September 2011 Eng-Zone: Engineers Australia Sydney Division's e-newsletter sent to you on the first week of every month with news and details of activities around Engineers Australia.
The Leader Is Dead. The Leader Of The Future Is Here Now! Thinkers recognise a new style of leadership now dominates our world. The old style ‘lead from the front’, heroic leader is a dying breed. In our dynamic hyperconnected society, we now have ‘distributed leadership’. This creates new openings… Recent editions of the Harvard Business Review run themes on collaboration and complexity. The future is being driven by connected individuals with passion and ideas, who collaborate.
Congratulations ! We would like to congatulate the following Engineers Australia Sydney Division members who have been appointed with Chartered (CPEng) Status in August 2011. New Chartered Members Karam Diskoros Cameron Amri Troy Michael Anforth Robert Lee Dales Christopher Joe Errington Ross Peter Golotta Merwan Khoury Casey Keven McKendry Evan Andrew Monkhouse Nicholas David Morphett David Chacko Parayarukuzhil Paul Patrick Parnell Robert Bell Seabrook Jacobus Johanne Van Rooy David William Bluck David Sedge Eric Yat-Shuen Wong Carey James McIntyre
In my own field of change management, there’s a thirst for sustainability, governance, risk management, diversity and ethics. These interconnected themes are key enablers for business success. These are also strong personal drivers across generations. Most people want to run ‘a good organisation’ and to ‘do the right thing’. At top levels, this informs boards, strategy and organisational design. At middle and lower levels, this plays out in the way people run divisions, projects and workforces. For new graduates, it impacts what young people want to do, and where they want to work. Recognising our connections around common values enables us to collaborate and to achieve success. With our rigorous technical training, engineers are uniquely positioned to lead with others on key issues of importance to our communities. Themes of infrastructure, productivity, risk management and sustainability provide clear opportunities for engineers to make an impact in important issues locally, nationally and globally. At the Centre for Engineering Leadership and Management (CELM), we are interested in the leadership of business, innovation and change. Participation in CELM is open to all members of Engineers Australia. (web link). Would you like to be involved? • Our next exciting event “Natural Disasters in NSW – Are We Prepared?” is on 14th Sept. In the first half of this year, we were glued to our screens watching disaster response unfold in Queensland, New Zealand and Japan. What can we learn from this? How can we be prepared? A strong leader is a prepared leader. In the Year of Humanitarian Engineering, we are bringing together a panel of eminent speakers at NSW Parliament House - to inform and stimulate the debate. Invite your colleagues and family. This is an important topic and open to the public. Registrations are essential & close on 7th Sept.
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