In the first post of this series, No More Heroes? #1, I introduced the concept of post-heroic leadership and gave some reasons for its rise.  I also suggested that I have a problem with it, and here it is.  I don’t like the name.

The latest next big thing in management is something called ‘post heroic leadership’ (PHL).  ‘Post’ is one of those trendy prefixes – much like meta and multi – that keeps popping up everywhere.  Of course, it means after or subsequent to.  This being the case, just what exactly is ‘heroic leadership’?

In the first blog in this series I mentioned that I’m delivering (for the second time) a 1-day course in Queen’s University called What Men Want: How To Manage the Men in Your Life.  Although this is a course about men for women, it got me thinking about what it is – if anything – [...]