Leadership is not always thought of as a complex hierarchy and
yet, more than likely, the mechanics of leadership are in fact
arranged in a hierarchically complex manner.
For example:
If I’m going to lead effectively, then I have a number of
personal actions that are likely to be important, such as
understanding myself and others, communicating with clarity,
managing myself and others, as well as the results, work, and
strategies — as a leader — I select and employ.
Which of those is more complex than the other would relate to
the lesser complex actions being organized, integrated, and
used in a more complex coordination.
It may be extremely important to organize leadership activity
hierarchically to understand that more complex leadership will
require more hierarchically complex task performance.
The idea that we can learn anything may hold up somewhat.
However, what is more likely to be true is that we can’t
coordinate everything we learn in a way that allows for the
emergence of complex activity designed to deal with complex
circumstances.
See Generati for an
example where the meta-competency is the emergence of an order
of complexity designed to coordinate and organize lower order
actions into more complex task performance. |
