Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Leadership part 2

An interesting article via BNET on Leadership development. Entitled 'A Systems Approach to Leadership' it begins, "What Is Leadership Anyway? Despite decades of research and a constant search for capturing and nurturing the essence of leadership, consistent, proven approaches to leadership development have proven elusive. The primary reason for varying perspectives and methods is that most definitions and development practices focus on selected aspects of the phenomenon. All to often popular literature and organizations latch onto the latest “reductionistic” fad hoping to create better leaders faster. Why doesn’t this work?"

It's a good short summary and worth a read. Register at BNET and try this direct link. It's written by Schoonover Associates, Inc and seems to tap into a few textbook ideas I've read and make sense.

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