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Leadership, Continued – Part Two

Posted on | July 4, 2011 | No Comments

Leadership development theory, by putting words and practice to the more successful, organic practices of past groups and old communities, becomes a system and structure of carefully organized dances. Peter Senge (1990) believes that this structure influences our behavior. Often certain beliefs that ruled groups of people were dropped because of their discontinuity issues. Either something better was offered or the guiding principles no longer applied. Humans have survived for ten thousand years without having to attend seminars and read books on leadership skills and learn successful mobilization of individuals and key elements. History is also filled with examples of unsuccessful leadership, poor misdirected leaders and autocratic team (and nation) building theories. Each era, medieval, pre-industrial, post-industrial, and new age has developed ideas that have added and detracted from the concepts of collective improvement and adult development with serious consequences.  As each organization theory is created and evolves, the transcendental living communities of the mid nineteenth century as an example, the benefits and shortcomings become apparent to the stakeholders. Trade unions are created, living communities dissolve under fractious conditions, and companies slowly change for better and worse (Senge, 1990).

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Senge, P. (1990). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization. New York, NY: Doubleday Press. Shawn Nichols, MA, CC. shawnnichols.com
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