The purpose of Leadership and Learning Pathways is simply to promote an understanding of leadership that will help you as an owner, or manager, of a small to medium business, or organization, motivateemployees to make a commitment, as well as to create an environment to retain key people and to reduce absenteeism and turnover.
The exercise [...]
Archive for the ‘the unpredictable’ Category
Why the Exercise of Leadership?
Posted in Business, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management, the unpredictable on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Can We Predict the Future?
Posted in Business, Leadership, management, the unpredictable on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In order to survive in the world we must have the capacity to predict. Such prediction is usually based on what we already know, as well as on past evidence and experience.
For example, as individuals we predict that the local bin collection is every Monday at 10.00 am and so we leave our rubbish bins [...]
The Unpredictable World of Business
Posted in Business, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management, the unpredictable on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Returning to the unpredictable, particularly that relating to the world of business, it could be argued that these last few days and weeks has strengthened the notion that:
No business should expect what has produced success in the past will continue to do so in the future.
Look what has happened to Woolworths (130 years old), Waterford Wedgwood [...]
Leadership and the Unpredictable (2)
Posted in Business, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management, the unpredictable on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
