Articles on engaging leadership
Mike King writes "Leadership is about people .." and he's 100% correct. You cannot lead if there is no-one to be engaged and led.
On LearnThis Mike provides 8 articles on engaging leadership ... and a whole host of other articles. Great stuff!
On LearnThis Mike provides 8 articles on engaging leadership ... and a whole host of other articles. Great stuff!
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Comment by Susan Stamm on January 11, 2009 at 5:21pm - David, I agree...We all have lots of hope for Obama but hopefully we will recognize our responsibilities. My hope is that his community organizing background will serve him in new and innovative ways in the white house, to mobilize this nation and wake it up from its coma. The increase in voters has was a good beginning, Now we need to roll up our sleeves and get busy.
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Comment by Mike King on January 11, 2009 at 4:26pm -
Thanks DLR! The series has been great to write so far and an article specifically about leadership being about people will be published on wednesday so I hope a few people check that out!
Thanks for the reference to Peter Block. I've never read anything of his so nice to get recommendations for good writers on a great topic.
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Comment by David Zinger on January 11, 2009 at 11:55am - I agree so much with the above statements. Leadership is about people,not resources or human capital. Peter Block is a wonderful writer. Susan I am away this week but I would wonder about Peter's thoughts on Obama as he elevated to rock star and beyond. I hope Obama makes everyone feel like a leader and be a leader, I am concerned that he will be seen as the political savior.
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Comment by Susan Stamm on January 11, 2009 at 11:01am
- BTW (by the way) I will be interviewing Peter Block on my show, Bookends this coming week and all are invited to attend (free of charge) Registration can be found here: http://www.teamapproach.com/bookends.htm
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Comment by Susan Stamm on January 11, 2009 at 10:59am
- DLR, I agree with King's assessment. I just finished reading Peter Block's book: Community- the Structure of Belonging and he makes some bold and challenging statements about leadership, mainly that we get it all wrong. We give leaders rock star status (my words not his). He feels we are not engaged as communities or as organizations because we are waiting for the leader to do it, fix it, etc. We all need to be leaders and we need to let go of our medieval ideas of pecking order and class to get to engagement.
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In my experience, achieving engagement creates huge increases in productivity per person, morale, retention, profits, sales, and every other "devoutly to be wished" result. So it is always worth the effort.
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Do two things: trust your employees unconditionally and give them more responsibility than they would ever expect; they will rise to the occasion and surpass all expectations.
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