Leadership development
You’re Not Crazy - It’s Hard.
If you have ever wondered if you’re crazy because managing people seems harder than it should be, let me assure you, you are not crazy. It is hard.
Here’s the thing, if your career followed the common path (not that you’re not extraordinary, mind you!) you
began early on with some academic knowledge about your field of study, took a job that allowed you to apply that knowledge in “the real world,” had that knowledge severely tested by every day challenges and problems, and managed through hard work and good old Puritan work ethic to develop a growing expertise at it. Then you were promoted based on that expertise into a role with more responsibility and authority. You did so well you were promoted into management. That’s when things got crazy.
The instant…
Leadership Insights from CCL
Enjoy this Center for Creative Leadership piece (follow the link)
—> http://www.ccl.org/leadership/pdf/research/EverydayLeadership.pdf
You might “find” yourself in one of the data summaries.
Enjoy. If you want to discuss it, look me up on Twitter (@activ8potential), AIM (ActivatePotential), or email (ActivatePotential{at}Gmail.com)
Bye for now.
David
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…
