Monthly Archive for January, 2007

Natural or Unnatural – that is the question

Currently reading Dotlich and Cairo’s book titled, ‘Unnatural Leadership’ with the subtitle, ‘Going against intuition and experience to develop ten new leadership instincts’. So what are these 10 ‘new leadership instincts’?

Well here they are in the order in which they were given…
Refuse to be a prisoner of experience
Expose your vunerabilities
Acknowledge your shadow side
Develop a right-verses-right decision making mentality
Create teams that create discomfort
Trust others before they earn it
Coach and teach rather than lead and inspire
Connect instead of create
Challenge the conventional wisdom

I then got to wondering just how it was that, in the corporate environment, we could have perverted that, which in the context of human relationships, was the natural order, to such as extent that it is now regarded as unnatural? It seems that what was originally unnatural was able to first usurp and then masquerade as the natural order but all that is about to change once more as the natural state of things turns unnatural in order to displace the real unnatural natural!

Ummmm.

Cutting Costs reaches its event horizon

David Beckham, Ted Koppel, CNN and Sky

How not to apply for a job

The Company of the Future

Top 10 Hottest Jobs in 2007

WH Smith closes pension fund

Wanted: Baby Boomers in the workplace

Apple iPhone

YouTube – YouBuscuit

Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

Fat Cats march on in 2007

Be a Reporter for CNN (or not!)

Batteries not included

Weeping, by Josh Groban (errr, actually Bright Blue)