The Cranky Middle Manager Show #312 The Future of the MBA Ken Starkey
Canadians, Brits and the rest of you…. help me out
Posted on 21. Oct, 2008 by Wayne in General
In my last Management Issues article I spoke about the two leadership styles of John McCain and Barack Obama. Of course, i am aware that Galileo (the anti-american swine) discovered the center of the universe was not in Washington, DC. Canadians recently went through an election, voters in the UK will soon be asked to choose a new leader of Parliament. What are these leaders like?
I was writing to Jim Kouzes of The Leadership Challenge yesterday and asked him what he knew about the leadership styles of people like Stephen Harper, GordonĂ‚Â Brown and others…and the answer was a resounding “I dunno”. This isn’t a knock on Jim, it’s just that if you’re not there you don’t know- so help us out… post here or drop me a line…. what are you seeing out there about the ways leaders work in your country? We have listeners in 27 different countries by my count…. help us get smarter!
Admittedly, political leadership is only one kind of leadership and half the time it’s not real leadership at all (Big L Leaders vs. small l leaders and all that.) Still, they are on display and often make great case studies. What’s going on out there?