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REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251015T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251018T140000 DTSTAMP:20260420T230022 CREATED:20251013T142228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251014T122930Z UID:10000463-1760518800-1760796000@publicspace.eu SUMMARY:Contributions at ILA (International Leadership Association) Global Conference 2025 in Prague DESCRIPTION:On October 15-18\, 2025 Steven P.M. de Waal PhD will be contributing at several events at the 27th ILA (International Leadership Association) Global Conference in Prague. \n\nHe will present insights from his books Make Health Care My Care! Seven Routes to a Healthy Health Care System (published in Dutch\, 2023) about innovations by civil leaders in health care and Civil Leadership as the Future of Leadership (Amazon\, 2018)\, which delves into how new ICT and media technologies have disrupted traditional power dynamics.\nHe will chair a roundtable about the question ‘Is Trust in leaders shifting from virtue to competence?’. A lively discussion exploring how public expectations of leaders may be shifting from valuing their virtues to emphasizing their competence\, and what this means for trust and leadership in the future.\nAnd as chair of the ILA member community on Trust & Leadership\, co-founded with Ted Baartmans\, he will co-host the workshop ‘How Human History Shapes Trust\, Collaboration and Influence’. This panel discussion brings together three experts from diverse fields to explore how historical trust-building\, cooperation\, and social resilience have influenced leadership-followership dynamics. What if our understanding of leadership and followership has been shaped by myths rather than historical reality? Traditional narratives emphasize hierarchy\, dominance\, and competition as the primary drivers of human survival. However\, emerging research suggests that collaboration\, trust\, and emotional intelligence have been the true catalysts of human success. Leading together means interdependence.\n\nRead more about De Waal’s overall focus for these events ‘Is Trust in leaders shifting from virtue to competence?’ or download the paper he submitted for the conference. \nDownload hier het persbericht (in Dutch) URL:https://publicspace.eu/calendar/contributions-at-ila-international-leadership-association-global-conference-2025-in-prague/ CATEGORIES:Available to participants ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://publicspace.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Afb-ILA-2025-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241111 DTSTAMP:20260420T230022 CREATED:20241027T151034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241122T132139Z UID:10000436-1730937600-1731283199@publicspace.eu SUMMARY:Contributions at ILA (International Leadership Association) Global Conference 2024 in Chicago DESCRIPTION:On November 7-10\, 2024 Steven P.M. de Waal PhD will be contributing at several events at the 26th ILA (International Leadership Association) Global Conference in Chicago (USA). \n\nHe will present insights from his book\, Civil Leadership as the Future of Leadership (Amazon\, 2018)\, which delves into how new ICT and media technologies have disrupted traditional power dynamics.\nAs chair of a roundtable on ‘Virtuous Leadership’\, De Waal will lead discussions on the dual meanings of “good leadership”.\nAnd he will oversee the foundation of a new ILA member community on Trust & Leadership\, co-founded with Ted Baartmans.\n\nFind out more about his contributions in this blog.\nDownload het persbericht (in Dutch) \n  URL:https://publicspace.eu/calendar/contributions-at-ila-international-leadership-association-global-conference-2024-in-chicago/ CATEGORIES:Available to participants ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://publicspace.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Afbeelding-bij-ILA-2024-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231012 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231016 DTSTAMP:20260420T230022 CREATED:20230928T132350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T145750Z UID:10000400-1697068800-1697414399@publicspace.eu SUMMARY:Contributions at ILA (International Leadership Association) Global Conference 2023 in Vancouver DESCRIPTION:On October 12-15 2023 Steven P.M. de Waal PhD will be discussing why ‘Good’ leaders also need ‘bad’ skills at several events at the 25th ILA (International Leadership Association) Global Conference in Vancouver (Canada). He will also chair the workshop ‘Business Leaders as a force for Good in Society’. \nFind out more about his contribution in this blog. URL:https://publicspace.eu/calendar/contributions-at-ila-international-leadership-association-global-conference-2023-in-vancouver/ CATEGORIES:Available to participants ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://publicspace.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Vancouver-skyline.