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Leadership, an act or series of acts that moves people in a certain direction can no longer be displayed by a lone, heroic individual. Instead, as this author writes, we need to recognize that leadership can come from anyone who displays leadership as an occasional, discrete act of influence. Yes a leader must provide direction, but the person at the top isn’t the only person … [ Read more ]

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

Great leadership is the result of great fit — between the person and the moment.

Content: Quotation | Author: Barbara Kellerman | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Leadership

Why do some people get promoted, while others do not? What distinguishes CEOs from all others? To answer these questions, New York Times editor Adam Bryant has interviewed more than 200 CEOs for his Corner Office column. In his book, The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed, Bryant shares what he has learned from Xerox CEO Ursula … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Adam Bryant | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Leadership

Judging from the onslaught of books, articles, and blog posts extolling Steve Jobs’ virtues and condemning his vices, the question of whether leaders can replicate Jobs’ results by emulating his methods is an important one. Since most managers quantitatively analyze the factors that affect the performance of their firms, we find it surprising that this great debate has raged in a context largely uninformed by … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Darren Overfield, Rob Kaiser | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Leadership

Companies must cultivate leaders for global markets. Dispelling five common myths about globalization is a good place to start.

Content: Article | Author: Pankaj Ghemawat | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: International, Leadership

The leadership industry, which encompasses countless courses, seminars, workshops, programs, experts, instructors, coaches, and consultants, should be playing a larger role in combating bad leadership. But to do that, it would have to be less fixated on developing good leaders, and more focused on how to stop or at least slow bad ones. Such a shift in focus is worth the effort, especially because there … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Barbara Kellerman | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Leadership

You can’t manage every interaction well. There are times when you can’t talk to people; you have to discriminate. But if you manage three encounters better today than you did yesterday, every day, you can fundamentally change the trajectory of your leadership profile. And we’ve found that people who take on this discipline, just one interaction at a time, start to improve their ability to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Douglas Conant | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Leadership

I have facilitated sessions with CEOs in which I ask, “How many of you could grab your BlackBerry and in the next five minutes produce a list of your top 25 performers?” All the hands go up. Then I ask, “How many, with the same confidence, could produce a list of your most principled or ethical leaders?” Every hand goes down. They all recognize that … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Dov Seidman | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Ethics, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

You can rise quite high in an organization by your own personal ability and by doing things better than other people. But as a CEO, you can’t do it all yourself. When you’re running a company with a presence in 170 different countries, you just can’t be there all the time. So it’s the most important part of your job to build the right team. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Achievement, Career, Corporate Governance, Leadership, Management

Look at all the different stakeholders of the company and define your position toward each of these groups in the first year. With the board, come to an agreement about corporate governance, about responsibilities, about the delegation of power and authority, and about the strategy. Then take the time to build up your relationship with the employees — to communicate with them, to explain to … [ Read more ]

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

What I would say to a new CEO is to draw a diagram and put yourself in the center. At the top of the vertical line, put your board and shareholders; at the bottom of this line, the management team and employees. On the left of the horizontal line, put what we can call the “market-driving factors” — customers, distributors, industrial partners. On the right, … [ Read more ]

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

Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50 percent of your time leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct.

Content: Quotation | Author: Dee Hock | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Leadership

Leaders rarely make a lasting impact on their organizations—even the really, really good ones. Then out of the blue comes a Churchill. Gautam Mukunda discusses his new book, Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter.

Content: Article | Author: Kim Girard | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Leadership

Experts say leadership failure has many signs but they have narrowed the cause to a few that stand out. Few site competence, or knowledge, or lack of experience. When Claudio Fernando-Araoz, head of research for the executive recruitment firm Egon Zehnder International, looked at CEOs who had succeeded and those who had failed, he found the same pattern in America, Germany and Japan: those who … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Executives can thrive at work and in life by adopting a leadership model that revolves around finding their strengths and connecting with others.

Content: Article | Authors: Caroline Webb, Joanna Barsh, Josephine Mogelof | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Leadership

Most people don’t know how to think about the organizational and societal consequences of low trust because they don’t know how to quantify or measure the costs of such a so-called “soft” factor as trust. For many, trust is intangible, ethereal, unquantifiable. If it remains that way, then people don’t know how to get their arms around it or how to improve it. But the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Stephen R. Covey | Source: LeadershipNow | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

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Zachary Tumin and William Bratton, coauthors of Collaborate or Perish! Reaching across Boundaries in a Networked World, introduce an excerpt about how managers can become collaboration catalysts from The Collaboration Imperative: Executive Strategies for Unlocking Your Organization’s True Potential, by Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Leaders at the top have more impact on employee morale and retention than direct bosses do.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

When an upbeat management style becomes excessive, it wards off reality and asks for trouble.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior