It has been sometime and still the only person interested is nil

The point of this blog is to capture some data in respect of sustainability. This area of activity is fraught with complexity of language and political hijack.

In regard to communication and understanding a most useful tool is the n gramm tool developed by google. http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=chemical%2C+agriculture%2C+&year_start=1700&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

What can we say

The role of a log is for personal use. The thing we have now is too much information and too little knowledge

To day I went on to google and looked for some old papers, and they are there, which is wonderful. These old papers are often viewed as old and out of date but they are not so. There is much to commend there renewal.

linkedin

It would seem that through the web and grafting we can connect, but when at my appraisel my manager said: How can we make money out of this network of yours?

I don't know.

How

Is a blog a dairy?
I don't like the work blog.

But I do like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKIqGhqMv60&feature=related

Why have only 166,000 viewed this but 212,000,000 want Gaga?

my linkedin profile is http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/neil-ridley/11/a01/287

Leadership up date

We have decided to undertake some sessions that are brief and punchy to meet with farmers availabity to undertake leadership development

leadership course

Have approval from grant funder to run course.

Seeking out folk to come on course, trawling the e mail and snail mail addresses to get hits, but it is not rich mining at present.

There seems to be resistance to the course offering. Is this a good course?

what has been established

We have had a meeting at Harper Adams and have developed the ideas from the research to formulate a course.

• Leadership is to be looking at leadership of or within the industry
• couirse will be punchy and practical
• Leadership needs to include other sectors tan farmers alone
• key words in leadership
• Put something in place that enables a type of progression, there are many courses and to often they are from nothing to 2 or 3 week residential courses

Grist defines leadership

The division between management and leadership is rooted in the distinction between known and unknown, belies the complexity of the relationship between problem and response.

Key words

1. Values (is about Integrity, moral Authority)
2. Influence
3. Information (about communication, understanding, use of media)
4. Change (about situation)
5. Vision
6. Flexibility
7. Effectivenes (about networking)

leadership education and leadership traits

A read through of the replies to e mail survey shows that the farm community is derivative of an authoritarian type of leadership probably not receptive tp the new ways of working. Farming is often small in business terms for leadership education activity.

Problems in the ruarl community and problems in farming are often described as intractable and condensed around communication problems. The development of leadership skills with new technologies would help, but HOW?