Should leadership for pro football, preschool, and open source software development look the same? Of course not. And leadership for knowledge-intensive work shouldn’t look like leadership for assembly lines. The Ark Group has just-published a new report: Successful Knowledge Leadership: Principles and Practice in which I authored the chapter: Knowledge Leadership on the Edge. The executive […]
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Do you think about boundaries?
On April 12, I (@4KM) was guest facilitator for an online twitter chat about boundaries. Specifically, we looked at whether the topic of boundaries is underplayed in leadership development and what that might mean for organizations, communities and the world. If you care about the nature and implications of boundaries. The chat was hosted by […]
And the prize goes to…
If you read my last post, you saw that we held a “twitter un-chat” as part of our efforts to include our offsite friends, colleagues and extended networks in our f2f #OCE2o12 event. It would be a bit strange to have a gathering of online community enthusiasts (OCE) without some online experimentation. The idea of […]
Epistemological Integrity
Yes, it is a weighty title, but I have searched for a term for years, and this is the best I’ve come up with. Most of us design learning opportunities. They might span an hour in a boardroom, months in a university environment, or years with children. Almost all workplace training I have seen for […]
Resisting pressure to fragment
Are you a systems thinker? Do you regularly encounter pressure to fragment? Do you get questions like “But what is your area of specialization?” Or comments like “But that project was never intended to include THAT.” I do. So–even though I rarely write blog posts–I started a new blog: www.IslandHealth.Info It’s explicitly about things like […]