Unlearning and Leadership

Unlearning and Leadership

Unlearning is more important than learning for modern leaders. Leaders can have no appreciation of understanding the situations of the 21st century without full control on unlearning. Unlearning has to be made integral part of decision making for leaders.
Most people have grown in the last few decades through suitable education, good opportunities, hard work and acquiring wisdom. The decisions have to be made from mind and logic rather than heart. And that is the core of the information age.
In spite of learning, changing places, new professions, astronomical growth, etc individuals will be able to manage their present, and plan their future, through systematic unlearning only.

		Terry, South Africa
	Unlearning Good idea unlearning. Ever heard of the saying: "Old ideas only die when the people who hold them die"? Unlearning should be replaced with shuffling - move leaders to new areas regularly - maybe their old ideas will die when they move, having no currency in the new environment.

		Arun, India
	Vision and strategy planning A CEO selection is also based on the past performance, and what he got and can get to the table a major criteria, his/her past baggage of ideas and practices get carried as a baggage from a different ...

		robin umiom Entrepreneur, Nigeria
	Leadership and Unlearning Unlearning may promote individual growth but may not promote leadership style in management. Old habits die hard. Unlearning by learning may be what is required if leadership skills for 21st century l...

		KK Verma Director, India
	The Leadership Skill of Being Able to to Unlearn Thanks Robin for your insight. Leadership skills have been taught and learnt by leaders for long time. However it is my belief that having knowledge of unlearning will enforce a significant improvemen...

		Bill Boynton Teacher, United States
	Unlearning is Seeing Change as an Opportunity I think unlearning is in direct proportion with the ability to change. The ability to learn is the ability to look at change as an opportunity. Change is a constant, and the speed with which it come...

		KK Verma Director, India
	Unlearning is Innovation @Bill Boynton: what a calculated and just use of words and sentences. They are so apt. I fully agree when you say that speed of change is a huge challenge. We have to deal with this phenomenon and for...

		KK Verma Director, India
	Unlearning is not Learning @Bill Boynton: What I make out from your comment that learning is a change and so unlearning also could be a change. I feel that indeed both learning and unlearning are change, but learning is not u...

		Gregory Johnson Coach, United States
	Unlearning is Needed for New Leaders Recent experience has shown that some unlearning is necessary, certainly with the "new" breed of leaders coming directly out of college or high level management training programs. They espouse very cl...

		Jang il su, Korea (South)
	Unlearning is Essential Thanks for your view. I think, we get good things when we learn, and at the same time, we might lose the way how to look for new things. People are good at seeing they already know, but there's no wa...

		KK Verma Director, India
	I Agree - Unlearning is Essential @Jang il su: I agree - unlearning is essential. I keep writing about it. I invite all those who are interested to work on new ideas to come forward and debate about this. Unlearning is easier, econo...

		Konstantinos Zacharis, Greece
	Unlearning and Leadership We have to define "unlearning" in order to be useful. If it refers to rapid change or elaborate selection skills, then we can say something about it. To my opinion it is an inappropriate term (it rath...

		KK Verma Director, India
	Unlearning is a Process @Konstantinos Zacharis: Unlearning is the whole process of learning. Like we thought of learning alphabets, we start writing and reading a, b, c, d... We learn in one year time. Similarly if we deci...

		Andrew Blaine Business Consultant, South Africa
	Unlearning and Evolution Unlearning is potentially dangerous. The fact that "Those who forget history are destined to relive it" should remain at the forefront of every leaders mind. We only have to look to Africa to find the...

		Bill Boynton Teacher, United States
	Change -- the Direction and Process for Unlearning I believe that "Unlearning" is in direct proportion to accepting the concepts and the ability for change. To be able to leave what we have been comfortable with, to break away from long standing habi...

		KK Verma Director, India
	Unlearning System WE need a system to unlearn. In my three books on unlearning, I have discussed in details about this system of unlearning. Unfortunately because of lack of funds, a distributor and good publishers, th...

		Andrew Blaine Business Consultant, South Africa
	Unlearning and Evolution 'Unlearning' implies the Trotskyite philosophy - "progress results from revolution rather than evolution; to progress it is first necessary to eradicate history"!? Too much of life indicates that grow...