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Leader as map maker

21 August 2008

Leadership is a journey and an effective leader brings along a map. Maps are useful tools to helping us understand where we are, where we want to be and what route we need to take when journeying from where we are, to where we want to be.
 

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The importance of context for successful leadership

24 June 2008

Tony Mayo, co-author of "In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century", discusses the importance of contextual intelligence for leaders. In his post Tony Mayo describes the importance of context for leaders….
"Yes, business leaders need to have certain personal characteristics to be successful, but it is often the application of those characteristics [...]

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The importance of sensemaking in leadership

15 June 2008

One of the critical leadership capabilities required today is sensemaking, which is defined by Wikipedia as:
“..the ability or attempt to make sense of an ambiguous situation. More exactly, sensemaking is the process of creating situational awareness and understanding in situations of high complexity or uncertainty in order to make decisions.”

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Leading for the Next Act

11 August 2007

The article titled “Leading for the Next Act: Why CEOs Must Evolve or Step Aside“ published in Knowledge@Wharton provides an interesting discussion concerning the need for leaders to change their leadership style to fit that challenges facing their organisations.
“The secret to long-term CEO success, suggests David Nadler, a consultant to boards and senior executives, is conceiving of a [...]

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The MIT Leadership Framework…

20 April 2007

 
The MIT Leadership Center has a great leadership framework, discussed in the article “Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty” by Deborah Ancona, the Director of the MIT Leadership Center. The framework was developed by four MIT Sloan faculty members, Deborah Ancona, Wanda Orlikowski, Peter Senge and Tom Malone and is underpinned by the following four [...]

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Why context matters

11 March 2007

The Functioning Form blog has a post Lessons From The Tipping Point that really got me thinking about the leader’s role in setting and shaping the organisational context. The post provides a very good summary of Malcolm Gladwell’s book “The Tipping Point“. The post summarises from the book “The Power of Context” as follows:

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The Synthesizing Leader

11 March 2006

The Harvard Business Review’s Breakthrough Ideas for 2006, provides a list of breakthrough ideas for 2006. One of the breakthrough ideas that stood out to me, is the breakthrough idea from Howard Gardner, titled “The Synthesizing Leader”, Howard states that:
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann once said to me that he thought the most valued [...]

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Understanding Leadership Context

8 December 2005

As leaders it’s important to gain an understanding of the context in which we practice leadership. To assist in understanding context the levels of leadership model, illustrated below, is helpful.

In our every days lives we practice leadership at various levels, each requiring a different set of competencies, styles and approach. The various levels of leadership [...]

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