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Many executives and HR leaders develop competency models with little to no research on whether they have any connection to outcomes. For example, charisma, time management entrepreneurial spirit, managerial courage, and executive presence are examples of competencies that don’t predict or correlate to levels of employee engagement, profitability, sales, safety, turnover, customer satisfaction, or quality. This white paper summarizes Zenger Folkman’s extensive experience with using … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Joe Folkman | Source: The CLEMMER Group | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Every senior officer I know is faking it about 30% of the time. A significant chunk of the time they’re going to look it up later, and they don’t want to appear ignorant. There is a time you can ask stupid questions, but that’s after you’ve established an aura of intelligence.

Content: Quotation | Author: Stanley Bing | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Leadership

If there’s any leadership task that is harder than listening with an open mind even when you have a strong view, I haven’t encountered it. And surely, none is more important.

Content: Quotation | Author: Douglas Stone | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Communication, Leadership

In a paper written almost two decades ago, Miles Bryant, a professor of education administration at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, compared Western leadership beliefs to those of Native Americans from six Plains tribes. Bryant and a group of graduate students sought to learn how culture figures in conceptions of leadership. The variances can be a catalyst for thinking more deeply about what makes an effective … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Eric McNulty | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Leadership

Matthew Ridgway, U.S. army general in the Korean War, says, “The hard decisions are not the ones you make in the heat of battle.” A lot of people can do that. The hard part is actually sitting in a meeting and speaking your mind about a bad idea that’s going to put thousands of lives in jeopardy — and convincing the decision makers that it’s … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Hayagreeva Rao | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Decision Making, Leadership

Question the conventional rules about taking command of a business. Some of them are seriously misguided and need replacing by up-to-date guidelines. New CEOs like to make an early impact, often by very bold actions, but for a long-lasting impact, what’s needed is a more flexible and considered approach.

Content: Article | Authors: Peter Tollman, Roselinde Torres | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Without anyone having noticed, the field of leadership apparently has become the home base for business generalists and, in particular, the last bastion in academia of cross-disciplinary thought and teaching.

Content: Article | Author: James O’Toole | Source: University of Southern California | Subject: Leadership

As a leader, you cannot motivate anyone. What you can do is cultivate a workplace where it is more likely for someone to experience optimal motivation.

Optimal motivation means having the positive energy, vitality, and sense of well-being required to sustain the pursuit and achievement of meaningful goals while flourishing. Optimal motivation is the result of satisfying three basic psychological needs that lie at the heart … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Susan Fowler | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Hal Gregersen has discovered one consistent characteristic across the companies he’s studied in The World’s Most Innovative Companies; the ability of these leaders to ask lots of deep, provocative questions to which they don’t have the answers. In essence, they’re inquisitive learners.

Content: Quotation | Author: Hal Gregersen | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Next time you find yourself in a crisis moment, ask this question: what is the best outcome from here? Firstly, those around you will likely go into shock. We are not used to hearing an intelligent, helpful question in a crisis situation. Once they get over their shock, it will work for three reasons: It assumes that there actually is an outcome; It focuses everybody … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Peter Fuda | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Crisis Management, Decision Making, Leadership

Contrary to popular opinion, hope is not an emotion; it is a process that anyone can master. The theory was first laid down by pioneering psychologist Charles R. Snyder. In short, hope equals goals, plus pathways to reach those goals, times a sense of agency (the belief that my effort makes a difference). So if you or your team are feeling anxious and fearful, first … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Peter Fuda | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

In the new world of deep interconnectivity, what we call the Social Age, leaders are confronted with challenges that constantly test ‘who they are’ while making each of these tests public with everyone able to comment. … Social Age leadership challenges … five areas of ‘who we are’ as leaders that most impact our leadership narrative. … There is no one right way to lead … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Frank Guglielmo, Sudhanshu Palsule | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Personal Development

We swim in an ocean of feedback. Bosses, colleagues, customers—but also family, friends, and in-laws—they all have “suggestions” for our performance, parenting, or appearance. We know that feedback is essential for healthy relationships and professional development—but we dread it and often dismiss it.

That’s because receiving feedback sits at the junction of two conflicting human desires. We do want to learn and grow. And we also … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

What we have done for ourselves dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development, Social Responsibility (ESG)

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult

Content: Quotation | Author: Goethe | Subjects: Action, Leadership, Management, Thought

The Stanford professor explains how social distance (construal-level theory) affects how people respond to feedback.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Laura W. Geller, Nir Halevy | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Communication is essential in a healthy organization. But all too often when we interact with people—especially those who report to us—we simply tell them what we think they need to know. This shuts them down. To generate bold new ideas, to avoid disastrous mistakes, to develop agility and flexibility, we need to practice Humble Inquiry.

Ed Schein defines Humble Inquiry as “the fine art of drawing … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Edgar H. Schein | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Personal Development

Solitude is to genius the stern friend. He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from traveling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development, Thought

The Blue Ocean Leadership Grid can be used to identify what leadership acts and activities should be eliminated, reduced, raised, and created in pursuit of high impact at low cost.

Content: Article | Authors: Renée Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior