Comments on: Obama Leads Learning Organization http://www.michaelleestallard.com/obama-leads-learning-organization Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:28:13 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael Lee Stallard http://www.michaelleestallard.com/obama-leads-learning-organization/comment-page-1#comment-135052 Michael Lee Stallard Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:40:05 +0000 http://www.michaelleestallard.com/?p=1508#comment-135052 Sharon, Thanks for your comment. Excellent idea. I'll give some thought to writing an article on it and submitting it for publication. With best regards, Michael Sharon,

Thanks for your comment. Excellent idea. I’ll give some thought to writing an article on it and submitting it for publication.

With best regards,
Michael

]]> By: Michael Lee Stallard http://www.michaelleestallard.com/obama-leads-learning-organization/comment-page-1#comment-135047 Michael Lee Stallard Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:34:17 +0000 http://www.michaelleestallard.com/?p=1508#comment-135047 Roger, Thanks for your comment, words of encouragement and for the link to your talk at Oxford. Over the weekend I enjoyed watching your presentation. After the clip finished playing, I followed a link to Vimeo and discovered videos of several other presentations you gave, including a fascinating talk and interview with Peter Drucker. I think Drucker was right to say that "what you are doing in Toronto at the Rotman School may be the most important work that is happening at any management school today. Not because of specific courses but because of the underlying mentality." The videos I watched presented some thought-provoking ideas and I'm looking forward to watching the remaining videos shortly. With best regards, Michael Roger,

Thanks for your comment, words of encouragement and for the link to your talk at Oxford. Over the weekend I enjoyed watching your presentation. After the clip finished playing, I followed a link to Vimeo and discovered videos of several other presentations you gave, including a fascinating talk and interview with Peter Drucker. I think Drucker was right to say that “what you are doing in Toronto at the Rotman School may be the most important work that is happening at any management school today. Not because of specific courses but because of the underlying mentality.” The videos I watched presented some thought-provoking ideas and I’m looking forward to watching the remaining videos shortly.

With best regards,
Michael

]]> By: Sharon VanderKaay http://www.michaelleestallard.com/obama-leads-learning-organization/comment-page-1#comment-134796 Sharon VanderKaay Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:45:16 +0000 http://www.michaelleestallard.com/?p=1508#comment-134796 Michael, Yes, I do consider Obama to be a design thinker-in-chief. He often re-frames problems, looks beyond existing options and thinks through scenarios by engaging diverse voices. You and David Brooks have highlighted an aspect of the presidency that deserves far more attention. Otherwise, the value of this way of leading will be overshadowed by demands for simple answers to complex problems that have been developing for a long time. Also, the consequences of jumping to either/or answers needs to be more widely understood. In an era of competing sound bites, maybe a marketing campaign-type approach by his supporters could specifically sell Obama's integrative thinking as way of making decisions suited to high stakes, complex times. Something a bit beyond the popular pre-election notion of "no drama Obama" is in order now. Michael,
Yes, I do consider Obama to be a design thinker-in-chief. He often re-frames problems, looks beyond existing options and thinks through scenarios by engaging diverse voices. You and David Brooks have highlighted an aspect of the presidency that deserves far more attention. Otherwise, the value of this way of leading will be overshadowed by demands for simple answers to complex problems that have been developing for a long time.

Also, the consequences of jumping to either/or answers needs to be more widely understood.

In an era of competing sound bites, maybe a marketing campaign-type approach by his supporters could specifically sell Obama’s integrative thinking as way of making decisions suited to high stakes, complex times. Something a bit beyond the popular pre-election notion of “no drama Obama” is in order now.

]]> By: Roger Martin http://www.michaelleestallard.com/obama-leads-learning-organization/comment-page-1#comment-134472 Roger Martin Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:16:24 +0000 http://www.michaelleestallard.com/?p=1508#comment-134472 Michael: Watching Obama think has been an intriguing preoccupation of mind ever since he opined in his inaugural address: “As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.” I bolted squarely upright when I heard that because it is the precise thinking move that I argue that highly successful thinkers make when faced with an unpleasant trade-off. Rather than choosing one or the other, they define their job as crafting a better alternative - all the while listening to people tell them that they have to choose one of the existing options right away. I gave a short speech on this clip at Oxford last year and it is at: http://rogerlmartin.com/library/media-clips/social-innovation Cheers and keep up the great work. Roger Michael:

Watching Obama think has been an intriguing preoccupation of mind ever since he opined in his inaugural address: “As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.”

I bolted squarely upright when I heard that because it is the precise thinking move that I argue that highly successful thinkers make when faced with an unpleasant trade-off. Rather than choosing one or the other, they define their job as crafting a better alternative – all the while listening to people tell them that they have to choose one of the existing options right away.

I gave a short speech on this clip at Oxford last year and it is at:

http://rogerlmartin.com/library/media-clips/social-innovation

Cheers and keep up the great work.

Roger

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