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230418T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20230418T123000 DTSTAMP:20260420T230022 CREATED:20230417T091826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230425T114923Z UID:10000391-1681815600-1681821000@publicspace.eu SUMMARY:Libraries as strong institutions - Workshop at EBLIDA conference Luxembourg DESCRIPTION:‘Who is afraid of library power? Empowering citizens for a democratic and sustainable society’ is the central theme of the 31st EBLIDA Council & Conference in the National Library Luxembourg\, on 18-19 April 2023. \nAt the conference Steven de Waal will host a workshop in which participants will explore what makes libraries stronger democratic institutions. Social media have disrupted relations in the public arena; citizens have new ways to request a place at the table and to let their voice be heard. This concerns the heart of our democratic system\, its political architecture\, public leadership\, and the roles of public institutions. What can libraries learn from this\, and which role can they play? \nSteven de Waal looks back on this workshop in his blog ‘Libraries as essential democratic institutions in the new public arena’. URL:https://publicspace.eu/calendar/libraries-as-strong-institutions-workshop-at-eblida-conference-luxembourg/ CATEGORIES:Available to participants ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://publicspace.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Luxemburg.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221015 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221016 DTSTAMP:20260420T230022 CREATED:20220706T135810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230928T130436Z UID:10000379-1665792000-1665878399@publicspace.eu SUMMARY:Presentation at ILA (International Leadership Association) Global Conference 2022 in Washington DESCRIPTION:The Battle for Wisdom in Leaders\nPresentation and start of Round Table Discussion by Steven P.M. de Waal at the 24th ILA (International Leadership Association) Global Conference ‘Wisdom in times of crises’ in Washington D.C. USA. \nThis is the third year in a row that De Waal initiates a round table discussion at the annual ILA global conference. \nThe first time was in Ottawa\, Canada (2019) about his last book\, ‘Civil Leadership as the Future of Leadership. Harnessing the disruptive power of citizens’ (Amazon\, 2018). Following this book his main topic for the debate was the influence of the new media- and ICT- technologies on the public arena and so on public leadership. His main thesis for discussion there was: ‘Do you agree that at this point most leaders\, both political and private\, deny and ignore this new power of citizens and so make the same mistake as we saw in disruption of markets?’. \nThe second time was in Geneva\, Switzerland (2021)\, due to the covid19 pandemic in a hybrid fashion\, both physical and virtual. Fortunately he could have a physical round table with a lot of attendees. Here his main question was if in this new public arena rhetorics are more dominant in success of public leaders than character or values or purpose. His main – publicly known – examples for the discussion were Donald Trump\, Boris Johnson\, Greta Thunberg and Jacinda Ardern. \nIn this upcoming conference\, in Washington DC (2022)\, he initiates a discussion\, following the main theme of the conference\, in the first place about the philosophical concept of ‘wisdom in leaders’ and then about the question if (enough) followers will recognize and support some wisdom (and\, given the philosophical history\, what kind of wisdom do they prefer?) in their leaders? The philosophical questions are coming from a century old search for ‘wisdom’ and are here especially aimed at the best way to define\, research and develop wisdom in future leaders. The second element in the discussion is again connected to the new battle for public authority and leadership in the new public arena\, as analyzed in the book. Wisdom in leaders is defined and accepted by followers\, not academics\, especially so in this new public arena with much more power of citizens (in democracies that is). So the main question for the discussion will be: Will (future) followers\, who define and show their spontaneous support for and ultimately follow their leaders\, really reward wisdom in their leaders? \nPaper submitted by Steven P.M. de Waal for the upcoming edition of the ILA Gobal Conference:\nWill ‘wise persons’ be chosen\, accepted\, or recognised as our future leaders?\nThe invitation to the 2022 ILA annual conference has a short description of what is meant by wisdom in leaders. This shows ‘wisdom’ mainly as a moral approach\, as well as a well intended and values-based attitude aimed at bringing people and societies to a ‘better future.’ It even talks about system change\, creative and generative futures of ‘all systems\, all peoples and all nature.’ Probably no one will be against this hopeful vision. The main question then is whether there is enough support out there for this vision of future leaders. \nIn my view\, this short introduction puts (too much of) an emphasis on personal character and attitude as being the reasons why ‘wise’ persons should be our future leaders. This looks like the promotion of Plato of ‘philosopher kings’ [Ebenstein&Ebenstein 2000]\, which is close to benevolent dictatorship or soft despotism [De Tocqueville\, 2002]. The main question then is: Will these ‘wise persons’ be chosen\, accepted\, or recognised as our future leaders? That means that (enough) followers\, who define and recognise their leaders\, must have the same definition and appreciation of wisdom in their leaders as these members of the International Leadership Association.\nIn this question for discussion\, I make a connection with the modern public arena\, revolutionary changed due to the new information- and mediatechnologies\, and the battle for (public) leadership in that arena. That public battle shows the dominant view about what people recognise as leadership. Leadership is recognised\, criticized and even chosen (in democracies that is) in the public arena\, so the dominant vision on leadership can be observed there. We could call it a social constructivist vision on leadership. This same vision applies to the concept of ‘wisdom.’ This point of discussion\, rests on an Aristotelian view on ‘practical wisdom’ (phronesis) [Aristotle’s Nichomean Ethics\, 2011\, Den Uijl\, 2022] as a wisdom to come to choices and decisions that address all kinds of questions\, both morally and aimed at ‘a flourishing life for all’ (eudaimonia)\, but balancing this with all kinds of strategic\, financial and human elements. Ultimately these choices and decisions are in connection with ‘governance’ as description of the relevant context of most executives in public and private organisations. As a consequence\, this same vision on and definition of leadership often applies to leadership in private circles\, like corporations\, public and civil society organizations. \nThe problem to discuss arises along the following lines of reasoning: \n\nLeadership is defined (and recognised) by followers\, not by academics. The followers now have\, thanks to the technological revolution in information and media [De Waal\, 2018] the (still increasing) power of collective opinion making\, bottom-up organising and data collection\, exchange and knowledge (some speak\, very appropriately here\, of ‘the wisdom of the crowds’)[Surowiecki\, 2005]. This is influencing how they view and define leadership and also on what grounds leaders are competing for their attention and approval. The most obvious place to observe this is in the new public arena\, ranging from examples like Donald Trump to Jacinda Ardern and from Boris Johnson to Greta Thunberg. This more public battle for leadership and public authority is influencing people’s idea of what leadership is and what the best kind of leadership is for themselves and for their company or their country. This modern battle for public authority also applies to academic authority! Academia can define leadership for its own scientific purposes\, but its authority is not great enough to automatically dominate the more general and public view and definition of leadership that many people use.\nThis leads to the next question: Will ‘wisdom’ be one of the main characteristics these followers will reward in their acceptance and admiration of leaders? This has two sides. On the one hand\, do the followers see and acknowledge that they need more ‘wisdom’ in their leaders? On the other hand\, do persons in (potential) leadership positions who try to get people’s attention and approval embrace this attitude of ‘wisdom’?\nIn the end\, this leads to the question about other characteristics. Than only ‘wisdom’ people search for in their leaders. This is about the boundaries of ‘good character’ and ‘right values’ in getting acceptance as a leader from these modern followers. You need more than just good intentions and a good attitude\, you must also have skills and (other) personality traits that enable you to get the ‘right’ results. Skills and traits you need to have are ‘focus and determination on reaching results\,’ ‘knowing how to play forces of power and use your position’ and ‘having rhetorical skills to convince relevant audiences’. Don’t wise leaders need some ‘bad’ skills and attitudes\, to succeed in getting this recognition as leaders? It is what Barbara Kellerman called the question of ‘whether the end justifies the means’ [Kellerman\, 2004]. It is the centuries old discussion about the theories of Machiavelli [Antony Jay\, 1967]. Machiavelli himself was nuanced about the relation between (political) power and virtue\, like ‘prudence\,’ which comes close to ‘wisdom’ [Niccolò Machiavelli\, 1996]. We now see that kind of perception on leadership when people can choose their leaders\, although this is of course often not the case in companies. Although the new public arena certainly has increased the influence of followers on the term in office of (some) executives\, as can be seen in the impact of #MeToo cases worldwide. In the case of democracies we see that people not necessarily choose the most competent\, honest\, or ‘wise’ leader. It even seems\, as we discussed at the 2021 ILA conference in Geneva\, that the modern public arena mainly promotes the rhetorical skills in leaders over what is here called ‘wisdom’.