Many say competition brings out the best in us. Is this fact or fiction?
Let’s assume it is fact. Accordingly, since we want the best to emerge from whatever involves people we must make it a competition. We want a winner to incite the rest (of us losers) to become winners. No one wants to be [...]
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A Competing Fact
Posted in Leadership, Systems Thinking, partnership, tagged human spirit, Leadership, management, partnership, relationships, Systems Thinking on March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Hidden Lessons in Leadership #2
Posted in Leadership, partnership, tagged Development of Self, human spirit, Leadership, relationships on March 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Since examples can illustrate successful practice, many aspiring leaders often search for them to direct (their) action. And just as often those copying these examples fail. Why? Because they really don’t know what to copy! Rarely do people critically think about the examples in an effort to develop understanding of why the practice is effective.
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Hidden Lessons in Leadership
Posted in Leadership, Systems Thinking, partnership, tagged Critical Thinking, human spirit, Leadership, management, relationships, Systems Thinking on February 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Since examples can illustrate successful action, many aspiring leaders often search for them to direct (their) action. And just as often those copying these examples fail. Why? Because they really don’t know what to copy! There is rarely ever any critical thinking about the examples, so there is nothing learned from them. In other words, [...]
A Wish
Posted in Leadership, Progress, partnership, tagged Development of Self, human spirit, Leadership, partnership, Progress, Quality on December 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Looking into the clear star-lit Christmas Eve sky feelings of both amazement and wonderment of our very existence and way of being emerged. So here we are between the infiniteness of the universe above and the finiteness of the earth below. I can’t help but think that we humans reflect both.
During the holiday season most [...]
What to Look For
Posted in Leadership, partnership, tagged Critical Thinking, Development of Self, human spirit, Leadership, partnership, relationships, Systems Thinking on December 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today, as in the past, we anxiously await the emergence of leadership but unfortunately we are often disappointed. Irrespective of whether leaders are selected or elected, the experience provided falls far short of the experience needed. We seem to always get much less than what we hoped for. Far too few of those we find [...]
Is a Leader What We Need?
Posted in Leadership, Progress, partnership, tagged Critical Thinking, Leadership, partnership, relationships on December 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Whenever I converse with others about leadership, I am never quite sure that there is a common understanding of (exactly) what the term means—I would not be surprised if others have the same experience. Granted it is far more entertaining to talk about something that we can’t seem to agree upon—like who is #1 at [...]
Leadership Involves We, Not Me
Posted in Leadership, partnership, tagged Critical Thinking, Development of Self, Leadership, partnership, Progress on November 1, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Leadership can’t be defined as a characteristic of an individual since it is an emergent property of the relationship between individuals. In short, leadership has to do with a ‘We’ and not with a ‘Me’. Analogously, neither hydrogen nor oxygen has the characteristic of wetness, yet water is wet. There can be no leadership with (just) one individual!
