1 January 2006

First, my good wishes to you for the New Year.

What does 2006 hold for the field of leadership development?  Well, I for one am expecting some real progress.  For in 2004 and 2005 a lot of the old dead wood - outworn theories, practices and assumptions - were finally cleared away.  Now there is a much sharper line being drawn between what we know - or have rational grounds for holding to be true - and all that semi-academic bullshit that has plagued the field for so long.  The Oxford Dictionary defines bullshitting as 'to talk nonsense or as if one has specialised knowledge.'

My prediction is that we shall see a drastic reduction in the quantity of time and amount of money spent on so-called leadership development, but a gradual improvement in quality.  For there are some definite signs that the leading organisations in both the public and private sectors are at last waking up to the fact that they need a strategy for leadership development along the lines I advocated in my two 2005 books.  It promises to be an exciting and interesting year.

Quotable Quotes
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. .
Robert Louis Stevenson

ntegrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Dr Samual Johnson

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
Franklin D Roosevelt