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Why Context Matters

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” [...]

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The Synthesizing Leader

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 [...]

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Understanding Leadership Context

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 [...]

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