Ira Chaleff's Blog, page 13
November 3, 2015
Creating The Followers of Tomorrow
<!-- Header >--</p> <div class="row-fluid"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span2" style="text-align: center;"> <p>The New York Times <span style="color: transparent;">/</span></p> <p>October 30, 2015 <span style="color: transparent;">/</span></p> <p><a href="http://duffmcdonald.com/" target="_blank">By Duff McDonald</a><span style="color: transparent;">/</span></p> </p></div> <div class="span8" style="text-align: justify;"> <blockquote><p>“It stands to reason, though, that if leadership is important, so too is followership. You can’t have one without the other. 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 Y...</p></blockquote></div></div><!-- Header ></div>
October 21, 2015
Why Leaders Should Celebrate Disobedience
When Ira Chaleff came to present his book, Intelligent Disobedience, at the BK office, we realized it was more than a book to him: it was a lifelong mission…
… WHY do people obey orders they know are morally wrong? That is the question…. Ira’s consulting practice helps leaders and followers develop healthy habits around obedience. A follower should never displace their moral accountability onto a leader…
By Charlotte Ashlock
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October 20, 2015
Why Leaders Should Celebrate Disobedience
<!--- Ira's intro >--</p> <div class="row-fluid"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span10" style="text-align: justify;"> <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="charlotte ashlock" width="200" height="200" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3741" /> </div> <div class="span8" style="text-align: justify"> <p>By <a href="https://www.bkconnection.com/users/ch..." target="_blank">Charlotte Ashlock</a>, <br />Digital Producer & Editor, <a href="https://www.bkconnection.com/" target="_blank">Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc.</a> <br />Published December 6, 2014 – <a href="https://www.bkconnection.com/blog" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b81237; font-size: 25px; text-decoration: none;">BK Community / Blog</span></a></p> <p> […] When Ira Chaleff came to present his book, <em>Intelligent Disobedience</em>, at the BK office, we realized it was more than a book to him: it was a lifelong mission… </p> </p></div> <div class="span1"></div> </div> <p><!-- End of Header >--</p> <p><!-- Texts 1 >--</p> <div class="row-fluid" style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span10"> <p>… WHY do people obey orders they know are morally wrong? That is the question. Ira’s consulting practice helps leaders and followers develop healthy habits around obedie...</p></div></div><!-- Texts 1 ><!-- End of Header ><!-- Header ><!-- End of Ira's Intro ><!--- Ira's intro >
October 19, 2015
“Intelligent Disobedience” named as the best new leadership book of 2015
The University of San Diego, School of Leadership and Education Sciences, has named Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You’re Told To Do Is Wrong, as the best new leadership book of 2015.
128 books were nominated for the honor. There were four semifinalists. Intelligent Disobedience was given the top honor based on the criteria of scholarship, innovation, ability to move beyond academic circles and, most importantly contained the potential to disrupt traditional thinking an...
October 1, 2015
The Joy of Following
<!-- Ira's intro >--</p> <div class="row-fluid" style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span10"> <p>I am delighted that the Wall Street Journal is recognizing the importance of Followership. In addition to quoting my work they quote my colleagues Robert Kelley and Marc and Samantha Hurwitz who have written important books on followership and my client Brent Uken from Ernst & Young who contributed his own chapter on followership to <em>The Art of Followership</em>, which I co-edited. My only disappointment is in the graphics their art department chose that reinforce the outdated stereotypes of...</p></div></div><!-- Ira's intro >
September 30, 2015
“Intelligent Disobedience” at Politics & Prose
<!-- Gallery politics-and-prose >--</p> <div class="span10"> <p>Pictures of Ira Chaleff’s presentation and book-signing of his last published title <em>Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You’re Told to Do is Wrong</em> at Politics and Prose bookstore, Washington DC, on last September 28, 2015</p> <a href='http://www.irachaleff.com/wp/?attachm... width="232" height="300" src="http://www.irachaleff.com/wp/wp-conte..." class="attachment-medium" alt="politics-and-prose-01" data-attachment-id="3632" data-orig-file="http://www.irachaleff.com/wp/wp-conte..." data-orig-size="386,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="politics-and-prose-01" data-image-description="<p>Ira Chaleff’s Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You’re Told to Do is Wrong presentation and book-signing at Politics and Prose bookstore, Washington DC, (September 28, 2015) [slide 01]</p> " data-medium-file="http://www.irachaleff.com/wp/wp-conte...!-- Gallery politics-and-prose ></div>
