Brendan Cruickshank, a veteran of the online job search and recruiting industry, touches on employee leadership development.
Four Pivotal Insights on Hiring Leaders from the Ground Up
Posted by WorkSpace under ManagementFrom http://blog.winningworkplaces.org 5063 days ago
Made Hot by: Sun Tzu Business Guide on January 16, 2011 4:15 pm
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5062 days ago
It is also possible for a leader to land in a position where their ideas are valued and growth is always possible. Those jobs are rare and valuable. It takes a gutsy corporate outlook and upper management that will get out of the way and allow leaders to move forward without impediment.
5062 days ago
5063 days ago
The big problem with this list is that it creates the same kinds of over generalizations about leadership that it seeks to dispel. Things like eye contact or a good strong handshake are just too dependent upon personality and sometimes even cultural background, gender or other issues to be any kind of yardstick--not to mention almost impossible to judge in any kind of long distance online work environment where you may be hiring without even meeting the person face to face. And work history seems to be a paradox. We are both supposed to judge by a person's background/work history and yet at the same time we are NOT supposed to judge them that way. But perhaps the two biggest problems here are the fact that some leaders can't be hired but lead in certain circumstances once they have settled into a job or found their niche and that it is possible to pick the wrong kind of leader for your type of organization. A leader may, for example, have a vision for your organization that won't work given your business model or the character of your company and its customers. I'm not saying that it's impossible to hire leaders. I'm suggesting that leadership, just like success, is more a question of development at times than perhaps we realize. This, however, can also be good news because it means that leadership may not be as rare and hard to define as previously thought, but something that can be learned. Thanks for sharing the link!