Monday, February 21, 2005
Draft
McCausland
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outright solutions.
It is a matter of intellect, thought, indirect leadership, advice, and
consensus building.
Second, we must also differentiate between “leadership” and “management”.
Management is about coping with complexity.
It is a response to a significant
development of the 20
th
century namely the emergence of large organizations. Good
management brings order to what would otherwise be chaos. Leadership, by contrast,
is about coping with change. As an expert in the field of human development recently
observed, “If you don’t like change, you will like irrelevancy even less.”
American business recognized this as competition in the market and volatility in
business cycles became more frequent.
Faced with rising international competition
success was no longer guaranteed by simply doing the same thing only slightly better.
Management remains important for the day-to-day success of any organization and
focuses
on
such
issues
as
planning/budgeting,
organizing/staffing,
and
controlling/problem solving.
By contrast leadership begins with setting direction,
aligning people, as well as motivating them to success.
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The successful development of
government policy for the war on terrorism is wholly dependent upon developing leaders
of substance at all levels of executive agencies. These future leaders must be able to
“think in time” and anticipate change in the international system as well as deal with
these changes.
Thomas Friedman described the importance of change in the international system
and corresponding demands in his widely acclaimed book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree.
He argues that “Globalization” has replaced the Cold War as the new defining
international system.
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And, “the globalization system, unlike the Cold War system, is not
Convention