This Working Life
Defining leadership in business as more than an empty word
Organisations and executives often fail to understand the meaning of leadership, and this confusion is perpetuated by the promotion of ‘thought leadership’, a idea that seeks to sell itself by any means
Professor Connell Fanning and Dr Assumpta O’Kane of the Keynes Centre at University College Cork are the authors of The Leadership Mind, which is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle, and can be ordered at Waterstones Cork and other good bookshops. See theleadershipmind.org for more details.
Despite the many millions of words written on the subject, there is not yet a settled answer to the question of what is leadership.
In a survey we ...
