Month: April 2014

‘The New Competence’ of Leadership

In the early 1980s, as the leadership movement was starting to gather momentum, Donald N Michael identified these five abilities for the agile leader in a fast changing new era. He called them ‘the new competence’. They are:\r\n

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  1. Acknowledging and sharing uncertainty

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  2. Embracing error

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  3. Responding to the future

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  4. Becoming interpersonally competent (i.e. listening, nurturing, coping with value conflicts etc.)

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  5. Gaining self-knowledge.

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\r\nMarking each of these out of 5, I wonder how I’m doing?\r\n\r\nI think, better than halfway, not quite three quarters.\r\n\r\nWork to be done.