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Today’s CEOs are increasingly relying on executive teams, which raises some important questions: How do you transform a collection of individuals into a highly functioning team? What makes an executive team so different from the countless other teams that populate every organization? What kinds of work should the team concentrate on? And what role should the CEO play, as both team leader and participant? Executive … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Oliver Wyman | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Here’s a simple diagnostic tool that can be used to facilitate your firm’s discussions of the characteristics it seeks in a leader. The questions that follow include a series of “paired” qualities that a good leader might possess. In each pair, either quality may be desirable. However, the point of pairing these qualities is to ask, If there had to be a choice between the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: David Maister | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Leadership

According to Yale management psychologists David Caruso and Peter Salovey, we should discard antiquated notions such as that decisions should be made with pure logic and cold rationality. Instead, in The Emotionally Intelligent Manager: How to Develop And Use The Four Emotional Skills of Leadership, the authors argue that emotion and thinking are so intertwined that it is unproductive to consider them separately. This concept … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: David Caruso, Peter Salovey | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Unfortunately, most leadership “recipes” arise from examples of good crisis management. This is a mistake, and not only because chaotic situations are mercifully rare…Indeed, a specific danger for leaders following a crisis is that some of them become less successful when the context shifts because they are not able to switch styles to match it.

Moreover, leaders who are highly successful in chaotic contexts can develop … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: David Snowden, Mary E. Boone | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Crisis Management, Leadership

Most of a leader’s important calls reside in one of three domains: people, strategy, or crisis. People judgments—getting the right people on your team and developing up-and-comers who themselves demonstrate good judgment—are foundational. The people around you help you make good strategy judgment calls and the best decisions during the occasional but inevitable crisis. It’s sometimes possible to repair the damage—to a company or a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Noel M. Tichy, Warren G. Bennis | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Judgement, Leadership

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The days, weeks, or months between taking the job and assuming power are precious. Put them to good use.

Content: Article | Authors: Bobby S. Y. Rao, Kevin P. Coyne | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Fear constrains behavior. Love liberates it. So, if all you need is compliance, fear will probably do. But fear freezes initiative, stifles creativity, and provides no incentive to stretch and grow. Love is about wanting and allowing people to be at their best, and engaging with them to help them achieve that.

Content: Quotation | Author: Phil Dourado | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Fear / Doubt, Leadership, Organizational Behavior

How does a leader get the troops- soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen-to commit themselves to a mission? Aristotle offers a mix of empirical and normative observations in the Rhetoric that apply wonderfully.

Content: Article | Author: Jonathan Shay | Subject: Leadership

The history of leadership theory started with an emphasis on traits – the notion that it is the make-up of the leader that makes all the difference. This paper brief seeks to provide a framework that allows us to integrate prior leadership theories, while focusing on what leaders actually do. It is a framework that views leadership as a capacity that both individuals and groups … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Deborah Ancona, Peter Senge, Tom Malone, Wanda Orlikowski | Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Subject: Leadership

Most leadership literature is based on American experience. Is it possible to identify a more European approach?

Content: Article | Author: Phil Hodgson | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: International – Europe, Leadership

ManyWorlds takes a look at the work of Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee on emotional intelligence, including a look at the four dimensions (Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, and Relationship Management) and six leadership styles: Commanding (or Coercive), Authoritative (or Visionary), Affiliative, Democratic, Pacesetting, and Coaching.

Content: Article | Source: ManyWorlds | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Senior managers give voice to a company’s future by articulating metaphors, symbols, and concepts that orient the knowledge-creating activities of employees. They do this by asking the questions, What are we trying to learn? What do we need to know? Where should we be going? Who are we? If the job of frontline employees is to know “what is,” then the job of senior executives … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Sources: Harvard Business Review, The Knowledge-Creating Company | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Bruce Lynn expresses disappointment with On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis as falling into the trap of equating ‘Managers” as ‘Weak Leaders’ or ‘Not Quite Leaders’.

Content: Article | Author: Bruce Lynn | Source: Bruce Lynn Blog | Subjects: Leadership, Management

How is your attitude about your abilities affecting your success?

Content: Article | Authors: Chip Heath, Dan Heath | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership

I have found that there are two kinds of good employees. One is the willing assistant prepared to accept whatever tasks are assigned and to accomplish them with dispatch and good will. The other goes further, anticipating what the needs are going to be and then offering solutions, not problems, ideas, not complaints. This anticipatory role is seldom asked for; nevertheless, it is an important … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership

“I’ve never been Commander in Chief, but I’ve been a CEO. I understand a few things about leadership at the top. I’ve figured out nine points-not ten. I call them the ‘Nine Cs of Leadership'” – says an excerpt from former Chrysler Chairman and CEO Lee Iacocca’s Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

Content: Article | Authors: Francis Adams, Lee Iacocca | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Leadership, People

Readers seeking an atypical business book may like Leadership Can Be Taught. Its author, Sharon Daloz Parks, has a conventional enough background: She’s taught at various Harvard graduate schools, including its Divinity School, the Business School, and the School of Government–the book itself comes from Harvard Business School Press–and she now heads a leadership institute in Washington state, just outside Seattle. Parks’ approach to leadership … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Ronald A. Heifetz, Sharon Daloz Parks | Subject: Leadership

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are most observed.

Content: Quotation | Source: Human Resource Executive Online | Subjects: Leadership, Power / Authority

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Content: Quotation | Source: Human Resource Executive Online | Subject: Leadership