Posted by Glenn Francis on Thursday, May 21, 2009,
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Followership
It used to be that people who held leadership roles were often the most educated, skilled, or experienced of a group. The group trusted that person’s judgement because of his or her knowledge, skill and experience. The better the leader”s ability to translate his or her background into vision and success, the more impressive the results the group could achieve. Look back in history at societies and institutions before mass education and you can find thousands of examples.
Posted by Glenn Francis on Wednesday, March 4, 2009,
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Leadership
I just came from a meeting on leadership development for a health care consulting organization. We talked at great length about how their clients were keen to develop leadership capabilities, especially the soft skills. Admirable very standard goals.
Whenever I find myself in discussions like this one though, some part of my mind - the part influenced by Peter Drucker - is shouting that followership develoment is more important. My mind jumps to Drucker's definition of "executive" as anyone i...
