Leadership sainthood
António Costa Amaral
Investment Executive & Advisor | IESE MBA ? PgMP PMP PMI-ACP Shaping Strategic Success across Capital Projects & Infrastructure
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'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