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The leadership debate with Henry Mintzberg: Community-ship is the answer
We have this obsession with “leadership”. Its intention may to be to empower people, but its effect is often to disempower them. By focusing on the single person, even in the context of others, leadership becomes part of the syndrome of individuality that is sweeping the world and undermining organisations in particular and communities in general.
The leadership debate with Frank Brown: We don’t need more managers
Why do chief executives fail, regimes topple and elected leaders fall out of favour? It’s not a lack of leadership, per se, but instead a lack of leadership strength on the bench. Too often, those at the helm of companies believe that the best – and indeed, only – way to maintain control is to surround themselves with the classic “mirror image managers”: a team that listens and executes, but hardly challenges.
Henry Mintzberg: Biography
Henry Mintzberg is professor of strategy and organisation and holds a joint appointment at the Desautels business school at McGill University in his native Montreal and at Insead, in Fontainebleau and Singapore.
Frank Brown: Biography
Frank Brown was appointed dean of Insead in July 2006, following a 26-year career at accountants PwC. Most latterly he was Global Leader of the $3.5bn Advisory Services operating unit.
