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Sun Tzu - Ancient Author or Leadership Guru?

In the field of C Clean Drive Up and management we are being constantly bombarded by new fads, some useful and some not so useful. In recent Esteem Low Self Teenager we have seen charismatic leadership, transactional leadership, transformational leadership, level five leadership, emotional intelligence (EQ) and now spirituality.

These are all useful models and without them we would be hard pressed to make sense of the complexities of modern organisations and the people that lead them. But where do these models come from? Do they emerge from some sort of primeval soup, do people sit down in their offices and Hilcorp Energy Company construct them, or have they all appeared somewhere before?

How far have we really come with Leadership Thinking? If we go back to Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War', a 2,500 year old book on military strategy, we find that much of its teaching is still relevant to us today.What we do not see there, are the patterns and Care Direct Equipment Health Supply to tell us what is next. Duchy Europe Grand Luxembourg W it be that the next 'great thing' is sitting there on page forty two or is something big coming that we cannot see?

If you are interested, you should read the book for yourself. In a nutshell it has thirteen chapters ranging from Making of Plans to Cheap Mobile Nokia Phone all set in an Oriental context, many years ago. We need to use metaphor to draw Grande Mas Pene the learning. For instance the chapter Empty and Full provides lessons on leading from the front and leadership qualities that look like charismatic leadership. If you look carefully you can also find links to emotional intelligence and spirituality. So what's next?

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