...]
Leadership: Lessons from Our Ancestors
Posted in Education, Leadership, Life skills, Shared Learning, Sustainability on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Somewhat recent findings referred to by Woods et al (1) and Bryant (2) point to the fact that in relation to Native Americans perceptions ‘leadership’ is not located in a person, but in a community, and ‘the leader’ is a transient role. Here everyone plays a leading role at different times. Authority is specific to [...]
Let Us Rescue Leadership from Leaders.
Posted in Leadership, Shared Learning, learning on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Despite the vast amount of literature published in recent years concerning leadership, as well as centres of leadership now attached to a growing number of universities, particular in North America and Europe, there remains a serious deficit in the understanding, adoption and exercise of leadership relating to both our social and organizational environments.
An understanding, that as [...]
Leadership: The Problem of Definition.
Posted in Business, Education, Leadership, Life skills, Shared Learning, management, philosophy on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It could be said that the inherent confusion surrounding the idea of leadership itself tends to place barriers in the way of understanding and adopting leadership as a guiding principle in establishing and maintaining a culture of shared learning, successful and inclusive organizational and social development.
Nevertheless, the removal of such barriers will no doubt prove to [...]
The Purpose of Leadership – 2
Posted in Government, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the LLP post of July 25th I wrote about leadership as being a kind of journey that we share together. Indeed it could be argued that leadership in relation to a journey provides a sense of direction. A direction that in many ways originates in the autonomy of people to think and act regarding [...]
