by George Ambler on March 11, 2007
Photo by h.koppdelaney 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” [...]
by George Ambler on March 11, 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 [...]
by George Ambler on December 8, 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 [...]