Intelligent Disobedience at Politics & Prose
<!-- Gallery politics-and-prose >--</p> <div class="span10"> <p>Pictures of Ira Chaleff’s presentation and book-signing of his last published title <em>Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You’re Told to Do is Wrong</em> at Politics and Prose bookstore, Washington DC, on last September 28, 2015</p> <a href='http://www.irachaleff.com/wp/?attachm... width="232" height="300" src="http://www.irachaleff.com/wp/wp-conte..." class="attachment-medium" alt="politics-and-prose-01" data-attachment-id="3632" data-orig-file="http://www.irachaleff.com/wp/wp-conte..." data-orig-size="386,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="politics-and-prose-01" data-image-description="<p>Ira Chaleff’s Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You’re Told to Do is Wrong presentation and book-signing at Politics and Prose bookstore, Washington DC, (September 28, 2015) [slide 01]</p> " data-medium-file="http://www.irachaleff.com/wp/wp-conte...!-- Gallery politics-and-prose ></div>
September 27, 2015
VW’s culture of blind obedience: What went wrong and how to fix it
<!-- Ira >--</p> <div class="row-fluid"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span10"> <p>Just appeared on MSNBC.com – How Intelligent Disobedience applies to the VW cheating scandal.</p> <hr style="border-width: 1px; border-color: #08c;"> </div> <div class="span1"></div> </div> <p><!-- END OF Ira >--</p> <p><!-- Header >--</p> <div class="row-fluid"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span5"> <h4>By <a href="http://irachaleff.com/wp/about-ira-ch..." target="_blank">Ira Chaleff</a> <br />Published September 26, 2015</h4> </p></div> <div class="span5"> <a href="http://msnbc.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.irachaleff.com/wp/wp-conte..." class="grouped_elements" rel="tc-fancybox-group3569" alt="msnbc-logo-card-twitter" width="828" height="150" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3616" /></a> </div> <div class="span1"></div> </div> <p><!-- END OF Header >--</p> <p><!-- Body#1 >--</p> <div class="row-fluid" style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span10"> <p>[…] The CEO of the Volkswagen holding company — now the former CEO having been appropriately forced to resign — did not install the “defeat devices” that hid the fact of emissions five- to 40-times higher than allowed by U.S. law. The “company,” a legal construct, did not install those devices. Employees, software engineers...</p></div></div><!-- Body#1 ><!-- END OF Header ><!-- Header ><!-- END OF Ira ><!-- Ira >
Blind Obedience “Emissions”
<!-- Header >--</p> <div class="row-fluid"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span3"> <img src="http://www.irachaleff.com/wp/wp-conte..." alt="vw-blind-obedience" width="210" height="210" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3601" /> </div> <div class="span7"> <p>By <a href="http://irachaleff.com/wp/about-ira-ch..." target="_blank">Ira Chaleff</a> <br />Published September 26, 2015 – <a href="http://msnbc.com/" target="_blank">MSNBC</a> //</p> <h4>VW’s culture of blind obedience: <br />What went wrong and how to fix it </h4> <hr style="border-width: 1px; border-color: #08c;"> </div> <div class="span1"></div> </div> <p><!-- END OF Header >--</p> <p><!-- Body#1 >--</p> <div class="row-fluid" style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span10"> <p>[…] The CEO of the Volkswagen holding company — now the former CEO having been appropriately forced to resign — did not install the “defeat devices” that hid the fact of emissions five- to 40-times higher than allowed by U.S. law. The “company,” a legal construct, did not install those devices. Employees, software engineers and teams of engineers fol...</p></div></div><!-- Body#1 ><!-- END OF Header ><!-- Header >
September 24, 2015
Wired to Obey or a Balance Between Obedience & Choice
<!-- Ira's intro >--</p> <div class="row-fluid" style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span10"> <p>Not sure how this came about but it’s good coverage of my new book. //</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" style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span2"> <a href="http://www.irachaleff.com/wp/wp-conte..." class="grouped_elements" rel="tc-fancybox-group3550"><img src="http://www.irachaleff.com/wp/wp-conte..." style="margin-top: 30px;" alt="wired to obey" width="250" height="250" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3566" /></a> </div> <div class="span8"> <p>By <a href="http://lauracarroll.com/" trget="_blank">Laura Carroll </a></p> <p>[…] True or false: “Two-thirds of us would obey under certain circumstances even when we thought doing so was causing harm to others.” True. According to leadership expert Ira Chaleff, well-documented evidence around for more than fifty years now supports this phenomenon. Think it would not apply to you – that you would be in the one-third who would not obey? As Chaleff will show you...</p></div></div><!-- Header ><!-- END OF Ira's intro ><!-- Ira's intro >
