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 ‘Shared Learning’ Category
Why the Exercise of Leadership?
Posted in Business, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management, the unpredictable on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Corporate Social Responsibility (2 of 2)
Posted in Business, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, management, philosophy on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) incorporates three key ideas:
The idea of ethical responsibility.
The idea that business and organizations, just as with individuals, can be held responsible for their actions.
The idea of obligations towards society at large.
However, certainly in business and corporate world, CSR is generally treated with cynicism. This is unfortunate and in [...]
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 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 [...]
Leadership is Not About the Leader – Not About the Individual
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 [...]
Leadership: Will we ever get it right?
Posted in Business, Government, Leadership, Shared Learning, management on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The idea of leadership engages organisations, and indeed governments across the world probably more than any other management, or political topic. Indeed, the number of books and courses relating to leadership could be described as overwhelming.
Yet, for all that, along with the ongoing research surrounding leadership there remains the ambiguity about what leadership really is.
Over the past century, or [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Learning Enterprise and the Attainment of Goals
Posted in Business, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Following on from LLPathways previous post, it could be said that the Learning Enterprise is very much based on the idea of ’systems thinking’. In simple terms looking to connections, as well as to the totality of the business, or organization.
It allows people to look beyond what they are doing and taking on board the [...]
