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Nida Barros - Putting The Contradictions Back Into Leadership Development Slide
Nida Barros - Putting The Contradictions Back Into Leadership Development Slide
Nida Barros - Putting The Contradictions Back Into Leadership Development Slide
◉ Organizations are usually not very clear about why they do leadership
development
◉ Most development is leader development, aimed at individuals and their
skills, and reflects the enduring “allure of heroic leadership”
◉ Much leadership research suggests that distributed or collaborative
approaches are more appropriate to complex and uncertain conditions
◉ Lack of evaluation studies and the generally under-researched nature of
leadership development when compared with the long tradition of
research on leadership itself
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Example: W. L. Gore and Associates
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◉ For example, when leaders genuinely feel that they are empowering others whilst at
the same time they are manipulating them
◉ Leadership involves relations of power. The use of power provokes resistance,
resignation, toleration, non-cooperation, sabotage, etc
◉ Those who aspire to lead must figure out what leadership is in the context of what
they do and persuade themselves and others that they are doing it
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Non-heroic case studies
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CIPD: fostering employee engagement
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reflection
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