Posted in Business, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management, tagged The exercise of leadership on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It must be said that attempting to link leadership to specific management tasks is a major challenge for the vast majority of organizations.
From a practical management perspective the exercise of leadership entails:
getting people to function at a higher level than has previously been the case.
focusing the work of people in order to serve the overall success [...]
Posted in Business, Leadership, Life skills, Sustainability, learning, management, philosophy on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It could be said that the term ‘leadership’ has been, and continues to be, misunderstood and overused by ‘experts’ in the business, organizational and political worlds to a point where the concept has simply ceased to have any real meaning.
A ‘consultant’ who has never seriously studied, or understood leadership can call himself a leadership expert. [...]
Posted in Leadership, Life skills, Shared Learning, World peace, learning, management on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the 100th post let us see what the exercise of leadership means in relation to the real world.
An example of leadership in action was seen in this week’s debut in New York’s Carnegie Hall of the very first appearance of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra.
In today’s ‘The Independent’ newspaper, London, quoting Associated Press, we read that already the [...]
Posted in Business, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, management, philosophy on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Leadership, certainly in terms of ‘the exercise of leadership’, is not about individualism, but about being part of a greater totality. It is not about the lionization, or acclaim, of this or that person, but about the success of the enterprise as an ensemble of people working together for the overall benefit of all.
It could [...]
Posted in Business, Leadership, management on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Although there is little doubt that a positive contribution to our understanding of leadership exists in the qualities approach, it suffers a number of disadvantages, particularly with regard to developing and encouraging leadership throughout the business, or organization.
The first being that there is a lack of real consensus as to what exactly are the qualities [...]
