The Leadership Challenge* by James Kouzes and Barry Posner is a very inspiringbook that has understandably motivated a lot of people to rise to significantchallenges in their organizations and other areas of their lives. While Kouzes andPosner provide a very thorough portrayal of a certain kind of leadership, their theoryexcludes a type of leadership that is increasingly vital in our knowledge driven world:Thought Leadership. The focus of Kouzes and Posner might be called ValuesLeadership. The former refers to how new ideas are generated and assimilated whilethe latter pertains to how we should live.Thought leadership has a factual basis whilevalues leadership is normative. It is essential to develop a theory of thought leadership if we are to understand the impact of innovation on organizational success and progress in life generally. It is not just that thought leadership is important in its own right, but that a one-sided concern with values leadership creates a distorted picture of leadership in general. The result is that Kouzes and Posner’s theory is atbest a special case of leadership but, in fact, I believe it can be shown to beinaccurate in some very important respects if we want a general theory of leadership.Fonte
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Liderança Inspiradora
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May 23 2010, 11:30am | Comments »
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