‘Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things’
Peter Drucker, former Austrian-American Management Consultant
This is our last ‘Thought for the Week’ in 2024 — we've provided 51 commentaries over the past year: 14 on politics, 11 on capitalism, 13 focused on the needs of young people, and 13 others — including seven on a spiritual theme.
One of this last group was ‘The Woes of the Church of England’, published on 25th November; those woes have risen still further over the past fortnight with pressure on the Archbishop of York and the voluntary ‘de-frocking’ of former Archbishop Carey. Its leadership should be based on strategy and not simply reaction, but the Church has demonstrated that its capacity to change is very limited, and that it is prompted primarily by circumstances.
Politicians generally do exactly the same thing: the recent and wholly understandable fury of the ‘WASPI’ women, who were promised one thing before the election, only to be refused now, is a typical example. On 23rd September our environmental ‘Thought for the Week’ was entitled, ‘How shifting priorities risk our future’ and it spelt out the real dangers that result from reacting to circumstances.
Regulators are much the same — in a recent conversation focused on resolving a new approach to enable international regulation and administration for ‘Stock for Data’, I was informed that regulators only prioritise issues like this when the circumstances demand it.
This week's commentary is short, being in the run-up to Christmas; but we're taking the opportunity to ask you for a few examples where leadership has changed the world for the better. We’ll also provide a reference to Richard Higginson's book, ‘Transforming Leadership’, for new year’s reading.
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We've published 380 of these weekly commentaries covering a wide range of issues, and you can find links here to the full list over the past seven years.
