It has been sometime since this blog has updated (this is an old draft from 2010).
We put together a leadership course, a five day event for early january (2010) and there was insufficient interest to make a real go of it. However it was the weather that really stopped things in the tracks.
We put together a leadership course, a five day event for early january (2010) and there was insufficient interest to make a real go of it. However it was the weather that really stopped things in the tracks.
On talking things through with my tutor we decided to go for a reduced level of education time and set up a couple of workshops to do some work on leadership, as a part of the course to evaluate leadership education. The nub of the leadership education is there is a limited uptake in agriculture in Britain with plenty of activity on offer. The best leadership education for farmer/agricultural managers is to go on a course that is aimed at Leadership with a diverse intake from other sectors as opposed to the more incestuous farmer only leadership, because farming is not as different as farmers like to think it is.
The problem is management is a young discipline and has been through various stages of fashionable developemnt. Agriculture has only recently industrialised and so is only now receptive to concepts of business and decision making analysis. Added into this framework is the rise of systems approach. The synergy between systems, agriculture and management is more harmonious that the previous concentration on reductionism, and a business ethos driven by the dismal science that suggests that 'all other things being equal' we can address these two parts of the decision. However complexity has driven that solution procedure out the door.
The weather however is different now with water, water every where (nor a drop to drink?).
Been looking for a link to history/development of management came across this http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/01/the_next_big_thing_in_managing.htmlon management innovations overtime
The problem is management is a young discipline and has been through various stages of fashionable developemnt. Agriculture has only recently industrialised and so is only now receptive to concepts of business and decision making analysis. Added into this framework is the rise of systems approach. The synergy between systems, agriculture and management is more harmonious that the previous concentration on reductionism, and a business ethos driven by the dismal science that suggests that 'all other things being equal' we can address these two parts of the decision. However complexity has driven that solution procedure out the door.
The weather however is different now with water, water every where (nor a drop to drink?).
Been looking for a link to history/development of management came across this http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/01/the_next_big_thing_in_managing.htmlon management innovations overtime
