Category: Care and Growth
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Legitimate Leadership and the Issue of Control
The effect of this is that the organisation starts to behave more like an organism than a machine.
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Empowerment and the Incremental Suspension of Control (Video)
A video on the role of control in the context of the Care and Growth Leadership Model
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Care and Growth and Benevolent Intent: Telenor Pakistan (Video)
A video of Etsko Schuitema discussing the issue of benevolent intent in the context of Telenor Pakistan.
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Introducing Care and Growth (Video)
A presentation on the Care and Growth criteria to a group of people from RMB Private Bank in 2008
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Value-driven Behaviour in Leadership
This suggests that true giving requires a person to act for a reason which is higher than their self-interest. Giving requires that we set aside our needs and act instead on the basis of values.
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Four Steps to Cultivate Accountability in a Victim
A victim is a person who accounts for misfortune in their lives on the basis of what the other does to them. Overcoming victim-hood requires accountability.
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Is Micro-Managing Always Bad?
Executives and managers call such an interest “micro-managing”. They feel that it is not their job to involve themselves in the job of their subordinates, their job is to ensure that the subordinates achieve the required results.
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How to Hold People Accountable
It has to be clear, however, that what we put forward as accountability is not the same thing as holding people accountable for results.
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Empowerment and the Incremental Suspension of Control
The nature of control is to waste value. They function like the brake in a car. Every time you apply the brake you by definition waste energy that has already been put into the system.
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Legitimate Leadership and the Limitations of Democracy
This suggests that the democracy/autocracy debate is fundamentally a red herring that diverts the attention from the real question of legitimacy