\n\nThe purpose of initiating this discussion is:\n– to further the debate about ‘wise leadership’\n– to make it more societally and politically relevant\n– to influence leadership development programs that aim to further develop ‘wisdom in leaders.’ \n  \nReferences \n\nEbenstein & Ebenstein ‘Great Political Thinkers. Plato to the Present’\, Chapter 3\, Wadworth Boston 2000\nDe Tocqueville ‘Democracy in America’\, Chapter 6\, University of Chicago Press\, Chicago 2002\nAristotle ‘Nichomean Ethics’\, Translated by Bartlett & Collins\, University of Chicago Press\, Chicago 2011\nDen Uijl ‘Practical Wisdom in Governance’\, The Netherlands School of Public Administration\, The Hague 2022\nDe Waal ‘Civil Leadership as the Future of Leadership. Harnessing the disruptive power of citizens’\, Warden Press\, Amsterdam 2018\nSurowiecki ‘The Wisdom of Crowds’\, Random House\, New York 2005\nKellerman ‘Bad leadership: What It Is\, How It Happens\, Why It Matters’\, Harvard Business School Press\, Boston 2004\nJay ‘Management and Machiavelli’\, Business Books\, London 1967\nMachiavelli ‘Discourses on Livy’\, University of Chicago Press\, Chicago 1996 URL:https://publicspace.eu/calendar/presentation-at-ila-international-leadership-association-global-conference-2022-in-washington/ LOCATION:Grand Hyatt Hotel\, Washington\, Verenigde Staten CATEGORIES:Available to participants ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://publicspace.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/dawn-from-netherlands-cotillion-washington-dc-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20211021T122000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20211021T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T230022 CREATED:20211001T142126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211015T142153Z UID:10000354-1634818800-1634821200@publicspace.eu SUMMARY:Presentation at ILA (International Leadership Association) Global Conference 2021 in Geneva DESCRIPTION:Does the New Digital Media Landscape provoke Good or Bad Public Leadership?\nPresentation by Steven P.M. de Waal at the 23rd ILA (International Leadership Association) Annual Global Conference in Geneva. \nThe internet technologies are giving increasing power to citizens. We are now in the midst of the digital civil revolution. This new civil power requires a different style of leadership as ‘one-of-us’- citizens\, combined with rhetorical skills and aimed at the common good. That is one vision\, still a hypothesis. The other one is that this new civil power will be misused by bad leadership: threatening\, divisive\, rhetorical skills aimed at conceiling the leader’s own interest (demagogue)\, provocative for riots. \nWhat will be the outcome in this new battle for public authority? What to do about it in leadership development? \nDisruption in markets and marketstrategies has its roots in the new internet technologies. They gave us platforms\, apps\, websites and social media. This last one changed fundamentally the media landscape\, by adding a third mediachannel of\, by and to citizens themselves. It is directly aimed at them\, filled with their own productions and opinions and a powerful tool for their bottom-up organization of public protest and opinion (‘swarm behaviour’ and ‘permanent public grandstand’). It now also leads to disruption of democracy\, politics and public services\, because it gives new power of information\, data\, exchange and self organization to citizens. It’s no longer just about technology\, but about power\, institutional change and so\, also in changes in the necessary public authority and leadership. It can be analyzed as a ‘digital civil revolution’\, because it is not just a new phase in an ongoing industrial revolution\, but a totally new phase that changes not just industry or economy\, but also societies\, worldwide humanity\, institutions and politics. \n“… not just a new phase in an ongoing industrial revolution\, but a totally new phase that changes not just industry or economy\, but also societies\, worldwide humanity\, institutions and politics.” \nOf course\, because these revolutions take time to make their big effects\, we are now in the middle of experiencing and observing its nature and impact. At this moment we can only come up with hypotheses about the new kind of public leadership\, that is necessary or more fitting or gaining dominance in this fundamentally new strategic context (which of course will influence other kinds of leadership). \nCharacter and Values\nAt the ILA conference in Ottawa in 2019 I discussed if these disruptions will lead to the dominance of civil leadership. In this Round Table many agreed certainly with the strategic analysis of the ‘digital civil revolution’. At the same time there was much doubt if it was not too naive and optimistic about civil leadership as the most fitting new leadership\, missing the bad leadership that was using these same channels to convince citizens or spreading fake news or gaining followership for wrong intentions. Beneath this there was of course a discussion about the influence of the ownership by the commercial providers of the internet industry: yes\, it is a new media channel to