Raymond Morel 4793 days ago
Hamdan Bin Mohammed eUniversity – Annual Congress 2011
Theme:
Being at the Leading Edge – How to give the Quest for Excellence a New Meaning
Virtual Executives Club Dinner
Theme: “Collaborative Leadership”, the Recovery Act and Beyond
Collaborative Leadership and Irrational Exuberance
Sir John Daniel
Commonwealth of Learning
Introduction
It is a pleasure to be in Dubai and I thank you for the honour of addressing your Virtual Executives Club. Your theme is Collaborative Leadership: the Recovery Act and Beyond and I have entitled my contribution Collaborative Leadership and Irrational Exuberance.
As your first speaker this evening after the Chancellor’s gracious welcome it may be useful if I define some terms and sound some warnings. You are experienced executives and know that writing about management and leadership is full of fads and fashions – some of them signifying nothing. Collaborative leadership is a trendy term, but what is it? To those whose image is the leader as hero, it sounds like a contradiction, what we call an oxymoron, when two opposites are juxtaposed.
After exploring collective leadership I shall talk about the dangers of groupthink and irrational exuberance. You know all about groupthink and irrational exuberance in the business sector here so I shall take a different example. You are the Virtual Executives Club, so I shall recall irrational exuberance in the virtual world, the online world which is the home of our host tonight, the Hamdan bin Mohammed eUniversity.
That will lead me to reflect on strategic planning. I will suggest what makes a good plan and how collaborative leadership helps to create one. I shall use universities as my example, but what I have to say will be relevant to your own attempts at collaborative leadership.
Collaborative leadership
So what is collaborative leadership? I mentioned the oxymoron, a word they teach you in school for contradictory phrases like ......
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