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  • 1. Leadership, management and other sorry excuses for treating people like crap*
    *And a few of the nicer alternatives
    Liam Barrington-Bush, Concrete Solutions C.I.C.
    @ Birkbeck College
    25 November 2010

2. What does leadership mean to you?
3. Leadership?
Can it be learned?
In a classroom?
Is it inherent to some?
Is a skill?
Is a quality?
Is it an ethos?
4. Leadership
...as our grandparents imagined it...
The Great Man Theories
Trait theories
Behaviourist theories
Situational leadership
5. How does leadership relate to management?
6. Much of what we call management is still about practical application of the old leadership ideas, in organisations.
i.e.

  • Elitist

7. Controlling 8. Specialised 9. Impersonal