citizens\, but they don’t have the ownership of it\, neither on the selection of what they are seeing! The participants at the Round Table thought I was right in describing that the new leadership should have an attitude and style of ‘one-of-us’- citizens\, but that certainly didn’t mean they would have the right character or the right values that fitted the interests of citizens and ‘the common good’! They then pointed to such succesful leaders as Boris Johnson in the UK and Donald Trump in USA. \nPublic Authority\nSo\, in the digital ILA conference of 2020\, which was to be held at San Francisco\, I focused my topic on this next issue: What will ultimately win public authority in this battle for new leadership: rhetorical skills or character and values? Of course I tried to settle this debate on middle ground: The right kind of leadership in character and values will win public authority\, from the moment they have better rhetorical skills. So\, the battle is not between good and bad leadership\, but about rhetorical skills! At this moment many civil leaders are missing these skills\, which is then\, of course a temporary phenomenon! And maybe\, further to be investigated\, bad character leads to faster acquiring and performing rhetorical skills? Of course\, this was not fully accepted at that time in the discussion in several rounds. The discussion mainly focused on my underlying assumption that citizens know what is in their best interest and that they want to and can look beyond rhetorics to (the right) character and values! This is fundamentally a question about the value and sustainability of (representative) democracy\, a discussion that can be expected from this ongoing disruption of democracy! \nThis question as put in the title will be the next phase in this ongoing discussion about the impact of this new revolution in mankind on public leadership\, as a third round in the ongoing yearly ILA conferences. \n \n  URL:https://publicspace.eu/calendar/presentation-at-ila-international-leadership-association-global-conference-2021-in-geneva/ LOCATION:Geneva\, Zwitserland CATEGORIES:Available to participants ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://publicspace.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ILA-2021-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201110 DTSTAMP:20260420T230022 CREATED:20201013T093437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201202T114636Z UID:10000252-1604534400-1604966399@publicspace.eu SUMMARY:Roundtable at ILA (International Leadership Association) Virtual Global Conference 2020 DESCRIPTION:Steven de Waal will host a roundtable at the ILA (International Leadership Association)\, Virtual Global Conference\, 5-9 November 2020: \nThe Battle for New Public Leadership: Rhetorical Skills Versus Character and Values?\nThe new internet technologies have disrupted markets. They now also lead to disruption of democracy and public services\, giving increasing power to citizens. Level 1 in this disruption of democracy is classical as the disruption we now know from markets: persons from outside politics now win elections\, mostly by using the platforms and new media channels better than their opponents. Level 2 of this disruption of democracy is still more specific and fundamental: the rise of private persons\, while staying outside politics and even explicitly avoiding every connection with it\, winning public leadership in addressing specific public concerns or issues\, mostly better and more explicitly than the incumbent ‘professional’ politicians.\nThis leads to two major questions about public leadership (and the vision and expectations on leadership in general)\, that Dr. Steven P.M. de Waal will address in this roundtable session:\nQuestion A. Is the new public arena only rewarding rhetorical skills and not true character and right values?\nQuestion B: Is there (internationally) proof of this second level disruption: Are there now more examples of new private persons gaining public leadership from outside politics? \nDisruption in markets and marketstrategies has its roots in the new internet technologies. They gave us platforms\, apps\, websites and social media. This same technological revolution now also leads to disruption of democracy\, politics and public services\, because it gives new powers of information\, data\, exchange and self organization to citizens. It’s no longer just about technology\, but now about power\, institutional change and changes in the necessary public authority and leadership. \nTwo levels of this disruption can be analyzed. Level 1 is classical as in the markets: persons from outside politics suddenly win elections\, using the new technologies better and more systematic\, like Beppe Grillo in Italy\, Trump in USA and Johnson in UK. Level 2 is still more fundamental\, because it changes the battle ground as such: the political arena is no longer dominant\, we now see the rise of private persons\, without participating in the political arena and not even having any political ambition\, directly winning public authority and public leadership\, like Greta Thunberg and many informal leaders organizing bottom up now all kinds of public protests\, like in Hong Kong and Beirout. \nThis leads to two major questions about leadership.