As usual, some of these slides will mean nothing if you're not hearing me narrate and ask questions along the way, but this was a Birkbeck College session about thinking of leadership as a collective, rather than individual concept. Bits of complexity, social media and self-organised networks stuff in there too... and Slideshare didn't like some of my fonts... c'est la vie!
Leadership: a body without a head, a web without a spider
1. Leadership: A body without a
head, a web without a spider
Liam Barrington-Bush, ConcreteSolutions.org.uk, @hackofalltrades
Photo by goatfarm53237 on Flickr, Creative Commons http://www.flickr.com/photos/goatfarm5237/
2. Leadership?
• Can it be learned?
– In a classroom?
• Is it ‘inherent’ to some?
• Is a skill?
• Is a quality?
• Is it an ethos?
3. Leadership
What does it look/feel like when it’s bad?
What does it look/feel like when it’s good?
4. Leader our
...as
grandparents
ship
imagined it...
• The Great Man Theories
• Trait theories
• Behaviourist theories
• Situational leadership
5. The problem(s) with ‘leaders’
1. They leave
2. It goes to their head
3. We create unrealistic expectations for them
4. They are easier to blame, than ourselves
5. It is harder to realise our abilities
6. They breed conformity
12. g the
world
without
‘leaders’
_________
_
For better
Red Osama image Creative Commons, Jaque Delarue
13. “[The] combination of shared meaning with
freedom to determine one’s actions is how
systems grow to be more effective and well-
ordered… People who are deeply connected to
a cause don’t need directives, rewards, or
leaders to tell them what to do.”
- Margaret Wheatley
15. What will stop you from
using these ideas in the
‘real world’?
16. You want more???
Leadership in the Age of Complexity: From Hero to Host
Margaret Wheatley w/ Debbie Frieze 2010
Walk Out Walk On
Margaret Wheatley w/ Debbie Frieze 2012
Getting to Maybe: How the world is changed
Frances Westley, et al. Vintage Canada 2006
17. ...now lead the way!
Liam Barrington-Bush
email: liam@concretesolutions.org.uk
web: www.concretesolutions.org.uk
twitter: @hackofalltrades
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Notas do Editor
Emergence: the unintended outcomes of a range of unrelated factors on a particular subjectAdd complexity to the mix and this becomes a very difficult combination to manage...
Link to online/offline communication – these were just the people Tweeting about it!Social media as ‘leadership’ - Trafigura
More accurately, without managers... What do Al Qaeda and Occupy have in common?
It relates to our values’ Scenarios...1. 2. 3.4.
jenga
Also mention Wisdom of Crowds, Weird Ideas that Work, Good Boss, Bad Boss...