Paradigm Shift

Continuing from the previous post on Lincoln’s leadership qualities and skills that Alvy and Robbins highlight, these are five more qualities for effective leadership that is worth considering. Exercising Situational Competence and Responding Appropriately to Implement Effective Change The authors quote Heifetz and Linsky’s (2002) explanation of technical and adaptive challenges: The technical challenges “involve [...]

I read a fascinating book titled Learning from Lincoln: Leadership Practices for School Success by Harvey Alvy and Pam Robbins. Harvey was my former principal and an exemplary school leader that I worked with at the American Embassy School in New Delhi. Hence my motivation to read the book. The book highlights ten leadership qualities [...]

A couple of weeks back I attended the eINDIA 2010 conference in Hyderabad. It was my first tech conference in India. It was very well organized, was attended by 2000 participants from all over India and the world. The format of the conference was interesting. There were four strands focused on technology initiatives in the [...]