We don't have all the answers. That's true whether we're on the outside of the issue looking in or on the inside looking out. The leadership team knows its business, whereas the change agent knows …
Are you leading with your professional paradigm?
They say the way we do anything is the way we do everything. When it comes to leadership and management, we tend to lead and manage in a paradigm dictated by our professional or vocational …
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Controlling everything isn’t leadership
It’s management. They say the best leaders are the ones who develop the most leaders, not the most followers. If we want to lead—as opposed to manage—we mustn’t control everything, because then …
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Leadership isn’t always about teams
We tend to think of leadership in the context of leading teams, at least in connection with work we do. But it isn’t necessarily so. Yes, a leader’s role is often to build the necessary …
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Straightening out your business
In program and project management, people talk about “straightening out the program,” meaning to set it on an orderly basis, with dependencies between one task and another, and resource availability …
Does change come before leadership?
In the dictionary it does, of course. And perhaps in real life too. Certainly the two things are closely tied up with each other. Is the need for leadership prompted by external change, or should …
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