LISTEN: The Leadership Mind authors Q&A
The Question and Answer session with the authors at the launch of The Leadership Mind is now available.
READ: Leadership from within
The Leadership Mind challenges us to let go of old ways of thinking about ‘leadership’ and to look afresh at this vital influence on all our lives.
LISTEN: Writing The Leadership Mind on the Win Happy Podcast
Professor Connell Fanning, Director of The Keynes Centre at UCC, in conversation with Greg Canty.
LISTEN: Challenging traditional views of leadership: interview with Karl Fitzpatrick, South East Radio
The authors on how they developed the concept of The Leadership Mind, how leadership is about ourselves and an inner capability, rather than job titles, and how we gain clarity about what is ‘leadership’ among the myriad of definitions out there.
READ: The gendering of leadership
Gendering of ‘leadership’ has been deeply ingrained in our everyday, unconscious thinking, especially male thinking, despite all the advances of recent decades.
READ: Where are the great speeches?
Boris Johnson, who fancied himself as a ‘political leader’, bid his farewell with a declarative “Hasta la vista, baby”, a demeaning utterance in the context of a retiring prime minister speaking to the mother of all parliaments, if ever there was one.
READ: What do we mean, when we use the word ‘leadership’? – Part 2
Boris Johnson defends himself against the charge that he is a “bad apple” (Kevin Brennan MP), saying “I am proud of the way I have been able to offer leadership in difficult times” (https://bit.ly/3yTlKUP). When you hear such from Johnson, what do you think he means by ‘leadership’?
