From Executive to Leader: A Learning Process

Leadership can be learned, say Pablo Cardona and Helen Wilkinson in their book, Creciendo como líder (Growing as a Leader), which, as the title implies, believes that leadership is a necessary process of change that starts from within. The authors review 10 key competencies of being a good leader, which they say can be developed through further education, training and coaching.

Tell Me Who You Are and I’ll Tell You How to Work

In today’s society, no organization, whether corporate, political, educational, sports or family related, can survive without teamwork. Is there any doubt about whether teamwork allows people to take on more and more complex tasks in a changing environment and get better results than an individual could when working alone? Tasks are interrelated and we need one another. However, we have all experienced situations where working … [ Read more ]

Transcendental leadership

This paper takes the perspective of relational leadership. In this view, leadership is defined as an influence relationship, in which the leader and the collaborator mutually (although not symmetrically) influence each other in a dynamic way, forming partnerships with greater or lesser added value. Looking at these partnerships, three types of leadership can be distinguished: transactional, transformational and transcendental. Although partnerships are defined by the … [ Read more ]