Thursday, 26 January 2012

The Structure of Real World Leadership Networks

Structural issues are at the heart of all good leadership thinking.  Brilliant design is essential, whether it is for a digital gadget, a musical composition, a physical landscape, a...

...blog-pamphlet, a delicious meal, a google doodle or a global economy.

All structures require a network of resources, capacities and influences.  If those structures are to be stable and successful, they will also draw upon the wonderful benefits of openly appropriate communication, cheerfully playful insights, and suitably inspired creativity.







As an ethereal leadership personage of world renown, I am often called upon to offer my opinions on policy possibilities, global risks and ambiguous harmonies.  I therefore find it quite amusing that many other persons who wish to contribute to good leadership do not even know the difference between outputs and impacts, just as many persons who seek power in one form or another usually display an inability to distinguish between a structure and a success.

Even the contributors to think tanks, otherwise known as employees of policy institutes, rarely make clear distinctions between one thing and another, as a recent report has shown.  Networks of enlightened leadership throughout organisations, and between them, are necessary to expose possible risks and to successfully address those risks before they manifest themselves in unpleasant ways.

Identifying impacts and successes is an art, relying upon intuitive and emotional indications as well as the rational, technical and financial.  Identifying structures, trends and risks is a science, relying upon a universally applicable methodology.

Well, you may be wondering why I am mentioning such things on an Australian public holiday.   The World Enlightenment Forum is now well underway, of course, and as it is going to be a hot day on the Fleurieu Peninsula, I have, like any sensible leader, made an early start, having already sought out one of the most reliable and informative networks, well before sunrise.  Now my carriage and somewhat Houyhnhnmous  horses await me, so I must set off on my way.

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