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Interesting Articles
Where Will We Find Tomorrows Leaders
Friday, 13 April 2012 00:00
by Linda A Hill, (Harvard Business Review, January 2008).
In light of the GFC and election of Obama as US President, this article (written before GFC) suggested that that future leaders will come from very different background to where they have come from now. The style of leadership will be different to popular Western-dominated leadership concepts.
Collective leadership with power symmetry: Lessons from Aboriginal prehistory
Monday, 13 February 2012 00:00
by Karl-Erik Sveiby, Hanken School of Economics, PO Box 479, 00101 Helsinki, Finland ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), (Leadership November 2011 vol. 7 no. 4 385-414).
Most of leadership literature is US-centric. This article approaches leadership from an different and challenging angle, ie Indigenous. Any comments appreciated.
Read more: Collective leadership with power symmetry: Lessons from Aboriginal prehistory
Learning To Live With Complexity
Monday, 16 January 2012 00:00
Article is from Harvard Business Review and entitled "Learning to Live with Complexity" by Gökce Sargut and Rita Gunther McGrath (Sept. 2011).
How to make sense of the unpredictable and the undefinable in today’s hyperconnected business world
In summary, the article describes how organisations have gone from complicated to complex; there are many diverse, interdependent parts interacting and they are in constant flux so that the final outcome is unknown; the same starting conditions may yield different results; seemingly simple actions may produce unexpected and/or unintended consequences; rare events are becoming more significant than average ones.
Technique Critical Evaluation
Sunday, 18 December 2011 00:00
Several ways of doing critical reflection are explained in the attached article which is taken from the CD entitled "Organisational Change Management" (50+ Frameworks & 200+ Techniques) - more details on the CD available here
Buck Up
Monday, 21 November 2011 00:00
Buck Up, It Doesn’t Have To Be The End Of The World
by Amy Gallo, (Australian Financial Review: June1, 2011)
The article explains how we all made mistake (some more significant than others) but it is more important is how we handle them, ie admit them, learn from them, change your ways, use your support network, move forward, etc
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