'Strategic' leadership
30 September 2010, by Prof Sharon Bell
When Don Watson spoke at the 2009 Senior Strategic Leadership Program in Melbourne last November his opening shot, of many, was to question why the program was titled ‘strategic’ leadership rather than more accurately ‘the senior leaders program’. In posing this question Don was sending the first volley of the day in his much publicised crusade against ‘modern managerial language, newspeak, and linguistic political chicanery’ in which the education sector is a favourite, and from Don’s website it would appear well-deserved, target.
