Ira Chaleff's Blog, page 12
February 22, 2016
Interrupting Dangerous Leaders
It is time for people of goodwill to raise our voices in a thousand ways to interrupt the dangerous leading and following occurring between national demagogues and their supporters. My friend and colleague, Alan Briskin, raises his voice here:
There arise during times of crisis leaders who reflect and distort the fears, prejudices, and dark fantasies of a group, nation, or larger collective. These leaders can represent shadow aspects of our higher aspirations, what good intentions alone c...
February 9, 2016
Courageous Disobedience
In my workshops on Courageous Followership we do an exercise in which participants examine from where they draw courage when they need to speak up about a sensitive subject that risks them losing the support of their senior managers. Some draw on values on which they were raised, others on their professional codes of conduct and still others on examples of courageous acts by others.
We recently read about an example of a courageous principled stand that was taken when there was far more at ri...
Courageous Disobedience
In my workshops on Courageous Followership we do an exercise in which participants examine from where they draw courage when they need to speak up about a sensitive subject that risks them losing the support of their senior managers. Some draw on values on which they were raised, others on their professional codes of conduct and still others on examples of courageous acts by others.
We recently read about an example of a courageous principled stand that was taken when there was far more at...
January 20, 2016
Intelligent Disobedience – Video
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December 28, 2015
Interrupting Dangerous Leaders
It is time for people of goodwill to raise our voices in a thousand ways to interrupt the dangerous leading and following occurring between national demagogues and their supporters. My friend and colleague, Alan Briskin, raises his voice here:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-briskin/demagogues-leaders-of-col_b_8760196.html
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NASA Scientists Display Intelligent Disobedience
NASA scientists and engineers made a very tough call. They cancelled the Mars Lander mission that was scheduled for this week because of a persistent leak that would have rendered a key scientific experiment unreliable. Why do I say this was a tough call? Due to the realities of interplanetary travel the next launch window will not occur until 2017. The other reality of how much it would cost to keep the mission intact until then may mean it doesn’t occur at all. Imagine the substantial press...
NASA Scientists Display Intelligent Disobedience
NASA scientists and engineers made a very tough call. They cancelled the Mars Lander mission that was scheduled for this week because of a persistent leak that would have rendered a key scientific experiment unreliable. Why do I say this was a tough call? Due to the realities of interplanetary travel the next launch window will not occur until 2017. The other reality of how much it would cost to keep the mission intact until then may mean it doesn’t occur at all. Imagine the substantial pr...
November 5, 2015
What the 1923 Honda Point Disaster can tell us about leadership now
This is a very well written, engaging overview of Intelligent Disobedience. I thank James McCusker for the skill he brought in conveying the concept to his readers:
Few of us will have the experience of bei...
What the 1923 Honda Point Disaster can tell us about leadership now
<!--- Ira's intro >--</p> <div class="row-fluid"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span10" style="text-align: justify;"> <p>This is a very well written, engaging overview of Intelligent Disobedience. I thank James McCusker for the skill he brought in conveying the concept to his readers.//</p> <hr style="border-width: 1px; border-color: #08c;"> </div> <div class="span1"></div> </div> <p><!-- End of Ira's Intro >--</p> <p><!-- Header >--</p> <div class="row-fluid"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span2"> <img src="http://www.irachaleff.com/wp/wp-conte..." alt="James McCusker" width="200" height="200" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3796" /> </div> <div class="span8" style="text-align: justify"> <p>By James McCusker, Bothell economist, educator, consultant a columnnist for</p> <p> <a href="http://www.theheraldbusinessjournal.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.irachaleff.com/wp/wp-conte..." alt="teh herald business journal" width="700" height="56" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3800" /></a></p> <p>Published November 3, 2015</p> </p></div> <div class="span1"></div> </div> <p><!-- End of Header >--</p> <p><!-- Text 1 >--</p> <div class="row-fluid"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span5" style="text-align: justify;"> <p>[…] The incident, known as the “Honda Point Disaster,” became a staple of leadership courses and wardroom discussions. The incident was, and to a certain extent still is, used as an illustrat...</p></div></div><!-- Text 1 ><!-- End of Header ><!-- Header ><!-- End of Ira's Intro ><!--- Ira's intro >
November 4, 2015
Creating The Followers of Tomorrow
It stands to reason, though, that if leadership is important, so too is followership. You can’t have one without the other.
The New York Times
October 30, 2015
by Duff McDonald
While you’d be hard-pressed to find a graduate school that promises to churn out “tomorrow’s followers,” the movement is real and growing, spawning serious academic inquiry as well as accessible books on the subject, the latest of which is Ira Chaleff’s Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You’re...
