LeadersDirect Topics - Time to think afresh

• LEADERSHIP: What is leadership? Conventional leadership theory is obsolete. It needs to change radically to fit our knowledge driven world. These pages offer a NEW theory of leadership. Issues explored include: Are there any born leaders? Are women better leaders than men? What is leadership style? What is servant leadership? What is transformational leadership? How can leadership be shown bottom-up?
• MANAGEMENT: What is management? How does management differ from leadership? Management skills - delegation, time management, communication, coaching, influencing skills and team building.
• SELF: Manage yourself more effectively - assertiveness, self esteem, career development, self development, anger control, stress tolerance, coping with personal transitions, making decisions.
• SRG - Leadership assessment, talent management and executive coaching. Info about us.

Most popular pages: Leadership, Leadership style, Servant leadership, Self Esteem

The main aim of this website is to promote a new vision of leadership, one that is independent of position and which shows how leadership can be bottom-up as well as top-down. The key point about leadership shown upwards is that it can come to an end once those in charge buy the new idea. This means that it is possible to show leadership without having anything to do with getting things done or managing people. The implication of this point is that leadership must be defined as the successful promotion of a new direction, leaving management the job of getting it done through people.

For example, Martin Luther King's protest against segregation on buses was targetted at government. This is leadership from the sidelines or bottom-up because King did not manage the implementation of his ideas. The U.S. Supreme court ruled segregation on buses unconstitutional and the government implemented this change of policy. King's leadership, therefore, ended once government bought his vision. Such leadership is nothing more than the promotion of a new direction. We need to move beyond leadership definitions that imply being in charge of people. Thought leadership is another example, where employees promote ideas to their bosses thus showing bottom-up leadership. See also Leadership for the Creative Class

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