As I said in an earlier post, management attempts to deal with the known and predictable world while generally ignoring the unknown, the unpredictability world.
Yet, one of the most significant advances in scientific knowledge in recent years is the understanding that the natural world is, to a large degree, in a state of disorder. This state [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Leadership and the Unpredictable (2)
Posted in Business, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management, the unpredictable on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Management and the Unpredictable
Posted in Leadership, Sustainability, learning, management, tagged Business on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Returning to the unpredictable and its place in social and organizational life. It could be argued that the history of management is in many ways a constant striving for order and control.
Nevertheless, suppose that the very idea of order in organizational and social settings (and surely all social and organizational settings are by their very [...]
To Ignore the Unpredictable is a Risky Business
Posted in Business, Leadership, Life skills, management, philosophy on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As promised in LLPathways previous post this post returns to the ‘unpredictable’. Now, it could be argued that with regards to our social and organizational worlds the current situation is the result of innumerable causes, and for this reason their futures cannot be fully predicted.
Thus, the question is: Can we fully predict, less manage, the [...]
Leadership and the Unpredictable (1)
Posted in Business, Government, Leadership, management on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It could be said that leadership is about trust, respect, supporting, empowerment, empathy, motivation, challenging, direction-setting, communicating etc. However, in the list of what leadership is all about there is one attribute that is all too often overlooked, and that is its role in dealing with the world of the unpredictable.
In many ways the world [...]
The Purpose of Leadership: 4
Posted in Business, Human conflict, Leadership, Life skills, Shared Learning, management on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Conflict Resolution
A very important aspect of the exercise of leadership is to address conflict. Indeed, the exercise of leadership acknowledges that within every social, or organizational, context you will find the seeds of conflict. Why? Because in such context differences of opinion, along with conflicts of interest, are often present.
Even within one’s own personality conflict [...]
The Philosophy of Leadership
Posted in Business, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, management, philosophy on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The previous post talked about the purpose of leadership. Today’s post is in many ways about the philosophy of organizational leadership
The present and future posts to the LLPathway’s blog will more, or less, focus on leadership attributes and actions regarding organizational development and sustainability in relation to employee, customers and other stakeholders.
For LLPathways leadership is [...]
