The readings and videos provided valuable insights into the ongoing debate about the nature of leadership and management. The seminal work of researchers, such as Bams (1978), Grint (1995), Gill (2003), and Hales (1986, 1999) highlighted the ambiguity and fragmentation of current leadership and management theory. This lack of coherence in the field has resulted in the difficulty of building a consistent body of knowledge and of sustained, systematic accretion of knowledge. 

Listening to the Radio National Best Practice audios on 21C Management Failure, Authentic Leadership, Genuine Leadership, Good Boss Bad Boss, and Why Responsible Leadership is Good for Business, reinforced the idea that leadership and management are highly contextualized phenomena that require different skills, styles, and strategies depending on the specific situation.

The interviews with various experts and practitioners underscored the importance of understanding the complexities of the contemporary workplace, including new technologies, diverse workforces, changing values and norms, and the need for ethical, sustainable, and socially responsible practices.

The videos on the Top 10 Differences between Managers and Leaders, What is Context, Leadership as Practice, What is a Wicked Problem, and Got a Wicked Problem provided additional frameworks and concepts that helped me to understand the role of context in leadership.

The Top 10 Differences video highlighted the key distinctions between the two roles, such as focusing on systems versus people, delegating versus collaborating, and maintaining status quo versus driving change.

The videos on context and wicked problems emphasized the need to recognize the multiple perspectives, values, and interests that shape any problem, and the importance of adaptive and creative responses to complex and uncertain situations.

Watch these Videos:

Top 10 Differences between managers and leaders https://youtu.be/8ubRzzirRKs 

What is context: https://youtu.be/OztAiKJbU1A

Leadership as practice: https://youtu.be/GhBtiqFcaTQ

What is a Wicked Problem https://youtu.be/KmzcmeXTDb8

Got a Wicked Problem? https://youtu.be/vSb7cJn2A

Listen to the Radio National Best Practice audio's as below:

-21C Management Failure 

-Authentic Leadership

-Genuine Leadership

-Good boss bad boss

-Why Responsible Leadership is good for business 

Read Text:

Bams, J. D. (1978). Leadership: Concept confusion and a new paradigm. Journal of Business and Psychology, 1(4), 23–35.

Gill, R. (2003). Change management or change leadership. Journal of Change Management, 3(4), 307–318.

Grint, K. (1995). Leadership: Classical, contemporary, and critical approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hales, C. P. (1986). What do managers do? A critical review of the

evidence. Journal of Management Studies, 23(1), 88–115.

Hales, C. P. (1999). Managing through organization: The management process, forms of organization and the work of managers. London: Routledge.