\nQuestion A. Is the new public arena not only rewarding rhetorical skills to address this new permanent public grandstand and so\, are true character and the right values no longer important in winning positions of public leadership? Because this new public arena is so dominant and people now have the power of opinion\, public protest and massive organization all leadership\, not only formally public or political\, but also that of private companies and organizations\, must be willing and capable of addressing this new public arena. This will of course influence heavily the selection processses for all kinds of leaders everywhere. So this disruption of the public atmosphere can lead to a change towards a totally new kind of leadership\, and maybe not for the best.\nQuestion B: Do we see proof of this second level disruption (and maybe in terms of leadership this is more promising and hopeful than the first disruption?): Do we observe the rise in countries around the globe of these new private persons gaining public leadership? \nThe main purposes for Steven de Waal to initiate this meeting is:\n1. To discuss these findings and analyses with people from all kinds of backgrounds and countries and\n2. To investigate and collect data and examples from around the globe that might support or refute these issues. \nDownload a brief overview of his topic that Dr. De Waal’s used during the Interactive Roundtable Discussion. \nFind out more about the start of this international discussion with Dr. De Waal at ILA’s Global Conference in Ottawa in 2019. URL:https://publicspace.eu/calendar/roundtable-at-ila-international-leadership-association-virtual-global-conference-2020/ CATEGORIES:Available to participants ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://publicspace.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ILA-2020.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20191025T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20191025T174500 DTSTAMP:20260420T230023 CREATED:20190405T132204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201202T121508Z UID:10000268-1572020100-1572025500@publicspace.eu SUMMARY:Lecture at ILA (International Leadership Association) Global Conference in Canada DESCRIPTION:Steven de Waal will lecture about his latest book: ‘Civil Leadership as the Future of Leadership. Harnessing the disruptive power of citizens.’ at the ILA (International Leadership Association)\, annual global conference\, 24-27 October 2019 in Ottawa\, Canada. \nDownload an overview of the issues that were discussed at the roundtable discussion hosted by Dr. De Waal. URL:https://publicspace.eu/calendar/lecture-at-ila-international-leadership-association-global-conference-in-canada/ CATEGORIES:Available to participants ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://publicspace.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/ILA-conference-2019.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20191024T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20191024T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T230023 CREATED:20191023T105538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191023T110718Z UID:10000293-1571913000-1571918400@publicspace.eu SUMMARY:Lecture on Disruption of Democracy and of Public Services DESCRIPTION:Steven de Waal will lecture and have a dialogue with the staff of a Canadian government related thinktank about the main analyses and conclusions in his latest book: ‘Civil Leadership as the Future of Leadership. Harnessing the disruptive power of citizens’ (Amazon\, 2018). In line with the thinktank’s focus on foresights and within that on social phenomena and issues\, the main points in his presentation will be: \nDisruption is not restricted to markets\, because the underlying technological revolution also brings more data\, information and power of opinion and organization to citizens. The slogan for the book is: ‘It’s not technology\, stupid\, but mentality and power of citizens’. That is the reason why in the book the current revolution is called the third revolution in mankind: ‘the Digital Civil Revolution’. \n‘It’s not technology\, stupid\, but mentality and power of citizens’ \nIn the public domain (state\, public services and civil society)\, this leads to two main disruptions: 1. disruption of democracy and 2. disruption of public services. \nAd 1 Disruption of Democracy\n(See also De Waal’s latest blog on publicspace.eu: https://publicspace.eu/the-unfortunate-disruptions-of-democracy-and-the-fortunate-opening-of-the-public-arena/). \nThe phenomena we can observe worldwide in democracies\, all due to this revolution\, are: \n\nMassive public protest started by\, organized and maintained by individuals (like Yellow Vests in France\, Farmerprotest in Holland\, but also streetprotest in Hong Kong)\nElectoral success of runner ups from outside politics (like Beppe Grillo in Italy\, Macron in France and Trump in the USA)\nA new competition about public authority and leadership within a public arena that is broader than just the