Leadership sainthood

Leadership sainthood

The internet - and especially LinkedIn - is awash with posts about leadership. Those posts describe, in no uncertain terms, the fenomenal characteristics of a good leader.

This is how these approaches come across:

  • I am here to tell you how to manage "good" instead of "bad" - so that you can stop beating your employers already.
  • Do this in order to be a good leader. Bother not with doing what's right because it's right - comply with this list.
  • Just take this practical advice - be perfect - a paragon of virtue - a saint.

I'm not shaming people who have nothing but love and empathy in their hearts when they share this type of content.

However, leadership is not a rehashed set of bulletpoints.

Let's hear about #wisdom -- how managers can overcome their shortcomings and?obstacles, and make the professional world somehow better.

Great ideas to move forward, obrigado, António. Rather than lists (Umberto Eco wrote a monograph on our obsession with them), concerning wisdom a way to move forward might be storytelling, as in Jerome Bruner, Deirdre McCloskey and Robert Shiller. Basically, a case study approach may often be a solid idea too (as taught so extensively at Harvard and at our alma mater, iese). To my preschool son, I keep reading parables and fables because of their underlying insights concerning growth/wisdom/personal development/interdependence, too

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