On Leadership

These article are very informative and bring in a totally new approach...

1)
http://www.ispso.org/Symposia/Paris/2001french.htm

The above is on 'negative capability' An excerpt from the article is as below:

"Negative Capability suggests a peculiarly human capacity for ‘containment’: that is, the capacity to live with and to tolerate ambiguity and paradox, and to ‘remain content with half knowledge’ (Ward, 1963, p. 161), ‘to tolerate anxiety and fear, to stay in the place of uncertainty in order to allow for the emergence of new thoughts or perceptions’ (Eisold, 2000: 65). It implies the capacity to engage in a non-defensive way with change, without being overwhelmed by the ever-present pressure merely to react. It also indicates empathy and even a certain flexibility of character, the ability ‘to tolerate a loss of self and a loss of rationality by trusting in the capacity to recreate oneself in another character or another environment’ (Hutter, 1982: 305)."



2)
http://www.zulenet.com/vladimirdimitrov/pages/Leadership-and-Change.html

The above is a complexity perspective on leadership and Change. An excerpt from the article is as below:

"What is possible for a leader to achieve, through earnest individual efforts, it is knowledge and practical skill how

- to lead oneself through the labyrinth of life while nourishing and realising his/her creative potential;

- to become self-aware: alert of what s/he feels, thinks, experiences and intuit;

- to be responsible for his/her own thoughts and feelings, words and deeds;

- to live in the present – to see the world with unprejudiced and open mind as it is now , and not as it was in the past or as it might be in the future,

- to strive after wisdom – the faculty of seeing the whole in the ‘parts’ and the infinite in the finite, – harmony – the faculty of experiencing the unity of the existential forms and the eternal rhythm of their dynamics, - and freedom - the faculty of self-finding, self-expression and self-realisation within the universal laws of the existential dynamics operating at each and all scales of manifestation: organic and inorganic; animate and inanimate; physical and psychic; individual and social; outer and inner; micro and macro."