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Here are ten great leader strategies, along with a brief explanation of each one and tips for implementing them.

Editor’s Note: the best leadership article I have read recently.

Content: Article | Author: Lee Cockerell | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Management

One of the great false assumptions in leadership development is, “if they understand, they will do”. If this were true, everyone who understood the importance of going on a healthy diet and exercising would be in shape.

Content: Quotation | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Great leaders always focus on others, not on themselves. They hire the right people, train them, trust them, respect them, listen to them, and make sure to be there for them. As a result, they get committed people who work hard and give their best because they feel involved, appreciated, and proud of what they do.

Content: Quotation | Author: Lee Cockerell | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Leadership

If a business requires a superstar to produce great results, the business itself cannot be deemed great.

Content: Quotation | Author: Warren Buffett | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

We’ve overdone this whole leadership/founder/entrepreneur thing. And we’re not spending nearly enough time crediting the folks who turn all that visionary stuff into tangible reality: the chief operating officers, the midlevel managers, the staffers. If the word didn’t have a pejorative tinge to it, I guess you’d call them followers.

We degrade the very idea of followers — lemmings! — yet the world needs people who … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Nancy Lublin | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Leadership

In reviews of leadership writings and research, Bob Sutton kept bumping into an old and popular distinction that has always bugged him: leading versus managing. Rather than rejecting the distinction between leadership and management, he says that the best leaders do something that might properly be called a mix of leadership and management. At a minimum, they lead in a way that constantly takes into … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Robert I. Sutton | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Today’s world requires a new breed of agile leaders. Research reveals that leaders develop agility by moving through five hierarchical stages: Expert, Achiever, Catalyst, Cocreator, and Synergist.

Content: Article | Authors: Stephen A. Josephs, William B. Joiner | Source: American Management Association (AMA) | Subject: Leadership

Recently, Bob Sutton posted a list of 12 Things Good Bosses Believe. Now he’s following up by delving into each one of them. This post is about the third belief: “Having ambitious and well-defined goals is important, but it is useless to think about them much. My job is to focus on the small wins that enable my people to make a little progress every … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Robert I. Sutton | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Leaders are increasingly finding themselves in situations where they need help from subordinates, and in which subordinates are asking for help in areas where leaders are not experts. To manage either situation effectively, a leader will have to develop a degree of humility and specific process skills. Readers will learn how to achieve those difficult goals in this article by the dean of organizational behavior. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Edgar H. Schein | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Good leaders are people with a conscience who respect and reward all the four drives of other stakeholders [the drive to acquire, to defend, to bond, and to comprehend], even as they respect and reward their own drives.

Content: Quotation | Author: Paul R. Lawrence | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Leadership

For seventeen years and through two editions, this Handbook has been the indispensable “bible” for every serious student of leadership. This third edition reflects the growth and changes in the study of leadership since the 1981 edition. There have been shifts in both content and method. Senior managers, for example, have become an increasing subject of inquiry. Distinctly separate fields of inquiry, such as … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Bernard M. Bass | Subject: Leadership

To do the right thing, a leader needs to understand what it takes to do things right, and to make sure they actually get done.

Content: Quotation | Author: Robert I. Sutton | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Leadership, Management

In every company, there are really two organizations at work: the informal and the formal. High-performance companies mobilize their informal organizations while maintaining and adding formal structures, balancing the two.

Content: Article | Authors: Jon R. Katzenbach, Zia Khan | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior | Company: Campbell Soup Company

Recently, Bob Sutton posted a list of 12 Things Good Bosses Believe. Now he’s following up by delving into each one of them. This post is about the second belief: “My success — and that of my people — depends largely on my being the master of obvious and mundane things, not on magical, obscure, or breakthrough ideas or methods.”

Content: Article | Author: Robert I. Sutton | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Many leaders fail to effectively tap in to the knowledge and experience of their team. Executive and leadership coach John M. McKee says this is like working with one hand tied behind the back. In this article, he shares questions any leader can use to improve results and morale.

Content: Article | Author: John M. McKee | Source: TechRepublic | Subject: Leadership

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

Content: Quotation | Author: Mahatma Gandhi | Subject: Leadership

What is leadership? What must a person do to become a true leader or to turn others into true leaders?

Does knowing leadership personally, reflecting on it intellectually, and experiencing it intimately make leadership easy to understand? No.

Content: Article | Authors: Gen. Tony Zinni, Tony Koltz | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subject: Leadership

The metaphor of social theater comes into play in that the leader has a choice of what role to play once he or she is thrust into a helping situation. There are three possible roles: 1) The leader can be an “expert” who provides information, actually does the job for the subordinate, or in other ways displays superior knowledge or skill; 2) The leader can … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Edgar H. Schein | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

As a subject of scholarly inquiry, leadership—and who leaders are, what makes them tick, how they affect others—has been neglected for decades. The Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Harvard Business School’s Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana, brings together some of the best minds on this important subject. Q&A with Khurana, plus book excerpt.

Content: Article | Authors: Martha Lagace, Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Leadership

In recent years, GE has faced severe business challenges — the company’s $200 billion market cap is half of what it used to be. Still, an area of enormous strength is the way the company identifies and builds leaders. Much of the credit goes to GE’s corporate learning programs, executed through a learning facility in Crotonville, N.Y. As business becomes more global, how is leadership … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Education, Leadership | Company: General Electric (GE)