Today’s somewhat longer post revisits the world of humanistic psychology, and particularly the work of Erich Fromme (1900-1980). One of the most challenging of Fromm’s search for human motivation was his conviction that human beings are driven either consciously, or unconsciously, by the need to find answers to one’s existence. For Fromm the answers to [...]
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Our Search for Meaning
Posted in Life skills, Shared Learning, learning, psychology on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why Do Organizations Fail? 3-5
Posted in Business, Leadership, Life skills, Shared Learning, learning, management on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the previous post I wrote that all too many organizations don’t allow their people time to analyze and discuss what has worked and what hasn’t worked, thus restricting their learning and that of the organization as a totality.
Interestingly, research has strongly indicated that much of organizational incentives, policies, procedures and structures do more to [...]
“The Folly of Management?”
Posted in Business, Leadership, management on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Returning to the ‘leadership – management’ debate and to the broadly held notion, especially by those working in the public sector, that many of today’s organisations are over-burdened with managerialism. That is, operating the organisation for the benefit of managers, pursuing objectives attractive say to the management team but which are not necessarily beneficial to the [...]
Leadership in Adversity
Posted in Government, Leadership, Sustainability, Uncategorized on May 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In LLpathway’s last post I said that we would be returning to the issue of leadership. And so it is.
Sadly, the origin the present post derives from last week’s earthquake tragedy in South West China. However, In the midst of the thousands of news reports in newspapers, and on radio and televisions across the world [...]
Again: What is Leadership?
Posted in Government, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, Uncategorized on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After 25 blogs it might be an appropriate time to reiterate the purpose of the blogs and the Leadership and Learning Pathways website. Well, the intention is to help in bringing about a much more equitable and sustainable world.
Of course no one person, no one group, will be able to achieve such a world. It [...]
Leadership and Democracy
Posted in Government, Leadership, Life skills, Shared Learning, Uncategorized on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All too many in authority, both past and present, are prone to adopting the heroic style of leading, making what they see as ‘those difficult decisions others will, or cannot, make’. However, if authority denies itself access to a broad range of intelligence, understanding and experience that exists across both the social and organizational domains [...]
Learning Without Fear
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The other day I happened to read the following disturbing words from a primary school pupil: “If the teacher hits me everything immediately goes from my head. Even if I had lots of ideas before, the moment he hits me, I lose everything. I can’t think.”
All too many countries across the world still fail to [...]
Having or Being?
Posted in Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Recent LLPathways’ blogs have looked at the leadership attributes of empathy, compassion, humility and learning, all of which are central to the goal of building healthier and more sustainable communities and organizations. This blog continues with the theme of how best to ensure that such goals are achieved and in the process will visit the work [...]
Characterists of Leadership: Learning 2-3
Posted in Leadership, Life skills, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A learning ethos challenges us to question the notion that: ‘the way we have always done things is the best, or only, way to get things done.’
Reflecting on how things get done allows you to make comparisons and see where problems occur – what caused them and what possible solutions there might be. Otherwise, we [...]
Characteristics of Leadership: Learning 1-3
Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Learning is a journey of discovery. It is a life-long process. It is one of the most important attributes of leadership.
Without learning we would be unable to survive in a continually changing environment. Thus authorities carry much responsibility for creating and nurturing what might be described as ‘learning environments’. Indeed, they must ask themselves, and [...]
