Posts Tagged "Alexandre Havard"
Why the “right” decision is better than the “best” decision
We can all recall moments of regret, particularly as it relates to decisions we made that didn’t quite get the results we were looking for—a word that should not have been spoken, or an act that can not be undone. This shouldn’t be confused with decisions that often have to...
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Is it time to change the leadership dialog?
Is leadership changing? Does it need to change? Is there a need for a different leadership paradigm in the light of some well-known corporate collapses and the fallout from the Global Financial Crisis of 2008/09 (GFC) that continues to reverberate far and wide? It seems the leadership literature is beginning...
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Character: Does it really impact the bottom-line?
I’m sitting on a Virgin Airlines flight returning home contemplating the dialogue and the questions asked from some of the 70 business executives and leaders attending a breakfast sponsored by Bridgeworks at the Hilton on the Park, Melbourne, Australia. I was asked to speak on ‘Leadership: More Than Competence’, and...
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The Geopolitics of Leadership
This week I am off to Seoul, the Republic of Korea, for my final study intensive towards my Doctorate in Leadership and Global Perspectives through George Fox University. For three consecutive years we have travelled to different parts of the world to learn about the intricacies of leadership and the...
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The greater conflict for leaders lies in the priority they assign to virtues and how they influence the big and small decisions
We’ve often heard it said that there are two things certain in life – “taxes, and death.” While there are many things we could add to the list, there is one thing that many would find difficult to object to: Conflict. Conflict is both inevitable and pervasive and is intricately...
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How does culture influence an organization’s future-orientation?
The fifth and final cultural dimension is long-term versus short-term orientation; the GLOBE study calls it “future orientation.”[1] In building this construct, Hofstede, Hofstede, and Minkov, incorporated specific findings from the Chinese Value Survey (CVS) that was administered to students from twenty-three countries. In total, it measured 40 Chinese values...
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How does culture shape leaders and the virtues they adopt?
In numerous articles, I have addressed the importance of virtues in a leader’s life, and how the degree to which they are absent or present can define that leader’s character and the impact it will have on his or her ability to lead others. There is a considerable difference between...
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In search of organizational virtue
In respect to modern leadership, the discussion and debate on the notion of virtue could not be more relevant. In a series of articles I have continued to deepen our understanding of virtue, its origin and nature, while acknowledging differing opinions concerning the degree to which virtue may be learned...
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“The failure of success, the corruption of triumph, and the danger of celebrity”
It can be argued that because a person’s moral beliefs give rise to actions, they also define the substance of a person’s character (or lack thereof) and reveal the underlying motivations for why certain decisions are made: and that they each reflect a means to an end. As Alasdair MacIntyre...
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Does leadership have to be all ‘Greek’?
No, I’m not talking about the Greek economy or the escalating European debt, nor am I talking about language. In my research and work with leaders I am continuing to explore the degree to which the absence or presence of virtues can define the character of a leader, and how...
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