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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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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