This post shall be the first of a series on leadership, using ideas drawn from David Castro's book, Genership 1.0 . I'm reading it and deciding how to integrate Castro's thoughts on leadership into my thinking about creativity and problem solving in the nonprofit world. A 2011 report from the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance listed several competencies that survey respondents said nonprofit leaders would need to pay more attention to in the future: Building and leading teams Developing others Interpersonal skills Working as an effective team member In 2014, a new leadership competency might need to be cultivated as those challenges haven't completely gone away (and more on that in coming posts). The point is this: Castro talks about the need for a new form of leadership that fosters collective action rather than being about “leading” people to do something. Castro describes at length what genership is and how to do it. But he starts off by talking about le...
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