Developing leaders by supporting their transitions into senior positions

Developing leaders? Developing countries?

A visit to Ghana, with the hosts interested in developing leaders and the guest interested in developing countries, led to a questioning of both. Three approaches to development are discussed. The top-down government planning approach, discredited with the fall of communism, has been replaced by an outside-in ‘globalisation’ approach, which is now promoted as the way to develop an economy. But ...

Developing Argumentation Positions

In this paper we first give three desiderata for tools intended to support the construction of arguments in a domain involving practical reasoning. We then review the computational properties of frameworks supporting these requirements, and conclude that these properties may present problems for some current approaches. We then offer an alternative approach satisfying the three requirements, an...

Turning doctors into leaders.

Developing Library Leaders in Ghana

This study explores various leadership approaches in the context of Ghanaian university libraries. Twenty-six senior librarians and faculty from the University of Ghana were interviewed to determine their views on leadership styles, skills, training and barriers to developing library leaders. Findings revealed that leaders can be developed through short courses, workshops, seminars and formal t...

Help wanted: developing clinician leaders

Because healthcare faces challenges, such as ensuring quality and access and controlling cost, effective leadership is needed at every level of healthcare organizations. Yet, physicians are trained in clinical and scientific skills but not in leadership competencies. Furthermore, clinicians often feel ill-prepared to assume managerial and leadership roles. To close this gap, training in leaders...