There has been something of a time gap since my last posting. Nevertheless I am returning to the thoughts of Socrates (469 B.C – 399 B.C.) whose insights are as relevant today as they were in ancient Greece.
In relation to knowledge Socrates believed in two principle types of knowledge: ‘important’ and ‘trivial’ and concluded that most of [...]
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
What Knowledge and Skills are Worthwhile Learning
Posted in Business, Education, leaders, learning, philosophy on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Purpose of Leadership: 3
Posted in Business, Education, Government, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, management, philosophy on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
Posted in Education, Leadership, Life skills, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Leadership provides us with a sense of direction, a focus. It permeates the entire enterprise with values, principles and integrity.
It provides the ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘now’ of improvement.
In relation to the life of our hunter-gatherer ancestors the inherent exercise of leadership allowed them to develop the social skills of cooperation, along with the sense of the [...]
Leadership and Shared Learning = Survival
Posted in Business, Education, Government, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The overall purpose of these posts, and of Leadership and Learning Pathways itself, is to support the integration of leadership and learning into the fabric of our everyday social and organizational lives.
When leadership is valued and flourishes learning is also valued and flourishes. Free to grow in new and varied ways while enriching us all [...]
Rescuing Leadership from Leaders.
Posted in Business, Education, Government, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management, philosophy on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is often the case with regard to human knowledge that a paradigm shift in the understanding of the nature of things is required in order that we can begin to identify with a particular concept – in this case ‘leadership’ - in new and relevant ways.
Just as with the sciences it is sometimes necessary to [...]
Why Do Organizations Fail? 1-5
Posted in Business, Education, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Most organizations that fail, fail simply because they do not learn. The idea that people, and the organizations to which they belong, should learn and share that learning is broadly supported, and is even seen as obvious. However, in reality, few organizations encourage learning, even less, shared learning.
The question is: Why are there so many barriers [...]
Organizations With Learning Disabilities
Posted in Business, Education, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The name of this website is LLPathways - short for Leadership and Learning Pathways.
The principle challenge for today’s organizational management is to make effective use of the organization’s collective leadership and learning capacity. However, the exercise of leadership and knowledge sharing are not at all easy.
As we are probably aware, there are inevitably both overt and hidden cultural, political [...]
Leadership and Management
Posted in Education, Leadership, management on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Before continuing with the ‘leadership – management’ debate I would very much like to thank those who have kindly commented on the blogs so far, and I would be delighted to receive more of your views. After all, there is no definative right or wrong in this debate. The overall purpose is to achieve understanding.
Meanwhile, some [...]
