'Leadership', 'management' and other sorry excuses for treating people like crap

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‘Leadership’, ‘management’ and other sorry excuses for treating people like crap* Liam Barrington-Bush, Concrete Solutions C.I.C. @ Birkbeck College 25 November 2010 *And a few of the nicer alternatives

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This is meant for a workshop-style class, so a lot of the slides simply ask questions or put ideas out there for discussion. Some slides w/ more detail can be found in this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/ConcreteSolutions/understanding-e-campaigning

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  • 1. Leadership, management and other sorry excuses for treating people like crap*
    *And a few of the nicer alternatives
    Liam Barrington-Bush, Concrete Solutions C.I.C.
    @ Birkbeck College
    25 November 2010

2. What does leadership mean to you?
3. Leadership?
Can it be learned?
In a classroom?
Is it inherent to some?
Is a skill?
Is a quality?
Is it an ethos?
4. Leadership
...as our grandparents imagined it...
The Great Man Theories
Trait theories
Behaviourist theories
Situational leadership
5. How does leadership relate to management?
6. Much of what we call management is still about practical application of the old leadership ideas, in organisations.
i.e.

  • Elitist

7. Controlling 8. Specialised 9. Impersonal