Leadosophy

Episode 66 Leadosophy deeply believes that the tools of philosophical thought can help us deepen our meaning of life. It is Leadosophy's fundamental assumption that to truly understand anything, life or leadership or whatever, one must spend some time in contemplation, spend some time in self-reflection.

In this episode, we discuss the relationship between our philosophy of life and our philosophy of leadership. How closely do they hang together? And, we'll discuss how a Pearl Jam song helped inspire this episode.

References

https://www.newspapers.com/image/389640995/?terms=Jeremy%20wade%20delle&match=1

https://iai.tv/video/how-to-be-a-stoic-massimo-pigliucci

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(song)

Season One: Foundations of Leadosophy Leadosophy is the fusion of leadership and philosophy. We use philosophical thought to deepen our understanding of leadership together.

Episode 65 So is leadership wholly a relative concept, and if so, how can you teach it? How does one judge leadership experience if we can’t pin down a concept of leadership? Is there no objectivity, no universal statements or generalities that we can make about leadership or about leaders? We'll examine these questions and more.

Get ready to nerd out on some Philosophy!

References

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relativism/

Season One: Foundations of Leadosophy Leadosophy is the fusion of leadership and philosophy. We use philosophical thought to deepen our understanding of leadership together.

Episode 64 Leadosophy reflects on the nature of Philosophy and examines whether or not Philosophy really has anything to offer leadership, our concepts of leadership, and leading others. Is Philosophy just some archaic subject that has been stored in the corner of dingy academic institutions? Why does it seem that Philosophy is undervalued or has no real place in mainstream society? Or, is this not the case.

Leadosophy makes the case that philosophy and leadership can coexist in this episode and lays out some reasons why.

References

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/11/when-philosophy-lost-its-way/

Season One: Foundations of Leadosophy Leadosophy is the fusion of leadership and philosophy. We use philosophical thought to deepen our understanding of leadership together.

Episode 63 Leadosophy asks two fundamental questions pertaining to your leadership self-concept. How would you answer them?

This episode should leave you in deep thought.

Season One: Foundations of Leadosophy Leadosophy is the fusion of leadership and philosophy. We use philosophical thought to deepen our understanding of leadership together.

Episode 62 Leadoosphy posits five reflective questions that we can use to make today more enriching for ourselves and others:

1. Are you more knowledgeable today than you were yesterday, and why or why not?

2. What will you do today to increase your circle of competence? This could be leadership competence or technical competence or relationship competence.

3. Can you play a role, today, in increasing or broadening someone else’s circle of competence?

4. Can you think of one specific and tangible barrier that, if removed, may increase the productivity of others within your sphere of influence?

5. Can I monitor my conversations today for assumptions that might be faulty or taken on face value, and can we collectively pick out and examine an assumption to test its validity?

Episode 61 If you ask someone to explain why they are drawn to a certain leader, more often than not, they will describe some sort of traits that that leader had or displayed. Even if they explain what that person did for them, you could possibly distill their actions down into some sort of traits that they had that preempted that leader to act a certain way.

Leadosophy launched a survey asking respondents to rank order a list of 10 leadership traits from most desirable to least desirable. Leadosophy analyzes some of the data, but Leadosophy took away more questions than answers. We talk about this and more on this episode.

Season One: Foundations of Leadosophy Leadosophy is the fusion of leadership and philosophy. We use philosophical thought to deepen our understanding of leadership together.

Episode 60 Leadosophy believes that no leadership theory is complete without talking about the traits and characteristics of a leader. Trait theory is still a dominant theory of leadership, and I do not see this changing.

In this episode, Leadosophy continues the analysis of the infographic presented last week: people were presented with and ask to choose between three different anonymous bosses with differing leadership trait strengths and weaknesses. This episode analyzes the comments received through social media and email on that thought experiment.

Season One: Foundations of Leadosophy Leadosophy is the fusion of leadership and philosophy. We use philosophical thought to deepen our understanding of leadership together.

Episode 59 The C-Suite folks at Company X have graciously asked for your input as to who should be appointed as your new boss. Silently, you believe that you're the obvious choice, but you must temporarily table that thought.

The C-Suite folks present you with a spider graph of three anonymous individuals (Orange, Green, and Blue are their only identifiers) from outside of the company. Graphed together are the characteristics/trait ratings of each person rated on a scale from 1 (lowest rated) to 10 (highest rated).

Which boss would you like to work for, and most importantly, can you give a reasoned explanation as to why you chose Orange, Green, or Blue? Maybe your profession requires a leader with a certain set of traits and skills? Maybe you value empathy and likability, but why?

Season One: Foundations of Leadosophy Leadosophy is the fusion of leadership and philosophy. We use philosophical thought to deepen our understanding of leadership together.

Episode 58 Leadosophy unveils the 10-Question Leadership Challenge. Find more info below, or listen to the podcast to hear about what's involved. I think you'll find the challenge intellectually rewarding.

Find the challenge here: https://www.leadosophy.com/my-thoughts/2021/4/14/10-day-leadership-challenge

Season One: Foundations of Leadosophy Leadosophy is the fusion of leadership and philosophy. We use philosophical thought to deepen our understanding of leadership together.

Episode 57 Leadosophy explores the concepts of Servant Leadership and a servant to the need for power. Can a leader value both concepts simultaneously, or are they fundamental contradictions? Our actions flow or seemingly flow from our values. Leadosophy believes an I-work-for-them mental state promotes a more collaborative environment, and those leaders who lead with a power-first mindset are often in the business of obtaining power, keeping power, or losing power: followers take a backseat, i.e., they work for you. We explore this and more in this episode. Hope you find this conversation interesting.

References

https://www.greenleaf.org/what-is-servant-leadership/

Season One: Foundations of Leadosophy Leadosophy is the fusion of leadership and philosophy. We use philosophical thought to deepen our understanding of leadership together.