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Visualize a leader with virtues such as courage and integrity, as well as five key types of intelligence, and you’ve got a clear picture of the cross-enterprise leader. So equipped, such a leader has what it takes to adopt the enterprise-wide perspective that is necessary to make the right decisions for creating and delivering value to all stakeholders.

Content: Article | Authors: Gerard H. Seijts, Jeffrey Gandz, Mary Crossan | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Leadership

The Graduate Management Admission Council, which markets the GMAT business school entrance exam, today launched a new online assessment tool designed to improve leadership and other “soft” skills. It comes with access to advice from executive coaches and an online library of content that allows users to develop skills at their own pace. It costs $99 for three years.

Content: Article | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Leadership, MBA Related, Personal Development

The diversity of identities and personalities in today’s knowledge workplace complicates a leader’s task. However, knowing what factors shaped and still influence those identities can help a leader understand – and predict – why certain personalities behave in certain ways. Made aware and sensitized, a leader comes to respect those identities. In turn, followers come to respect the leader.

Content: Article | Author: Michael Maccoby | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

I’ve met two types of leaders. The first is like Tom West, the leader of the computer-building team at Data General in The Soul of a New Machine. West says in the book that success is like pinball. If you win with one project, you get to play again. I think a lot of senior executives are just that kind of person: They like to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Clayton M. Christensen | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Elegance requires that you subtract. Leaders should ask themselves two questions: One: What would the people in my organization like me to reduce or stop doing? Two: What would my competitors hate for me to reduce or stop doing? This is challenging, of course, because adding is a human inclination.

Content: Quotation | Author: Matthew E. May | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Management is intrinsically result-oriented. Managers develop work schedules, set goals and delegate responsibility. They are there to answer questions and to assist employees in completing their tasks. Their orientation is tactical and geared to solving problems. Nonetheless, even at the lowest levels, managers are challenged to develop a new mindset, a new set of skills. As a so-called “high potential” moves up from individual contributor … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Want to be a better leader? Or find management inspiration, at least? Here you can learn from a baker’s dozen of the most prevalent types.

Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Leadership

In 1940, a war-weary Britain was on the verge of capitulation. Here’s how Churchill turned it around–and what it means for you.

Content: Article | Author: Hitendra Wadhwa | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

This third edition of the classic resource, Productive Workplaces is smart, well-written and well-researched, thoughtful, somewhat provocative, and a one-of-a-kind review of the integration of economics, technology, and people. It covers such topics as: the work on self as integral to organizational change; the revision of Lewinian concepts for a new era; and the history behind “getting everybody improving whole systems” as a response to … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Marvin R. Weisbord | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

We now know that the shareholders and the financial industry won that battle for corporate control. In the business schools, the finance function emerged as top dog and the economists began to apply the teachings of their discipline to the firm via organizational economics (agency theory and transaction cost economics). The resulting shareholder value model of the firm has dominated for the last thirty years … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: David K. Hurst | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Economics, Finance, Leadership, MBA Related

The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Content: Quotation | Author: Warren Bennis | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

Why has the development of collaborative leadership skills lagged the evolution of organizational structures? Organizations usually get the kind of behaviour they reward, and they have historically rewarded achievement-oriented leaders who drive short-term results. As a result, companies have ended up with leaders who excel at the achievement orientation, teamwork and organizational awareness competencies that are associated with strong functional leadership.

The problem is that … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Rick Lash | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

In 2009 Steven Kaplan, Mark Klebanov, and Morten Sorenson completed a study called “Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?” They relied on detailed personality assessments of 316 CEOs and measured their companies’ performances. There is no one personality style that leads to corporate or any other kind of success. But they found that the traits that correlated most powerfully with success were attention to detail, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: David Brooks | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Success / Failure

The influential business author and CEO explains why the practice of enlightened self-governance gives companies an edge.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Dov Seidman | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Ethics, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

In Reading the Room, renowned systems psychologist and family therapist David Kantor applies his theory of structural dynamics to help leaders and coaches understand and improve communication within their teams. He helps readers understand how and why they and their teams communicate differently when faced with low-stakes or high-stakes situations, and he provides a framework to help improve leadership behavior in high-stakes situations.

Acknowledging that early … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: David Kantor | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Carol Bartz is widely-known in Silicon Valley for two things: being a high-profile executive at some of the best-known technology companies, and being a pull-no-punches speaker who says whatever is on her mind. Both traits were in evidence at a recent talk on Wharton’s San Francisco campus during which she discussed how bad bosses can be as instructive as good ones, how important it is … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Career, Leadership

In every organization of any size, work must be segmented and people hired who have specialized knowledge of one part of the organization and its work. As a result, all organizations consist of disparate groups with often-conflicting needs, goals, and priorities. In spite of their differences, however, these groups depend on each other. No group can work in isolation. What makes this combination of differences … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Kent L. Lineback, Linda A. Hill | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

CEOs who took part in Booz & Company’s 2011 study of CEO turnover share their thoughts about the difficulties they faced, the successes they achieved, and what, in retrospect, they might have done differently in their first year on the job.

Content: Article | Authors: Gary L. Neilson, Ken Favaro, Per-Ola Karlsson | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Leadership, Management

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All the governance structures in the world can be boiled down to three types. The open system is consensual and unregulated until it hits a point of action, and then an authority, chosen by the group, decides. A representative democracy is an open system. In the closed system, authority rests with position—the closer you are to the top of the hierarchy, the more authority you … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: David Kantor | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Decision Making, Government, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior