Careers: How to Be a Leader in Your Field: A Guide for Students in Professional Schools
Title: How to Be a Leader in Your Field: A Guide for Students in Professional Schools
Subject: Personal Improvement
Source: UCLA / Philip E. Agre
Every profession has leaders. In a formal sense, the elected officers of a professional society are the leaders of that profession. Because a profession is fundamentally about knowledge, however, the true leaders of a profession are the thought leaders: the individuals who synthesize the thinking of the profession's members and articulate directions for the future. Sometimes a profession will elect its thought leaders to official positions. But often the thought leaders prefer to lead through writing and speaking, cutting-edge projects, conference organizing, and dialogue. Leadership means both talking and listening, both vision and consensus. A leader builds a web of relationships within the profession and articulates the themes that are emerging in the thinking of the profession as a whole.
In a knowledge-intensive world of ceaseless innovation and change, I assert, every professional must be a leader.
posted by Victor Lloyd Smith @ 11:42 PM
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