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Monday, December 19, 11

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I’m still learning to be me
in which case....

What do I mean by me?
What do I mean by society?
And, what do I mean by learning?

who are you?

This week we are going
to look at....
• How is work today different?
• What can I do to adapt?
• Why is lifelong learning important
• What is leadership and how is it different from
management?
• emotionally intelligent leadership
• coaching models and how to put them into practice
• leadership styles and how to adapt them to work.
• How to tell the difference between management
and leadership.
•

work now pygmalion 3000

and then 2250
• in 1905 the average
working year was 2900
hours
1500
• but the big difference:
• the idea of a consistent
working life has gone. 750
Lives are no longer lived
in a straight line. We
change jobs, we change
lives. We have ever 1906 0
1946
1988
changing identities...
UK Hours worked in a year (Hall, P. Social Capital in Britain, 1


Dostoevsky::

Deprived of meaningful work, men
and women lose their reason for
existence; they go stark, raving mad.

‘satanic mills’ - William B


Why are people
unhappy:
‘Musturbation’ or the
problem of high expectations - or
rational emotive behaviour
therapy (psychologist, Alber Ellis)

For me to be happy.....
Everyone must like me
Life must be easy
I must be succesful


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or to keep it really simple:
technology of the self
“regard”, “poetic
distance” - the capacity
to observe deeply
the capacity to reﬂect
to say “I screwed up”
to say “I’m sorry”
to say “I’m happy’ with
what i’ve got”
to say i won’t be doing
this for the rest of my
life..

bad, bad coaching pygmalion
like bad science
is everywhere: be
critical, be
sceptical
Wilhelm Reich, Austrian
psychotherapist and disciple of
Sigmund Freud, also invented the the
orgone accumulator. His theory being
that almost all psychological problems
could be solved with an optimal
orgasm. And the orgone accumulator
provided just that for Mailer, Salinger,
Burroughs and Kerouac

he later applied the same ‘science’ to
rainmaking....

and the orgone cloudburster

read more about Wilhelm in ‘adventures in the orgasmatron: how the
https://www.facebook.com/pygmalion2 sexual revolution came to America’, by Christopher Turner (2011)

Spanish chefs: A
• passion for what they do
success story
• apprenticeships away from home

• formal lifelong training
• interconnected
• hugely ﬂexible in hours, pay and
location

• learning for life and communication
with peers, conferences, congresses

• total ﬂexibility - constant movement
between restaurants

• Can you think of any more reasons
for their success


what does work expect
from you?
• Are you strong on collaborative
leadership
• Can you work as part of a team?
• Can you embrace change?
• How many languages do you speak?
• Lifelong learning?

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Learn this by Friday! Why exams are useless...

https://www.facebook.com/pygmalion2 Knud Illeris et al, (2009) Contemporary Theories of Learning, Routledge.

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lifelong learning... how do I have to learn?
transformative
assimilative learning learning
something which
school subjects: learning is changes us, our
cumulative and related closely personality and how
to a context. difﬁcult to access we see the world. This
outside this context. hurts!
transcendent
learning
something isolated
from context but forces
cumulative learning: us to rethink how we
your pin number do something.
your dog learning to sit accepting something
and internalising it.


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Think about your own experiences and those of colleagues in confronting a major change at work or in life.
1 How far did people’s responses follow the stages of the coping cycle?
2 Why do you think the reactions you describe were similar or different to those described in the stages above?

The coping cycle(Source: adapted from Carnall, 2007, p. 241.)


leadership


50000

but who pygmalion

wins? 37500

nasty 25000
nice
earnings
difference based
12500
on agreeability

men 0
women
Judge, T. A., Livingston, B. A., & Hurst, C. (2011, November 28). Do Nice Guys—and
Gals—Really Finish Last? The Joint Effects of Sex and Agreeableness on Income. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0026021


styles and schools of pygmalion

leadership controller:
scientiﬁc
• transactional management therapist:
• charismatic FW Taylor, mayo, maslow
• ubuntu etc up to
• transformational goleman,
charismatic: boyatzis, etc
• servant leadership
steve jobs, etc
• strategic leadership
danger - the
• team/eleadership eco leaders: ?
‘romance’ of
distributed,
• invisible leadership leaders
‘ecological’,
• collective leadership wiki
hiperconnect


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accountability

cultural ‘zeitgeist’ for
the 21st century.... or
is it ‘schadenfreude’?


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when do we do
leadership?
Imagine: you break
your leg. Your friends
take you to hospital.
This is a critical
situaton and the
response is clear.
At the hospital, the
doctors apply ‘elegant
solutions’. they use • command • critical
management and
follow process. • management • tame problem
But what type of
problem is it if you are • leadership • diabolical
taken to a restaurant? problem
adapted from Keith Grint ‘ wicked problems, clumsy solutions

elegant and clumsy
solutions - K Grint
increasing
uncertainty about
the solution

wicked lead

tame manage

critical command increasing need for
collaborative
solution

normative
coercion calculation
emotional
hard power rational
soft power


Global Warming:
group/grid model
Text Fatalists:
Nothing can be done. people are selfish.
Hierarchist
the rules should be stricter. Get a
the end of the world is inevitable
disciplinarian to enforce Kioto.
grid:
increasing rules
and regulations

Individualists Egalitarians
we need to encourage companies to
we need to consume less and move
create. market forces will solve the
towards sustainable community life
problem

Douglas, M, (2008/1966) Purity and Danger, Routledge.

group orientation

bibliography
Douglas, M, (2008/1966) Purity and Danger,
Routledge.

Grint, K, (2005) ‘Problems, Problems, Problems: The Social
Construction of Leadership’, Human Relations, 58,11, 1467-
1494.

G. Hamel, (2007), The Future of Management, Harvard

Knud Illeris et al, (2009) Contemporary Theories of Learning,
Routledge.

Michael Foley, (2010)The Age of Absurdity, Simon & Schuster

Richard Wiseman, 2010, 59 seconds.

Dave Grey et al, (2011) Gamestorming, O’Reilly.


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