It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
“Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: ‘Who do we intend to be?’ Not ‘What are we going to do?’ but ‘Who do we intend to be?’” —Max De Pree, Herman Miller As leaders we spend a lot of [...]
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Marshall Goldsmith wrote an interesting article “Great Leaders Are Made Not Born” discussing leadership development effectiveness, when Marshall Goldsmith and his partner Howard Morgan, conducted an extensive study on leadership development programs involving over 86,000 participants in eight major corporations. Their finding were that… “Leaders who participated in a development program, received 360º feedback, selected [...]
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Rapid change whilst facing uncertainty, requires great courage. I found the article in the Pegasus newsletter titles “Landmarks for Leaders in Times of Uncertainty and Chaos” by Bob Stilger very insightful. The article discusses how community leaders are creating change inspite of the uncertainty around them. “All around the world, people are stepping forward in [...]
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I have been reflecting on the importance of having a learning attitude after reading the book “Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 7 Powerful Tools for Life and Work” by Marilee Adams. The key thesis of the book is that by consciously observing our thinking and by asking ourselves better questions we are able to [...]
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A great post titled “What I believe about learning” from the Anecdote blog, so what does Shawn believe about learning? People don’t think they’ve learned anything until they’ve reflected on what happened. The learning comes at this point of reflecting not in the act of work in many cases. Learning is social-it benefits from conversations. [...]
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