Leadership can be a very complex and messy subject but in the end it’s really about one simple thing: bringing about positive change within a system. The system could be a team, family, organization, community, nation or, in rare cases, the world. It’s most impressive when this change is effected by someone who stands outside the traditional bounds of the formal authority of the system.
In my lifetime no single individual embodies this notion of leadership more than Nelson Mandela and today he celebrates his 90th birthday.
Time Magazine has a knack for effectively simplifying complex subjects and has done so this week with it’s cover article Mandela at 90 – The Secrets of Leadership. This is the 4th occasion that Mandela has graced the cover of Time.
The article was written by Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel who helped Mandela write his popular autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. He also wrote an interesting sidebar A Leader for the Ages in which he accounts his personal...
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Post Date: 2007-06-29 05:51:09
The majority of leadership development interventions are short-term in nature. In essence, they are “camps.” Two days here, six days there - very few have a long term perspective on development. Turning to a sports analogy, even if you were with the greatest coach in the world, how much could your basketball skills improve in a 3 day event? Perhaps some, but most would agree that long-term practice and training would most likely yield better results. As a result, we need to view l...
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Post Date: 2007-06-27 05:46:08
Another element that needs to be taken into consideration is a better understanding of how students/adults change behavior. Psychologists have been working on this for hundreds of years - why is leadership development any different? After all, we are asking human being’s to change behavior. Better understanding of these psychological approaches among practitioners hoping to “develop” leadership may be needed. For instance, from a student development perspective, we could look...
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Post Date: 2007-06-26 04:55:45
One way to re-frame leadership development is by moving from a strictly cerebral event to an activity with a practice field. One does not become an excellent baseball player strictly through participation in classroom activities. Of course it can be a part of the process, but all too often in leadership development, it ends up being the majority of the development experience. The event I spoke of yesterday (a team building event) can serve as a practice field, if it is linked to a set ...
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Post Date: 2007-06-25 11:00:58
I was with a group of juniors in high school this morning. They are taking part in a leadership development “camp” for five days. I helped with a short team building section - really easy, just your standard low ropes initiatives. Later today, they are taking part in the Enneagram. Interestingly, a few of the participants had completed some of the initiatives we had planned for them. This experience got me thinking. If these students are already REPEATING these initiatives as sop...
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