Leadership is "hot"
by Miki SaxonMore leadership on Raven’s Brain says, “gantthead has another great article on leadership: Hot Leadership. Author Bob Weinstein discusses the surge in leadership books and how the word itself – leadership – is becoming a trendy, hot topic, more of a buzzword than a impetus for better management through real leadership principles,” and includes an excerpt, but it was this comment on gantthead that caught my eye, “during the past 20 years, more has been written on leadership than in all of recorded history.”
Fascinating. Leadership is “hot,” so everyone who is trying to get ahead in whatever the effort or circumstances decide that being a leader is the path to success.
Do you know what you’d have if every person in a given organization who was trying to become a leader to ensure their own success succeeded? Chaos, total chaos.
Don’t misunderstand me, adding leadership skills to your skills arsenal is a great idea; setting out to “become a leader” is a totally different thing.
Think about it.
August 30th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Hi Miki – Good points. I particularly liked your closing “Don’t misunderstand me, adding leadership skills to your skills arsenal is a great idea; setting out to “become a leader” is a totally different thing.” As a PM I’m trying to bring a focus to leadership principles to highlight how much soft skills and leadership skills are missing in my industry.
Good articles and blog posts such as yours make me think deeper and help me to better understand what leadership is all about.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Thanks Raven. I appreciate what you’re trying to do. You might find it helpful to hang a hard copy of Lao Tzu’s short description of leadership from my previous post and following it. I guarantee you won’t go wrong!