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Decades ago, a major disservice was done to business when the idea that managers and leaders were separate and that leaders were “better” than managers was introduced.

The difference between being labeled a good, mediocre, or bad manager is often the difference between how many of the so-called leadership traits the manager embraces. Leaders are said to have vision and the ability to communicate it … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Miki Saxon | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Leadership, Management

The most sensible thing Peter Drucker ever said about leadership is this: “Leadership is all hype. We’ve had three great leaders in this century—Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.” He was right. Those guys had it all: vision, oratorical ability, relationship-building skills, charisma, relentless focus, outside-the-box thinking, follower-attracting magnetism.

Supply your own essential leadership characteristic, and it should not be difficult to make the argument that these fellows … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jim Stroup | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subject: Leadership

For truly preeminent companies and individuals, in every communication, always sell leadership: a definitive belief system, authoritative positioning, conviction of their point of view. Preeminent leaders communicate, in everything they do and say, that they want to lead you to a great yield, or a great result, or greater happiness, or greater profit.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jay Abraham | Subject: Leadership

I understand that you may be trying to start a company and build a website on a shoe string budget.

You may think that you are saving money by hiring an individual or a small Web design shop to create your website.

You may think that you are getting a real deal because the individual or tiny shop happens to be highly creative and truly talented.

You may … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Jill Hubbard Bowman | Source: IP Law for Startups | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Leadership

The study of leadership suffers intellectual neglect and has yet to be considered a serious academic discipline. And though the mission statements of most business schools profess to ‘develop leaders who make a difference in the world’, these same schools produce hardly any serious scholarship or research to advance our understanding of leadership. To fill this void, Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana have invited leading … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana | Subject: Leadership

Jim March says there are two very different kinds of logic for making decisions. One is the logic of consequences. We’re great in business at changing behavior by changing consequences. If we want customers to buy more, we lower prices. If we want salespeople to sell more, we increase their bonuses. But the second kind of logic is the logic of identity. Many of the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Chip Heath, Jim March | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership, Management, Motivation

Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others’ trust in that individual’s gut. That’s one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence. We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Daniel Kahneman | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Confidence, Decision Making, Leadership, Organizational Behavior

How the military can help you learn from your mistakes.

Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Find a bright spot and clone it.

That’s the first step to fixing everything from addiction to corporate malaise to malnutrition. A problem may look hopelessly complex. But there’s a game plan that can yield movement on even the toughest issues. And it starts with locating a bright spot — a ray of hope.

Content: Article | Authors: Chip Heath, Dan Heath | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

You [create a community-oriented style of management] through an engaged management that cares, not a heroic leadership that cures. This means giving up the false dichotomy between leaders and managers. Would you like to work for a manager who doesn’t lead? That can be terribly discouraging. What about a leader who doesn’t manage? That can be awfully disengaging: How is he or she to know … [ Read more ]

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

We work with many scientists, chemists, engineers, and accountants. By training, they are usually able to absorb, digest, and analyze large amounts of information. Their challenge is in making the leap from information to implication. Frequently, head-only leaders will struggle with the implications because wild swings in social, economic, and technological trends undermine logical, fact-based forecasts. Guts-only leaders will miss the boat because their … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo, Stephen H. Rhinesmith | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Decision Making, Leadership

We all know good people who are not good leaders. The human being who gets shoved into the leadership machine is not a lump of unformed clay. As humankind has learned over many millennia, ideal people with exceptional character traits are exceedingly rare. Sometimes truly good people fail as leaders, and sometimes deeply flawed people prove to be great ones.

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

Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over?

People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers might have little in common, but they all started with why. It … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Simon Sinek | Subject: Leadership

Be concerned about due process. People seek fairness—not favors. They want to be heard. They often don’t even mind if decisions don’t go their way as long as the process is fair and transparent.

Content: Quotation | Author: C.K. Prahalad | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.

Content: Quotation | Author: C.K. Prahalad | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Leadership, Management

From the author of the long-running # 1 bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0 comes a landmark study of great leaders, teams, and the reasons why people follow.

Nearly a decade ago, Gallup unveiled the results of a landmark 30-year research project that ignited a global conversation on the topic of strengths. More than 3 million people have since taken Gallup’s StrengthsFinder assessment, which forms the core of several … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Barry Conchie, Tom Rath | Subject: Leadership

The “vision thing” is still with us, but while leaders insist in having a compelling vision, the fact is that many – both the leaders and the visions – leave people standing still, unmoved. A leader who engages stakeholders when developing a vision will, in the end, articulate one that resonates strongly and impels people to act.

Content: Article | Author: Jeffrey Gandz | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Individuals don’t have to be well-rounded, but teams should be.

Content: Article | Authors: Barry Conchie, Tom Rath | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Management

In Transparency, the authors – a powerhouse trio in the field of leadership – look at what conspires against “a culture of candor” in organizations to create disastrous results, and suggest ways that leaders can achieve healthy and honest openness. They explore the lightning-rod concept of “transparency” – which has fast become the buzzword not only in business and corporate settings but in government and … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Daniel Goleman, James O’Toole, Warren Bennis | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

One of the most startling conclusions of Gallup’s research is that there is no one strength that all good leaders possess. What’s more, the most effective leaders are not well-rounded at all, but instead are acutely aware of their talents and use them to their best advantage.

Content: Article | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subject: Leadership