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Introductory lecture for the MSc in Sustainable Leadership. The lecture takes a critical and interactive persepctive on leadership and the leadership 'industry' with an emphasis on the paradox of leadership
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- 1. MSc Sustainable Leadership Gregory Borne Gregory.borne@plymouth.ac.uk
- 2. Theoretical and Practice Approaches to Leadership The Paradox of Leadership Gregory Borne Recap on Last Week Module Overview Introduction to module aims Introduction to the timetable Introduction to Leadership talks in semester two Todays Lecture 1300-1500 1. The leadership paradox three distinct case studies (15 mins) 2. Leader reflection in pairs (20 mins) 3. Group discussion on leadership (30 mins) 4. Reading exploration 5. Overview
- 3. By the end of the session you will - • Have an overview of leadership theory and associated practice • Developed a critical approach to leadership • Explored personal and group dimensions of leadership
- 4. Definitions of Leadership? Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal (Northouse 2015:6) - SIMPLE No central concept of leadership has yet emerged, in part because scholars have worked in separate disciplines and sub disciplines in pursuit of different and often unrelated questions and problems (Burns: 1978)’ INTERDISCIPLINARITY There are almost as many definitions of leadership as there are persons who have attempted to define the concept (Stoghill 1974:258). AMBIGUOUS `Essentially contested concept; revealing a number of different ways of thinking about the phenomena that makes consensus highly unlikely." Grint (2005) CONTESTED Despite the publication of more than 20000 books on leadership over the years, we are still not entirely clear what leadership is, or how it works or even who leaders are’ (Witzel et al 2016:1) NO CONSENSUS I’m uneasy, increasingly so about leadership in the 21st century and the gap between the teaching of leadership and the practice of leadership. Moreover, im downright queasy about what I call the leadership industry’ ( Kellerman 2012: 1) CRITICAL Our Proposition is that the time has come to revitalise leadership, to radically rethink what should constitute its purpose , focus and the role it plays in our organisations (Wilson et al 2017) REVITALISE
- 5. Sustainable Development/ Epistemological approach Development that meets the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (Brundtland 1987- Our Common Future) Sustainable Development provides a way of accommodating complexity • Ethical approach • About holistic approach • About making connections • About considering environmental, social and economic dimensions • About the Global and the Local
- 6. Leadership as paradox Leadership Paradox: Rethinking Leadership for an Uncertain World Bolden's 3 paradoxes (2016) 1. In attempting to identify and measure the essence of leadership we may inadvertently loose sight of the thing we are seeking to capture 2.To Better understand leadership we should spend less time understanding leaders 3.The most effective leadership is where leadership is not required
- 7. Research Case Studies 1.Leadership at the International Scale United Nations Paradox 1: In attempting to identify and measure the essence of leadership we may inadvertently loose sight of the thing we are seeking to capture 2.Leadership at the Local Scale Town and parish councils Paradox 2.To Better understand leadership we should spend less time understanding leaders 3.Cross sectoral Leadership Sustainable Surfing Paradox 3.The most effective leadership is where leadership is not required
- 8. 1. United NationsParadox 1: In attempting to identify and measure the essence of leadership we may inadvertently lose sight of the thing we are seeking to capture Case Study Four month ethnographic work based at UN headquarters in New York. Worked as advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme. Resolution negotiation – NEPAD/ Oceans and Law of the Sea Interaction with leaders on a cross sectoral cultural basis. My Preconceptions Heroic Trait Power Came away from that period realising that in practice I knew very little about what leadership actually is and a need to formulate new ways of understanding the context Muilt-cultural Complexity - ‘a need to open up the tool box of leadership’ Relationship between reflexive modernity, risk and sustainable development A Framework for Sustainable Global Development and the Effective Governance of Risk (2010)
- 10. 2. Town and Parish Councils Paradox 2. To Better understand leadership we should spend less time understanding leaders Not conventionally seen as sites of leadership • Largest research project of its kind in the UK with an investment of over £200000 • Multiple partners, local government and NGO’s • All Town and parish councils in Devon and Cornwall • 6000 survey (70 per cent response rate) • 200 interview across Devon and Cornwall Networks and flows Characterised TPS councils as a nexus point of flows. Leadership Perspectives Post – heroic Leadership Servant Distributed leadership Book: The Role of Parish Councils in Leading for Sustainable Communities, Routledge, 2018
- 11. 3. Sustainable Surfing Paradox 3. The most effective leadership is where leadership is not required Hybrid conceptualisations of leadership Relationship between heroic and post heroic Three step process • Identify the perceived agents for change (leaders) • Explore their context • Explore the full system impact to understand the realty of transitions to sustainability -Apply a sociotechnical transitions framework Information technology – non directive leadership Distributed Leadership Leading from the middle Climate change – a wicked problem
- 12. Sustainable Stoke Transitions to Sustainability in the Surfing World
- 13. Academic Perspective Research Process The Sample Elicit perspectives of leaders and opinion formers within the surfing world on a multi-sectoral basis Contextual Distributed Multisectoral Industry Government Media NGO Celebrity Science Leadership
- 14. Research Overview Evolution of understanding the definition of leadership An evolving research field with a focus on leadership A focus on uncertainty, complexity and paradox REVITALISATION (Wilson et al 2017) Sustainable Development Socio- Technical Transitions Leadership Complex adaptive systems Risk society Globalisation United Nations Surfing and Sustainability Town and parish councils
- 15. Next 20 minutes Please get into pairs and spend 20 minutes discussing what you understand as leadership
Editor's Notes
- But its actually very fitting that the conference is based on the book because, and whilst there was a glimmer in my eye of it – it was actually book actually conceived the day after the life the day after the 2012 equivalent of this conference. Its strange really, because I have to confess that I haven't actually looked at the book since I submitted the final manuscript at the end of April – The last few months of putting the book together were fraught with problems and I pushed very hard to make sure that it was published on time – sort of – in actuality we moved the publication date 3 time so actually the book is 18 months late – it wasn’t all my fault. But the main reason I haven't been able to pick it up is firstly I'm too worried that ill spot a mistake, secondly I know that revisiting it after any length of time ill want to do things differently and thirdly the world moves on and things change – a lot has happened in surfing since April and sure enough as ive reread the book the contributions and Jess and myself our assessment of that contributor have said there are things that I would have done very differently- But that is the nature of the world and that is the nature of knowledge – nothing is static what we know today we unknown tomorrow and relearn in a years time. I see that as a strength – though from a personal point of view – I find it very difficult to make a decision – about anything as I change my mind constantly. But at the same time I am even more excited about what we have achieved – I have been working with issues that relate to sustainability for a long time and I don’t know of another situation where so many people from different backgrounds have come together Meeting everyone that is in the book, been involved with it , advised on it has been a real priveledge – some of whom are in the room today and some of whom you are going to hear form during the course of the conference Obviously everyone has a copy of the book Center for Surf research is giving them away for free. Actually these books are printed and distributed in a facility only 10 minutes from my house in Plymouth so they have travelled the same distance that I have to be here with you today – But hopefully you wont be sending them back Introduce myself – what surfing means to me I'm the new boy on the block here and im from a country that where I still get asked the question – so there's surf in the UK – well yes there is quite a lot – were a small island bounded by the Atlantic, the English channel and the North sea
- What I want to do is outline the research that ive been involved with over the past three years – the first real substantive output of this is going to be next year in a monograph with routledge next year – what I want to do is just map out what it is im doing and the relationship between the theoretical perspective that im currently working on and the relationship with the multiple multiple empirical cae studies that im working with