The new learning organisation?
August 21, 2008Edgar Tan writes a nice summary of a recent presentation he attended on the successful use of web2.0 tools in the organisation. He says:
They opened themselves up to question and scrutiny, but by doing so they achieved transparency, alignment, openness and trust … What kind of leaders would open themselves up to such vulnerability in order to see hierarchical structure (ie power) crumble away?
He cites Bonny Cheuk listing the qualities of what she termed Leardership 2.0:
- employee-centric
- listen and value every staff’s inputs
- ready to be surprised
- tolerate mistakes
- hear what you may not like to hear
- genuine dialogues with employees
- willingness to let go of leader’s authority
- leaders have to participate, not delegate
Fantastic! This is the kind of stuff that gets me really excited – the intersection between technology and human potential!
August 21st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
My CEO has just set up his own blog so I’m really excited to see how he uses it: http://thoughtsfromphil.blogspot.com
The only snag I can see is that people new to blogging may not understand the aim of blogging which could issues so it will be important for the Phil to explain/encourage.