Most everyone would agree that leadership is important in some way or other. Not only for people themselves, but for business, for organizations and for the nation itself. However, there the agreement ends. Why?
Well there is, as far as I know, no common agreement concerning what leadership is about, or even agreement about what the meaning [...]
Archive for November, 2008
The Purpose of Leadership: 3
Posted in Business, Education, Government, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, management, philosophy on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Myth of Management
Posted in Business, Government, Leadership, learning, management on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Paul Kearns writing in the current issue of Training Zone draws attention to the fact that practically every business school in the world failed to “predict the catastrophic failure in the global financial system, or influence its outcome.” A fact that has shown us once again the myth of management development.
The author also points to [...]
‘Leadership: The Most Misused Word in the English Language’
Posted in Government, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Via the exercise of leadership our hunter-gatherer ancestors were able to find their way through an often perilous world. They were able to do so by acknowledging the value of cooperation and networking. If they hadn’t I would not be here now writing this blog, nor would you be around to read it.
In short, hunter-gatherer peoples [...]
Leadership and the Presidential Election
Posted in Government, Leadership, Sustainability on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today the call for ‘leadership’, or ‘change of leadership’, has never been greater. Witness today’s presidential election. Again we have the call for leadership regarding the present global financial crisis etc.
The question is: What is it exactly that people are asking for when calling for leadership? The problem is that ‘leadership’ is all too often simply [...]
