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In this engaging and hard-hitting guide to leadership, Joe Healey reveals a simple, yet powerful method for teaching the four competencies necessary to build performance-enhancing trust. Using inspiring case studies and stories of real leaders, Healey shows how these four competencies form the foundation of financial success in this age of global competition. While recent books make the case for why trust is important, Radical … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Joe Healey | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers.

Content: Quotation | Author: Colin Powell | Subjects: Communication, Leadership

True power requires modesty and empathy, not force and coercion, argues Dacher Keltner. But what people want from leaders—social intelligence—is what is damaged by the experience of power. [Hat Tip to Seth Levine, Brad Feld]

Content: Article | Author: Dacher Keltner | Source: Greater Good | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

In her book, Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace, Michalle E. Mor Barak talks about how ancient Chinese tradition divides people into categories based on four qualities: Shi (scholars), Nong (farmers), Gong (artisans) and Shang (merchants). The belief is that to be a fully effective leader, one must acquire the ” . . . vision and ethics of the scholar, the appreciation and respect … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Al Vivian, Michalle E. Mor Barak | Subjects: Diversity, Leadership, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Popular wisdom suggests that fewer than 20% of all change initiatives are really successful. More alarming still for top managers, a survey of 1087 corporate directors, reported in BusinessWeek in 2005, found that 31% of CEOs fired by their boards were removed because they mismanaged change; more than any other cause. Why is this happening—and why do we need another book purporting to have “the … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: David M. Herold, Donald B. Fedor | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Where both CEO and COO roles are employed, an effective working relationship between the two executives is increasingly critical to successful governance. This paper describes design options for structuring this CEO-COO working relationship. We begin with a taxonomy of corporate leadership roles and related behaviors that together define the collective executive team leadership responsibilities of the CEO and COO. We then present some alternative models … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Oliver Wyman | Subject: Leadership

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A new approach to leadership can help women become more self-confident and effective business leaders.

Content: Article | Authors: Joanna Barsh, Rebecca A. Craske, Susie Cranston | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Leadership

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Theodore Roosevelt | Sources: History as Literature, Hold this Thought | Subjects: Achievement, Action, Leadership, Success / Failure

The environment has taken center stage recently in the media. Perhaps “environment” should be the word at the center of leadership conversations as well. Consciously or unconsciously, leaders cultivate the environment in their workplaces. Some are lush climates where leaders flourish and thrive, while others are toxic environments where leaders either leave or wither from the pollution. This article poses five questions about the environment … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: John Maxwell | Source: The Mindful Network | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

The environment has taken center stage recently in the media. Perhaps “environment” should be the word at the center of leadership conversations as well. Consciously or unconsciously, leaders cultivate the environment in their workplaces. Some are lush climates where leaders flourish and thrive, while others are toxic environments where leaders either leave or wither from the pollution. This article poses five questions about the environment … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: John Maxwell | Source: The Mindful Network | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

This paper develops a model of adaptive leadership, which is leadership that helps organizations adapt to new or existing realities. A manager provides adaptive leadership by exposing the organization toa novel experience that demonstrates that the firm’s beliefs do not match reality. Exposure to the novel experience creates distress, which decreases utility for managers and lowers productivity.The prospects for increasing profits by improving beliefs, the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Mark A. Jamison | Subject: Leadership

When leaders give reasons for change to people who don’t agree with them, it’s worse than ineffective. A significant body of research shows that it usually entrenches those people more deeply in opposition to what the leaders are proposing.

This is why the traditional leadership approach of trying to persuade people of something different by giving them reasons why they should change their minds isn’t … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Stephen Denning | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership, Management

Leaders aren’t good merely at decision making. In a multi-polar world, “CEO” also stands for “chief education officer.” A stumbling point for many organizations on a major change journey is that the top level of management has often moved on emotionally toward the new destination before many others have even started on the journey.

An effective CEO needs to step back and bring people along, to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Peter Cheese, Walter G. Gossage, Yaarit Silverstone | Source: Outlook Journal (Accenture) | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership, Management

Desiring alignment and delivering it are two different matters. We have found that the concept of a brand promotes alignment between external expectations and internal actions. In marketing terms, brand represents the expectations associated with a product or service that differentiates it from competitor offerings in the minds of customers and influences customer opinion, choice, and behavior. We can adapt this definition to define three … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Dave Ulrich, Norman Smallwood | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Marketing / Sales

Leaders have to achieve psychological independence to enable them to apply their talents to the work at hand. This independence frees the leader to expand on his or her talents and thereby become an object to allow subordinates to identify with and to cultivate and apply their own talents in the interests of meeting and even expanding on objectives.

Content: Quotation | Author: Abraham Zaleznik | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Leadership, Personality / Behavior

A consistent leadership philosophy is the hardest thing to ensure in companies that turn over as frequently as Western companies do and that have such a short-term orientation toward their returns.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jeffrey Liker | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

When a learning organization takes a leap forward — for example, when it makes a breakthrough internally or with a new product — its people then slow down to see what they can gain in understanding from what they’ve just done. The only companies that are going to be able to learn in that way are those with an organizational structure that stresses a continuity … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jeffrey Liker | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Learning, Organizational Behavior

When it comes to communicating effectively, leaders must not only be mindful that less is more but that strategy trumps tactics. These co-authors, professors and communications consultants, argue that leaders are more than willing to communicate, but that they too often approach the task on a tactical rather than strategic level. Moreover, these same leaders may use every medium and format available, but they rarely … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Laurey Berk, M. Lee Williams, Phillip G. Clampitt | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Leadership

What factors are involved in shaping up a leader, in preparing him / her to take up the leadership role, getting him / her ready to be precise? In studying the various aspects of readiness and during various brainstorming sessions in class we have developed a leadership readiness model with the help of human anatomy. The factors are ordered, ranked and discussed with respect to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Wali Zahid | Subject: Leadership