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Samuel Wilson and woman
No full textThis negative shows Samuel Wilson of Milton, Delaware, and an unidentified woman. They are seated together on a bench. Both wear glasses. The woman has a locket
Samuel Wilson and woman
No full textThis negative shows Samuel Wilson of Milton, Delaware, and an unidentified woman. They are seated together on a bench. Both wear glasses. The woman has a locket
Men of the day, Sir Samuel Wilson
No full textnot signed not dated."Men of the day, Sir Samuel Wilson" [2012.0043.002.000], Ward, Leslie MatthewArtist and Role: Ward, Leslie Matthew,Extent: shee
On leadership, continuity, and the common good
Full text linkThe public interest. The public good. The common good. All these terms describe ways of thinking about our collective selves and our shared interests that transcend our memberships of such groups as families, teams, and workplaces that typically inform our understanding of who we are and pattern our expectations and experience of the social world. Whereas groups such as these are ‘concrete’ in the sense that we interact with many of the members of these groups, know the group’s defining features, and can recognise exemplary members, the community of individual citizens to whom concepts like the public good apply is more abstract. Indeed, we know such communities not through direct face-to- face interaction with their members but rather indirectly, through our imaginations. It is not for nothing that Benedict Anderson (1983) described such collective, temporally continuous entities as ‘imagined communities’.
In this article, I explore the idea that certain of our current cultural ideals and practices may be inimical to our ability to imagine and experience ourselves as members of these imagined, enduring communities. In particular, I explore the idea that in our prevailing culture of flux, impermanence, and uncertainty, characterised by Bauman (2012) as ‘liquid’ modernity, we have fallen out of the habit of thinking about our ourselves as members of an imagined community of citizens with common interests who act with collective purpose in the service of these interests. Given that the type of imagined community necessary to overcome the kinds of problems that deform the public good is precisely the type of collective identity that is neither valorised nor cultivated in liquid modernity, we find ourselves less capable of acting in concert with one another to enhance the public good than we ideally should be. Notwithstanding this state of affairs, it affords us an opportunity to re-imagine the common good and to enact, entrench and expand the practice of leadership in its service
Leadership tools for wicked problems
Full text linkLeadership for the Greater Good is not easy to achieve. Many of the issues leaders face are so complex that they have been called ‘wicked problems’ – not in the sense of being evil, but because they seem almost intractable. Patience, insight and collaboration are required to resolve wicked problems and, even then, many preferred solutions often lead to unintended consequences that demand new actions that, unfortunately, too often descend in a cycle of quick-fix solutions. Policy failure and crisis management often result, as seen in wicked problem areas such as climate change, resources tax policy, refugee responses, and Indigenous health.
This Working Paper utilises Grint’s 2008 model of critical, tame and wicked problems to differentiate between the needs and uses for command, management and leadership approaches to the exercise of authority in working with them. The paper suggests that the increasing complexity of the problems leaders in all sectors of society are facing, together with the increasing volatility and uncertainty of contemporary social, business and political affairs, demand special efforts to develop and enhance leadership for wicked problems. Five tools for working with wicked problems are suggested: collaboration, character, continuity of commitment, competence and communication
Sir Samuel Wilson - Grant of Arms, University of Melbourne, 1875.
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/442035Grant of Arms made in 1875 to Samuel Wilson, University benefactor. Photograph taken in 1979.
Comments: 6th of 6 photographs sent by the Vice-Principal.201668
Item: [2017.0071.00699] "Sir Samuel Wilson - Grant of Arms, University of Melbourne, 1875.
12th annual price list & catalogue of fresh and reliable garden, field and flower seeds : grown and sold on the seed farm of Samuel Wilson
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Explainer: the greater good and why it matters more than ever
No full textSwinburne Leadership Institute's Samuel Wilson and Mark Manolopoulos explain collective wellbeing
Sir Samuel Wilson - Letters Patent, University of Melbourne, 1875.
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/442036Grant of title of Knight Bachelor, 5 Oct. 1875.
Comments: 5th of 6 photographs sent by the Vice-Principal.201667
Item: [2017.0071.00700] "Sir Samuel Wilson - Letters Patent, University of Melbourne, 1875.
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