In their book “Leaders, the Strategy for Taking Charge” (1985), Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus, prominent American leadership researchers, theorists, and practitioners asked the question “Where Have All the Leaders Gone?” That question remains unanswered. Leadership Is Like Acting Leadership, I believe, is like acting. Most actors...
Inclusive Project Leadership (IPL) is currently passing through three phases: Transactional, Transitional, and Transformational. Transactional Project Leadership focuses on supervision, organization, rules, regulations, and performance. It is based on a shift in the way the project process is completed, which is designed to increase the...
Storytelling has been an effective means of communicating substantive and cultural messages for thousands of years. The Bible is one of the best examples of how storytelling has been used to shape behaviors, cultural norms, and core values. Great stories create a rich visual imagery...
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...
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...
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....