political arena and now includes private persons (citizens) and private executives (social responsibility)\n\nThe book analyzes different causes underlying these phenomena: a new medialandscape\, with a third channel on which people themselves produce information and media\, a public opinion that is now of the public itself\, a permanent public grandstand\, battle for the eyeballs\, leading to more need for actorship and rhetorical skills because all public arenas are more like theatres with an audience\, the need for more direct democracy and swarmbehaviour. \nAd 2 Disruption of Public Services\nBecause of the new data and communication power of citizens and their training in all kinds of platformbusinesses we now see: \n\nMore demand of shared decision making\, based on their own knowledge and data\nMore peerreview of providers between citizens\, like patients\, pupils etc\, even leading to peerreview on platforms by clients about providers and professionals individually\nMore citizens initiatives in care\, housing or neighbourhood management based on ‘commons’ or ‘cooperatives’\nPublicly ventured complaints with bigger influence than previous official regulations\n\nThis is now totally changing the supply side attitude of public services\, because of their reputation risk and need for direct public support. It is changing their attitude and interaction with clients and clientinitiatives. \nLooking forward to a challenging debate with professionals in the art of foresight! URL:https://publicspace.eu/calendar/disruption-of-democracy-and-of-public-services/ CATEGORIES:Available to participants ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://publicspace.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Man-met-Canadese-vlag-e1571828712574.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20190617T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20190617T123000 DTSTAMP:20260420T230023 CREATED:20190405T125522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190926T153746Z UID:10000266-1560769200-1560774600@publicspace.eu SUMMARY:Lecture at EHMA (European Health Management Association) in Finland: Disruptive Patients and New Leadership in Health Care DESCRIPTION:On 17 June 2019 Steven de Waal will lecture about his latest book: ‘Civil Leadership as the Future of Leadership. Harnessing the disruptive power of citizens.’ at the annual conference of the European Health Management Association in Espoo\, Finland. \nOf course he will start with the main strategic analysis in the book. We are currently living in the #DigitalCivilRevolution because of the ongoing introduction and implementation of all kinds of digital technologies. In his analysis this is not only causing disruption in markets\, but also\, by giving much more power to citizens\, disrupting democracy\, public services (like health care) and civil society. \nHe will further focus on the impact and disruption of health care. He sees 5 major challenges or even disruptions occurring in most Western health care systems: \n\nA new form of governance will become more dominant by giving citizens more say\, especially cooperatives and commons (in the book to be found in Ch. 11 ‘Disruption of Public Services’ and Ch. 14: ‘Commons: Future Governance Mode of the People\, by the People\, for the People’)\nAn active civil society\, like in mutual care in neighbourhoods and informal networks\nIncreasing public pressure: the permanent public grandstand as this was observed and analyzed in the book (Ch. 8: ‘The Battle between the Media for Dominance as Public Channels’) will increase all kinds of public pressure on health care institutes by publicly signaling complaints\, incidents and mistreatments. This will be publicly shared (and no longer just quietly delivered at the organization itself)\, publicly supported or recognized\, so\, the answer of the institutes must also be publicly shown and explained as well. The most impactful consequence of this new public power will be that it will be about individual professionals as well as about general institutions!\nSelf-management by patients of their own chain through the health care system. They will tell health care organizations and professionals how much their own informal network and family can and want to do\, how this will be planned and how they see their own possibilities in this ‘chain management’. Because of their training in selfchoice\, selforganization and self-planning they will no longer behave as a passive unit to be transported and planned by official health care.\nGrowing knowledge that patients have about their own diagnosis\, illness and treatments through their  search on the internet and by being part of all kinds of informal networks\, including that of patients with the same illnesses (patient platforms and patient associations).\nICT: no longer is it all about protecting the privacy of their data (by other people and institutes and government regulations)\, but about their ownership of their data: they decide with whom and why to share their medical files and data!