http://managingleadership.com/blog/2007/10/04/quite-rightly/ The strategic role of the senior executive Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:35:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://managingleadership.com/blog/2007/10/04/quite-rightly/comment-page-1/#comment-2550 The effect of a self confident leader on an organization | Managing Leadership Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:24:10 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/2007/10/04/quite-rightly/#comment-2550 [...] Does that ring true to you, about leaders like this, who establish their leadership on the basis of their rock-solid self-confidence in their own abilities and vision? We saw, perhaps, an example in yesterday’s essay that may give us pause in this regard. You may want, as well, to visit this one, also alluded to yesterday, for another perspective on the distortions this sort of overweening self-confidence can generate. [...] [...] Does that ring true to you, about leaders like this, who establish their leadership on the basis of their rock-solid self-confidence in their own abilities and vision? We saw, perhaps, an example in yesterday’s essay that may give us pause in this regard. You may want, as well, to visit this one, also alluded to yesterday, for another perspective on the distortions this sort of overweening self-confidence can generate. [...]

]]> http://managingleadership.com/blog/2007/10/04/quite-rightly/comment-page-1/#comment-2234 We can never really be sure who or when someone is being smart or stupid | Managing Leadership Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:50:44 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/2007/10/04/quite-rightly/#comment-2234 [...] So what does that mean with respect to dummies thinking that they are smarter than they really are? For one thing, it throws our assumption of self-contented superiority, in the presence of that dismissive observation, into grave doubt. And, I might add, quite rightly. [...] [...] So what does that mean with respect to dummies thinking that they are smarter than they really are? For one thing, it throws our assumption of self-contented superiority, in the presence of that dismissive observation, into grave doubt. And, I might add, quite rightly. [...]

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