Global leadership
My Size Fits All - Not
I spent several hours today cruising the web looking for people with something to say about leadership. As a scholar-practitioner I was looking to discover some kind of pattern to what is “out there” on the subject.
Most of the people talking about leadership in the sites I visited fall into three categories: executives who claim success in “leading” an organization; people like me who claim to have had some success in some field of work and now consult to people who have organizational problems or needs they want to address; and professors in universities or PhD-holders in a related field working in some form of education in some kind of organization, either for- or not-for-profit.
Was It Really Leadership?
The most interesting thing about all of this, though, is how infrequently the…
National Politicians May Be Global Leaders
Note: This post is not about Sarah Palin. Some of her recent expressions are merely grist for the leadership mill. My intention is that this post be about the distinction between a national politician and world leader, between parochial and inclusive, about individualism and collectivism (or communitarianism, more accurately), between a closed and an open system, about globalization and our role in it.
LINK: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/16/europe.palin.oakley/index.html?iref=newssearch
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The issue discussed in this CNN article is not parochialism, per se. It is an apparent disinterest in being part of the world community, a…
