Individual leadership development questions

Chapter 71 - Questions for Individual Leadership Development pieviously appeared under the title Questions 1 Ask Myself in Maximum Impact s Leadership Wired, Vol. 10, No. 3, February 16,2007. The chapter is presented here with some modifications and kind permission from the publisher, and is gratefully acknowledged. 

The benefits of inclusion and frameworks for understanding and communicating inclusion, as well as individual and group level perspectives on inclusion and core competencies and skills of inclusive leaders, are addressed in detail in Parts One and Two of this volume, and I do not repeat them in this chapter. Suffice to say that inclusive leadership is good practice, and that all leaders and leadership should be inclusive. It follows then that for leadership development to be truly effective it also should be inclusive. So the first question to turn to is, what do we know and what can we suggest about how to fully take account of inclusion in leadership development systems ... 

What I don t see discussed are efforts to make available the massive amounts of money called for by individuals and corporations—with the attention being on the money itself—for developing leadership. I don t see the question asked, not of how much money should be made available but how that money should be used to develop leadership. I would like to hear more about this. 

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