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Art Kleiner introduces a leadership lesson from Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning, 3rd Edition, by Chip R. Bell and Marshall Goldsmith.

Content: Article | Authors: Art Kleiner, Chip R. Bell, Marshall Goldsmith | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Too many training and development efforts fall short because they don’t factor in employees’ talents

Content: Article | Authors: Aniruddh Haralalka, Leong Chee Tung | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Whether you’re newly-promoted into your first management role, an established veteran of the C-suite, or somewhere between, your most powerful skill as a leader is the ability to hold effective conversations.

After a promotion to a management or leadership role, most people struggle with how to leave behind former priorities and mindsets. Leadership Conversations defines and distinguishes the very different mindsets of management and leadership, and … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Alan S. Berson, Richard G. Stieglitz | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Personal Development

Who wouldn’t want a higher level of emotional intelligence? Studies have shown that a high emotional quotient (or EQ) boosts career success, entrepreneurial potential, leadership talent, health, relationship satisfaction, humor, and happiness. It is also the best antidote to work stress and it matters in every job — because all jobs involve dealing with people, and people with higher EQ are more rewarding to deal … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

In the landmark 1978 book, Leadership, author James McGregor Burns focused almost exclusively on political leaders because he felt that the ability of followers to exercise choice between potential leaders was a prerequisite for leadership. Compelled obedience—whether by physical force, financial threat, or other means—simply didn’t qualify as leadership. Business executives received but scant attention. Their job, after all, was management. And while employees may … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Eric McNulty, James MacGregor Burns | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Leadership

There is a difference between leadership and management. The leader and the men who follow him represent one of the oldest, most natural, and most effective of all human relationships. The manager and those he manages are a later product with neither so romantic, nor so inspiring a history. Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision – its practice is an art. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management

When I worked for Disney World, I hired the best people possible. They were so good that I was often asked, “With all these great people working for you, what exactly do you do?” My answer was: “I’m the chief ecologist.” I focused on nurturing a healthy, nontoxic ecosystem in which everyone had the motivation, the skills, and the means to deliver sensational service.

Content: Quotation | Author: Lee Cockerell | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Communication, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

From the bestselling coauthor of the business classic The Wisdom of Teams comes an all-new exploration of the modern workplace, and how leaders and managers must embrace it for success. Katzenbach and Khan examine how two distinct factions together form the bigger picture for how organizations actually work: the more defined “formal” organization of a company-the management structure, performance metrics, and processes-and the “informal”-the culture, … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Jon R. Katzenbach, Zia Khan | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Is boring suddenly good…and inspirational bad? Stanford professor Bob Sutton explains what he’s learned from hundreds of conversations with Silicon Valley’s brightest stars.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Leigh Buchanan, Robert I. Sutton | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Leadership

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Once there was a notion that managers could do it all. But the notion fell into disfavor when “leadership” – for example, the heroic leader – emerged and pushed managers aside and stripped them of their responsibilities. The manager became a second-class citizen. This author states that the time has come to empower managers and recognize and elevate the important role that they play in … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Mitch McCrimmon, Ph.D. | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Management

You have a duty to find and keep great leaders — not only to produce results but also because they coach and mentor the next group of leaders. When people get promoted to their level of incompetence, they end up managing a group of people who are more talented than they are. Then they start playing politics because they’re insecure about the people below them. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Raad Al-Saady | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

The knee-jerk reaction of too many people in leadership positions when they feel wronged is righteous indignation and the urge for revenge. But one factor that sets truly transformational leaders apart from the run-of-the-mill is the ability to forgive – to let feelings of anger, resentment and blame fall away and become something constructive. Great leaders know the art of reconciliation.

Content: Article | Author: Manfred Kets de Vries | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Leadership, Management

There are five key dimensions of leadership: direction, drive, execution, influence, and relationship. To be a leader, you must be talented in these five dimensions. Does the presence of those talents make you a leader? No. It increases your probability of being successful as a leader, but you also need key experiences. Having enough key experiences combined with innate leadership talent gives you high predictive … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Randall J. Beck | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subject: Leadership

It may be overly simplistic to say that a company’s success depends on the quality of its communication and internal dialogue. But look at the top and you’ll see that a leader who is authentic is a leader who has inspired clear and honest communication.

Content: Article | Authors: Jan Birchfield, M. Carl Johnson III, Paul Wieand | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Management

To eminent systems therapist David Kantor, learning to recognize the hidden patterns in conversation is the first step toward more effective executive leadership.

Editor’s Note: see a related video by David Kantor, which describes how leaders can uncover hidden patterns in conversation in order to more effectively inspire their teams, and shape group conversations.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: David Kantor | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Making sense of the environment in which a company is operating and creating structures and processes to move the organization ahead are key to leading.

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Deborah Ancona, Karl Moore | Source: The Globe and Mail | Subject: Leadership

The results of our encounters are rarely neutral; they are almost always positive or negative. And although we take these interactions for granted, they accumulate and profoundly affect our lives. Great managers know this and see every interaction as an opportunity to engage.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Jessica Tyler, Tom Rath | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Communication, Leadership, Management

Every year, hundreds of thousands of new graduates enter the business world, eager to climb the corporate ladder. Their progress on the early rungs of that journey will often be determined by qualities like hard work, determination, knowledge and technical proficiency. But Alan S. Berson and Richard G. Stieglitz, authors of Leadership Conversations: Challenging High-Potential Managers to Become Great Leaders, argue that those same qualities … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Alan S. Berson, Richard G. Stieglitz | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Personal Development