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 [...]
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What Knowledge and Skills are Worthwhile Learning
Posted in Business, Education, leaders, learning, philosophy on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Exercise of Leadership and the Successful Enterprise
Posted in Business, Leadership, Sustainability, leaders, learning, management on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The successful enterprise requires the exercise of leadership. Why? Because such an enterprise needs to be able to adapt, and adaption depends on the exercise of leadership. Simple? Yes and no.
Yes: because the exercise of leadership is in no way mysterious, or something understood and practised by great, or ‘extraordinary’ leaders. Instead, it can be practised [...]
Why the Exercise of Leadership?
Posted in Business, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management, the unpredictable on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
The Secret of Business Success
Posted in Business, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The two most important factors in business, social and organizational success are:
(1) The exercise of leadership. (2) The willingness to learn.
If those, and especially those who lead the enterprise, exercise leadership in their dealings with people within the enterprise – that is, investing time in people, making deliberate efforts to improve things – while at [...]
Leadership in Action
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 [...]
Leadership: Not that Word Again?
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. [...]
Leadership in Action
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 [...]
The Myth of Leadership
Posted in Business, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In a book published in 2004 called ‘The Myth of Leadership’ Professor Jeffrey Nielsen makes the case for the end of leadership as we know it, and the creation of what he calls: ’peer-group, leaderless organizations.’
Now while LLPathways would agree that there indeed needs to be a genuine rethink about the way in which leadership [...]
What is Leadership? A legitimate question?
Posted in Business, Leadership, Sustainability, learning, management, philosophy on February 18, 2009 | Comments Off
There is little doubt that many people in the business, organizational and social fields are today seeking to find out about the concept and practice of leadership, as indeed many are writing about it.
It could be supposed that this increased interest is due to the challenges that organizations in the business and social domains are [...]
The Banks – An Example of Unlearning Organisations
Posted in Business, Leadership, Shared Learning, learning, management on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As Simon Caulkin writing in the Sunday Observer (15th February 2009) points out: ‘…the most remarkable thing on show at last week’s ‘House of Commons’ banking hearings was the banks’ leaders naivety about capitalism – a gullibility that has endangered both of the economy’s major institutions – markets and companies.’
These leaders of the banking world in [...]
