Collaborative learning is a method of teaching and learning, in which participants team together to explore a significant question, or create a meaningful project. A group of learners dialoguing about a formal presentation or working together over the Internet on a shared assignment are both...
Learning to lead today means practicing more like a missionary and less like a mercenary. Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have co-authored more than a dozen award-winning leadership books, their most impactful one being The Leadership Challenge. They outline what I call the five basic...
“If our actions inspire others to dream more, to learn more, to do more, and become more, then we are leaders.” (John Quincy Adams) Quite possibly the most influential theorist and practitioner on “Liberating” leadership over the past 60 years has been Warren Bennis, an American...
Simon Western, currently professor of leadership and coaching studies at the Tavistock Institute in England, offers researched and innovative new learning processes, which aim to transform the way “liberating” leadership impacts on both individuals and organizations. The Tavistock Institute works internationally to promote a “liberating”...
“Liberation” was a social, religious, political, and organizational movement of the Twentieth Century. According to Webster, the word “Liberation”, a noun, means “a movement seeking equal rights and status for a group”. But being a noun, the word signifies something static. Thus, I prefer the...
After facilitating leadership, management, and learning in the professional services area for nearly 50 years, I have come to the following conclusions: I am getting older (a young 81), and the majority of those engaged in my management workshops are getting younger (25-40). Sociologists have identified...
Nicolaus Copernicus and Steve Jobs were both geniuses who lived nearly 500 years apart! Copernicus in Europe; Jobs in America. Both Copernicus and Jobs were “Men of the Renaissance”: the former of the Middle Ages; the later of the Modern Era. Copernicus challenged the deep...
While facilitating a leadership program for managers of the Dominican Civil Aviation Department in the Dominican Republic a few years ago, my co-facilitator made the following statement to me after one of our lively and interactive change leadership presentations: “Don, you really are quite a...
Two British Leadership theorists and practitioners, Esther Cameron and Mike Green in their text “Making Sense of Change Management” (2012), conclude their book by stating that political, economic, and climate instability are all familiar elements of the global context in which we are now working....