Business needs
leaders at every level
Every business category
today suffers serious
workplace issues that
undermine performance –
stress, poor teamwork,
demotivation, work
overload and underload,
inefficiency, conflict,
and more. The only thing
that can resolve these
issues is leadership at
all levels, from the
coalface to the
boardroom.
Unfortunately, our world
is obsessed with
skills-training and
quick-fix solutions, and
produces plenty of
misleaders and
non-leaders, but very
few leaders. To be a
leader takes vision,
wisdom, good character,
and a sound knowledge of
human nature, all of
which flow from on-going
education, based on the
lessons of history and
philosophy.
Andre
recently
talked to
Chris
Laidlaw on
Radio New
Zealand's
Sunday
Morning, on
Sunday 24
July 2011.
Press play
to hear the
interview.
The Leaders &
Misleaders Project
is a response to this
worldwide need. It
inspires and equips
people at all levels to
grow daily as leaders,
driving their own
education on the
guidelines provided.
This helps your
business, organization,
or community to develop
a culture of leadership
which is robust and
self-sustaining.
Working through this
web-site and the
incorporated
Blog,
as well as through the
books, Leaders &
Misleaders – a
psychology of progress
and regress, and An
Educational Bridge for
Leaders, to be released
in mid-2010, and a
projected series of
DVDs, the project will
also be carried forward
by workshops and
conference keynote
addresses.
New blog to promote
dialogue on leadership &
misleadership in business
Publisher’s Press
Release for Leaders
and Misleaders
Finally
Addressing the
Leadership Crisis
At last
someone has
produced a
book that
directly
addresses
the problem
rather than
the symptoms
of the
leadership
crisis in
business,
politics,
and the
professions.
Andre
van Heerden’s
Leaders and
Misleaders – the art
of leading like you
mean it flays the
misguided belief
that we can produce
leaders through
skills-training and
quick-fix solutions,
and insists that the
key is
character-development
and the fomenting of
wisdom through
on-going education.
Giving skills to
people of negative
character will see
those skills
misused, and this is
why our society
tends to produce
misleaders rather
than leaders.
The Global Financial
Crisis of 2008/9 saw
many prominent
business and
political heads
brought low as
corporate
malfeasance and
political corruption
made regular
headlines, and
millions of people
lost their
livelihoods, life
savings, and more
through the actions
of those they had
trusted to lead the
companies they had
invested in. ...Read more
It’s a conversation
being carried on all
over the world,
unstructured,
sporadic, and
unfocussed, but
vitally important to
us all. Now a new
blog aims to give it
direction and a
compelling voice for
change.
Misleadership in
business, as well as
politics, the
bureaucracy, and the
professions, is rife
in the western
world. For all the
billions of dollars
spent on the skills
training and “How
to” literature that
is supposed to
produce new and
capable leaders, the
scarcity of
leadership has never
been greater.
Where
are the
inspirational
visions to take us
beyond the current
malaise of social,
political, economic,
environmental, and
business
dysfunction? Where
is the trust and
mutual respect
without which
democracy and
personal freedom
will continue to be
eroded, and business
will keep struggling
for answers?
Inspired by the
insights and
revelations of the
up-coming book
“Leaders &
Misleaders – the
psychology of
progress and
regress”, the new
blog will provide a
forum designed to
strengthen the hand
of those who bear
the burdens of
misleadership in
business or the
community or the
nation at large. The
stories and
experiences of
others will
encourage all to
have their say and
to demonstrate that
there is far more
cross-cultural
agreement on what
people want from
their leaders than
is commonly admitted
by people in
authority.
Add your voice to
the call for greater
accountability and a
return to integrity
in the business,
politics, and the
community – log on
to the Blog
Leaders & Misleaders
– the psychology of
progress and regress
An Educational Bridge
for Leaders
– a
program for growing
daily as a leader
Leadership &
Creativity
– you can
only build the future
with new ideas
Leaders Think;
Misleaders Scheme
– and
most managers just
follow the formula
Leading Relationships
–
exploding the myth of
office politics
Leaders & the People
Problem
– understanding
personality, character,
and human nature
Leader shapes Culture
shapes Brand
–
leadership is always the
on-going challenge
What Does Morality
have to do with
Business?
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Business ethics in an
unethical age
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