All about the leader
We have been reviewing the argument against individual leadership in modern organizations. We have discussed the problems with the concept being associated with the person rather than the work at hand...
View ArticleReverse-engineering leadership
Have you ever had a boss that clearly had his (or her, of course) act together? He seemed to have all the answers, could grasp the core issue of a problem and resolve it on the fly, and understood...
View ArticlePicking up where we left off
A new start This site has just changed web hosts, and will be undergoing some adjustments here and there as it settles in to its new home. Please do bear with me during this. I would like to note that...
View ArticleManagement is local
The modern leadership movement (MLM) works hard to promote the theory that there is a universal model of leadership, if you will, that unites the standard concept of leadership with the quantum...
View ArticleLost in leaderland
When a field of “knowledge” is addressed by “scientists” or, at least, by professed students of that field, it is only fair that we should be able to expect a few things to emerge from their...
View ArticleLeadership is loco
We have argued extensively that the modern leadership movement-marketed (MLM) concept of individual leadership in organizations is not merely misplaced, but that it in fact is: at best irrelevant more...
View ArticleLosing track of leadership
The concept of individual leadership and its role in organizations, as promoted by the Modern Leadership Movement (MLM), is, as we have seen, anything from a merely distracting to an outright...
View ArticleLosing leadership
Let’s review. Here’s the original list of issues we decided to examine at the beginning of this series. Each link will take you to the post (or first of several posts) addressing that item. It is...
View ArticleAmateur Hour
In the course of this current series, we have seen that the general concept of individual leadership in organizations suffers from a debilitatingly long list of failures. It lacks system, it defies...
View ArticlePutting leadership in its place
In this series we’ve attempted to make the case for why managers should abandon the essentially irrelevant (to say the least) concept of individual leadership. As we’ve discussed, whatever version you...
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