Learning and practising Leadership breakthrough

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Popular myths about leadership

1. Leadership is the superior position

2. Leaders are charismatic, they possess some special gift

3. Leaders can separate emotion from work; they ought to be cool, aloof, and analytical

4. Leadership is reserved for only a very few of us5. The leader is a renegade who magnetises a band of

followers with courageous acts

Popular myths about leadership6. Leaders are visionaries with Merlin-like power7. The job of leadership is primarily one of control;

the control of resources, including time, money, materials or people

8. The job of leaders is to detach themselves from mundane, day-to-day work and invent a grand strategic plan

9. Companies should hire outside CEOs to stimulate fundamental change

10. It’s lonely at the top

The leadership challenge:“Just about every popular notion about

leadership is a myth. Our first leadership challenge is to rid ourselves of these traditions and myths. They foster a model of leadership antithetical to the way real-life leaders operate.”

Kouzes and Posner, The Leadership Challenge

The law of balance between continuity and change

What neverchanges

What always changes

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Our purposeOur valuesOur vision

PeopleStructuresProjects

Learning does not equal knowing

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