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Handy, quick reference guides to tools, methods, and approaches that propel development forward and enhance its effects.

 

October 2009
Drawing Learning Charters
Despite competing demands, modern organizations should not forget that learning is the best way to meet the challenges of the time. Learning charters demonstrate commitment: they are a touchstone against which provision and practice can be tested and a waymark with which to guide, monitor, and evaluate progress. It is difficult to argue that what learning charters advocate is not worth striving for. (No. 65 | October 2009)

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Distributing Leadership
The prevailing view of leadership is that it is concentrated or focused. In organizations, this makes it an input to business processes and performance--dependent on the attributes, behaviors, experience, knowledge, skills, and potential of the individuals chosen to impact these. The theory of distributed leadership thinks it best considered as an outcome. Leadership is defined by what one does, not who one is. Leadership at all levels matters and must be drawn from, not just be added to, individuals and groups in organizations. (No. 64 | October 2009)

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