\n\nDr. De Waal will further explain all this at the conference. He knows this will trigger much debate and discussion and is looking forward to that! \nDownload Dr. De Waal’s presentation here URL:https://publicspace.eu/calendar/lecture-at-ehma-european-health-management-association-annual-conference-in-finland/ CATEGORIES:Available to participants ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://publicspace.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Helsinki-video-poster-2560x1150_tcm8-132186.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20190415T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20190415T170000 DTSTAMP:20260420T230023 CREATED:20190405T123141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220106T121433Z UID:10000264-1555344000-1555347600@publicspace.eu SUMMARY:Dialogue at LGNZ - Local Government New Zealand DESCRIPTION:On 15 April 2019 Steven de Waal will have a dialogue about his latest book ‘Civil Leadership as the Future of Leadership’ at the LGNZ (Local Government New Zealand)\, an organisation focussed on local democracy. \nDownload Dr. de Waal’s presentation here URL:https://publicspace.eu/calendar/dialogue-at-lgnz-local-government-new-zealand/ CATEGORIES:Available to participants ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://publicspace.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/new-zealand-3719-2-1140x500.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20190410T133000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20190410T143000 DTSTAMP:20260420T230023 CREATED:20190405T113416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190405T121528Z UID:10000262-1554903000-1554906600@publicspace.eu SUMMARY:Meeting with Dutch Ambassador New Zealand DESCRIPTION:On 10 April 2019 Steven de Waal will meet the Dutch Ambassador in New Zealand Mrs. Myra Woldberg. This will be the start of a week with several lectures in Wellington about his latest book ‘Civil Leadership as the Future of Leadership’. URL:https://publicspace.eu/calendar/meeting-with-dutch-ambassador-new-zealand/ CATEGORIES:Available to participants ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://publicspace.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/new-zealand-3719-2-1140x500.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180420 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180421 DTSTAMP:20260420T230023 CREATED:20190206T091834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190206T091834Z UID:10000231-1524182400-1524268799@publicspace.eu SUMMARY:Lecture ‘Disruption of Healthcare: Power of patients and impact on leadership‘ DESCRIPTION:On April 20\, 2018 Steven de Waal was one of the keynote speakers at the Labor Berlin “hauptstadtsymposium 2018 – Gesundheit von morgen: intelligent\, global\, leistungsorientiert” in Berlin. \nNew technologies lead towards a revolution\nThe title of his lecture was: ‘Disruption of Healthcare: Power of patients and impact on leadership‘ (download his presentation here). He has been talking about how the same technological revolution that caused disruption in the markets will affect the power and mentality of citizens\, also in their role as patients. They now have a direct channel for data\, information\, organization and communication. That will influence their mentality and give them tools to influence and even initiate public debate\, about healthcare in general and also about specific providers and insurers\, when they feel an urge or necessity to do that. \nThese new technologies already influence their attitude towards politics and representative democracy\, but will also further change their attitude towards healthcare. His main focus is on the social\, political and civil revolution going on because of the new technologies that create a new direct information and communication channel between citizens worldwide. \n“Growing wish of patients to manage their own health process” \nSteven de Waal also analysed the impact of this modern power of patients on civil leadership in healthcare\, the topic of his dissertation: ‘The value(s) of Civil Leaders’ (Eleven 2014).\nAs he is used to in his many international lectures on these topics and strategic developments it will probably provoke many questions. This is his main reason to prefer lecturing for an audience of strategically responsible executives. Some of the questions he raised: \n\nDo they recognize the growing power of patients\, especially in their interaction with doctors and other professionals in healthcare?\nHave they already experienced the growing wish of patients to manage their own health process\, including monitoring at a distance\, planning their stay at home\, planning their ambulant care visits?\nWhat type of fundamental change process in culture and behaviour in their healthcare organizations are they initiating and what kind of leadership do they think is necessary? Is it already there? URL:https://publicspace.eu/calendar/lecture-disruption-of-healthcare-power-of-patients-and-impact-on-leadership/ CATEGORIES:Available to participants ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://publicspace.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screenshot-2018-2-22-Labor-Berlin-hauptstadtsymposium.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR