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The creative class will rule the 21st century according to Richard Florida1. Creative class employees are innovative knowledge workers. If Florida is right, a massive power shift will make creative class employees the new leaders.
Read more: Creative Class Leadership Agreement is nearly universal that leadership can be learned. If leadership means being an executive, then there are clearly learnable skills for this role. But if leadership is an occasional act of influence, not a role, then it's not so clear what can be developed.
Read more: Growing Leaders Despite valiant efforts to separate leadership from management, they remain entangled. Many equate them. Some ignore management or confine it to a menial maintenance role operating in the engine room "keeping things ticking over."
Read more: Leadership and Management Reinvented When we think about leadership we envisage being in charge of a group, not how to show leadership viewed as a discrete act. This is hugely disempowering. First, we overlook occasional acts of leadership shown by people who don't have what it takes to BE a leader, including ourselves.
Read more: Showing Leadership The idea that women are better leaders than men is gaining ground. Post-heroic leadership is all about collaboration, relationships and nurturing talent. Men, it is claimed, are too individualist, competitive and aggressive, too lacking in feminine interpersonal skills to lead in this new arena.
Read more: Are Women Better Leaders Than Men? The unending debate about leadership traits can’t be resolved without an agreed definition of leadership. Conventional leadership means being in charge of a group, formally or informally. Such leaders influence their groups to pursue a goal and they coordinate efforts to achieve it.
Read more: Leadership Traits: Three Perspectives Leadership, as normally conceived, is an intra-group phenomenon: leaders occupy roles within groups, either formally or informally. Being role occupants, leaders are reference points for the resolution of group issues. From their dominant position within the group, they have authority to make decisions that affect the group’s well-being.
Read more: Leadership of The Outsider Here are 3 popular ways of defining leadership, each from a slightly different perspective: 1. Leadership means being the dominant individual in a group. 2. Leadership means getting things done through people. 3. Leadership means challenging the status quo, promoting a better way.
Read more: Three Ways of Defining Leadership The meaning of leadership is inexorably shifting from masculine to feminine, from calling the shots to engaging, coaching and nurturing employees. The risk is that real leadership will be lost in the shuffle, a classic case of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Read more: Is Leadership Feminine?We have 21 guests online
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