“My observation is that ‘leadership’ has become a corporate wank-word, a catch-all to describe a fuzzy mélange of personal and organisational actions and behaviours… [H]igh-profile organisations, aided and abetted by the media, take words like ‘leadership’ and use them to create complexity and opacity where none should exist.”
~ by Sam Steele from his latest article at the Footy Almanac titled ‘Does Leadership Matter?’
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Quote of the Day: On our “world leaders” - It is, of course, simply a recipe for encouraging mediocrity and box-ticking, discouraging entrepreneurial experimentation and innovation. For banishing competition and difference. To substitute conformity for innovation, and “conventional wisdom” for independent thought.
“Best practice” = the best excuse for mediocrity - Noody likes weasel words. Well, except for politicians, academics, salesmen, admen, planners, lawyers, MBAs, members of the American military and bureaucrats everywhere . . . apart from all of them, no one likes weasel words.
Weasel words – NOT PC - Want to talk like a wanker? Then here’s a list of phrases that will help define you…
How to talk like a wanker
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