Accelerating the development of leaders
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Is an important issue the idea of accelerating the development of leaders and require the development of specific leaders. It also raises the question of why it was so difficult to learn the process of implementation if the requirements are so large and accelerate the need so urgent.
I suggest that the rate of development of leadership skills is largely a function of corporate culture in which the leader operates. While there are other factors involved, are including the availability of tools for leadership development, recent research would support that culture is a big factor.
1. The collective habits and established, One of the inhibitors to accelerate learning on the part of leaders, the general attitude and measures of support (or not) within the organization. This is partly the problem of diversity of opinions and dialogue. On the one hand, if it is an attitude in the organization of learning, it is a much closed culture. On the other hand, if this attitude and standard of the value of leadership learning and refers only to the value of the focus can guide action for leaders to address the performance gaps and identify difficult.
2. The written and unwritten rules that influence the behavior. It is less the written rules of the organization that affect the behavior than the unwritten. The question of "how we do things around here" in the very center of the "successful" leader (defined by the organization.)
3. Risk tolerance and innovation. At the beginning of the development of a leadership process in a new role, innovation is not only easier; it is probably desirable by the leader. Unfortunately, in many corporate cultures, tolerance for risk so low that the real lesson to be learned from the ladder not rock the boat. This is not only for the development of leaders, but the development of the organization as well. If there is a culture of humiliation of failed ideas and innovations, it is unlikely that the new leader will soon become the most powerful person he or she has the potential.
Accelerated Learning Historical Brief
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Many universities and colleges offer educational programs to teach effective. Based on the results, one wonders whether these courses to work well. Wasted resources and wasted time. What a shame, people complain, but the situation can be improved? Let me tell you a story about how effective learning can take shows at minimal cost. Moses Maimonides was born in 1135 CE in Cordoba in southern Spain. His father was a rabbi at home and had a couple dozen books on Jewish law, medicine, and Greek philosophy.
It astonishes that absorbed with very limited resources, Maimonides knowledge like a sponge. His brother David started a jewelry business and Maimonides also participated in it, at the same time, he devoted much of his time to writing a general commentary on Jewish law. His writings were the books he had read about, he has his own ideas are based.
Maimonides' brother, David, died in a shipwreck, who with his family destiny. Stranded in Egypt, no money chose Maimonides for trying to make a living as a doctor with the medical knowledge he had acquired in Spain.
As of 1165 CE, during his thirties and forties Maimonides practiced medicine in Alexandria, the most important port in northern Egypt. His success was so astonishing that, although Maimonides was a Jew, Saladin appointed him to the court doctor. This has led to regular tasks, and every morning Maimonides went to the royal palace to give medical consultations with the royal family and court officials.
By the time he was 50 years old, Maimonides was his second major work, the "Guide for the Perplexed," an extraordinary intellectual effort to reconcile religion with Aristotelian logic completed. As Moses Maimonides manage to accumulate such a vast knowledge in different areas?
1. Enormous curiosity about what he considered interesting learning.
2. Reading these books often from year to year.
3. Take every opportunity to learn from experts and ask questions, driven by his curiosity.
4. Learning from mistakes and corrections as he went.
Modern schools and universities should be secured by the students including the rule of law and medicine, strict requirements on what issues.
For those who have the knowledge to pass formal tests have been problems before. The ultimate proof of the tutorial was itself provided by Maimonides. The boy read the same books at home that Maimonides had read and all of a child; he began supporting his father in his medical consultations.
As Maimonides died in 1204, he was 69 years old. Apparently the system worked its wonders of learning again, but the story does not end here.
In the following decades, Maimonides' grandson and son in the same profession also learned at a young age and later practiced medicine very successfully. During the 13th and 14 Century they were among the most prominent doctors in Egypt.
