No More Heroes? #2

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.Now this might strike you as rather feeble.  Who cares what a thing is named?  It’s the meaning that matters!  The purpose of a name is to point to the...

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No More Heroes? #1

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’? A guy called John Huey was one of the first...

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