| Adair
Leadership Principles
Although John is best known for his simple Three Circles
Model, his work taken as a whole offers you a comprehensive,
coherent and essentially practical philosophy of leadership
and leadership development. It enables leaders to both become
their best and to give their best to the growing world.
Generic Role
That philosophy revolves around the concept that there is
such a thing as a generic role of leader. The role
and responsibilities of a leader, in other words, are
universal in: all working contexts, all fields of enterprise,
and all levels of leadership. The Three Circle Model symbolises
it. What changes with level is the degree and extent of
complexity, but not the underlying nature and role of leadership. |
Levels
of Leadership
John's distinction between three broad levels of leadership
- team, operational and strategic - has been adopted throughout
the world. He was the first person in the world to call for
excellence at all three levels, and the for good teamwork
between them.
Leadership and Management
John Adair's
concept of leadership also has the merit of relegating the
old Leadership v Management debate to the scrapheap. For
the theory which he is renowned fully integrates Leadership
and Management into one harmonious unity.
For more information
on Adair Leadership read: Effective Leadership
(2nd edition), Not
Bosses But Leaders (3rd edition) and How To Grow Leaders.
For an appraisal of John's work,
see John Adair: Fundamentals of
Leadership, edited by Jonathan Gosling and others (Palgrave,
2007).
More information on John Adair's background, present activities
and books can be found at www.johnadair.co.uk
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