Part 2 of Pam’s conversation with John A. Byrne, former editor at BusinessWeek and Fast Company, about leadership and his latest project Poet & Quants. Plus Leadership in the News, Wally Bock’s best of the independent business blogs, and more great podsafe music.
It’s mid to late August and things are heating up. It’s one reason I love being on a college campus – the energy. Another school year is on the horizon and I am excited to get back in the classroom.
As someone who spends a lot of time on campus, I am constantly viewing activities and opportunities through the lens of leadership development. However, the number of missed opportunities for development amazes me and the lack of connections across campus seem wasteful.
For instance, there are any number of speakers series that are sparsely attended, yet could serve as a wonderful experience for the emerging leaders program. ROTC, the school of business, the leadership minor and student activities all do leadership development on some level, yet the coordination among these entities is next to nil.
So what does the savvy leadership educator do? He or she starts building relationships, making connections and capitalizing on the resources that already exist.
I am convinced that a really powerful leadership develpment program could be designed with a very small budget (or someone else’s budget). Don’t believe me? Just start looking around campus or your community and you will start to see the opportunities.
A couple of years ago I had the great fortune of meeting Scott Allen while attending Harvard Kennedy School’s The Art and Practice of Leadership Development. The program was very intense so it was comforting to meet and strike a friendship with Scott and several other participants like his friend Ed O’Malley (Weekly Leader 22 and 23) to share leadership and personal experiences.
I am pleased and excited to announce that Scott has agreed to join the Weekly Leader Team. In addition to teaching leadership at John Carroll University, Scott has been published extensively in leadership journals around the globe. He is the co-author, with Marcy L. Shankman, of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: A Guide for College Students (Jossey-Bass) and the corresponding suite of resources (Workbook, Facilitation and Activity Guide). His accomplishments in the field are too numerous to list here but you can read more on his Weekly Leader Team profile page.
Scott will probably be writing a lot about leadership education but he has a driving passion for the subject so I imagine we’ll benefit from a diversity of posts.
It would be a mistake to think of Organic leadership as simply a free, open, adaptive type of methodology, or the opposite of the traditional Organizational approach. Rather the Organic grows out of the strengths of the old system to become what the former structure could not produce.
One of the great features of Weekly Leader’s new partner MeetTheBossTV are these great segments called “One thing I know about business.” They are short and focused on delivering good, solid practical advice from some pretty impressive leaders.
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