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The best meetings have two leaders, advocates and synthesists. Advocates openly press for a particular point of view. Synthesists explore all points of view and keep the discussion calm, logical, and moving forward. Only schizophrenics can hope to play both roles simultaneously. So if you’re one of those Alphas who feels compelled to fight openly for your views, let someone else run the meeting. The … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Resilience is one of the key qualities desired in business leaders today, but many people confuse it with toughness. Toughness is an aspect of resilience, certainly, as it enables people to separate emotion from the negative consequences of difficult choices. It can be an advantage in business, but only to a point. That’s because it can create an armor that deflects emotion, and it can … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Leadership

In his new book about ‘know-how,’ the author describes eight skills that separate great leaders from the crowd.

Content: Article | Author: Ram Charan | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subject: Leadership

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible but for what we do not do.

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Accountability, Leadership

A winning formula is each person’s distinctive way of making a difference. Winning formulas have two essential components: what you pay attention to and what you do about it. Some people focus on the unexpressed needs of key players and become the “go-to guy” for solving problems. Others concentrate on what’s missing or flawed in an endeavor and act as the watchdogs for errors or … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

If you aren’t fighting for something bigger than yourself, you’ll be nothing more than just one more ambitious, opportunistic asshole who’s trying to claw his way to the top. Personal ambition may motivate you, but it’s not going to motivate anyone to follow you. Being a warrior and a leader is not about achieving personal success. Success usually does come to leaders, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior | Subjects: Leadership, Values

Here is a seven-step formula you can use to create accountability and achieve extraordinary results in any organization.

Content: Article | Author: Bob Prosen | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management

If you look at leadership in America, the message isn’t that every leader becomes well-rounded and fixes their failings. The message is partnership. You need to put a system in place to compensate for weaknesses. There is a limit to how much you can rewire someone’s brain. For example, some people don’t think strategically. They don’t play out what-if scenarios; they don’t anticipate and put … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

Lessons learned from these execs will sharpen your decision-making skills.

Content: Article | Author: Michael Useem | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Leadership, Management

To create an organization that makes high quality decisions, one first needs to understand the larger dynamics that govern decision making and decision quality. They are:
– A decision is only as good as the weakest link
– How one frames decisions matters
– One can’t judge a decision by the outcome
– Decisions are linked
– One can’t know everything beforehand
– … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Clint Korver, Kevin Hoffberg | Source: DQI | Subjects: Leadership, Management

If leadership is not primarily a set of skills and behaviors, what is it? How about this: leadership is a conversation about truly important things between people who come to care about those things. As my colleague Eliot Daley says: Leaders give people permission to “care out loud.” We study what great leaders said, because what they said is important and the fact that they … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subject: Leadership

What passes for a conversation in most organizations is not a conversation about facts, but a conversation about competing interpretations of the facts masquerading as a conversation about facts. So, here it is the job of a leader to encourage people to make the distinction between their observations and their interpretations of their observations.

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Leadership arises from a commitment to achieving a result that truly matters to you. If your vision requires the help and support of others, then in all likelihood you will be seen as a leader. My working definition of leadership is simply this: Leadership is what the rest of us call it when we see someone doing something they love and we want to help. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subject: Leadership

The relationship between leader and follower is intimate. To study the leader in isolation is misleading. Leaders make leaders, followers make leaders, the times make leaders. All are important.

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subject: Leadership

The prevailing view in North America is that the individual makes himself or herself a leader. I think it’s more accurate to say that leadership happens when someone takes a stand in favor of a desired future that other people also desire, either actively or latently. While the act of taking this stand is resolute, essentially individual, and often quite solitary, leadership also has a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subject: Leadership

The really tough choices . . . don’t center upon right versus wrong. They involve right versus right. They are genuine dilemmas precisely because each side is firmly rooted in one of our basic, core values. Four such dilemmas are so common to our experience that they stand as models, patterns, or paradigms. They are:
– Truth versus loyalty
– Individual versus community
– Short-term … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Sources: DQI, Leadership and Decision Making | Subjects: Decision Making, Leadership

…you don’t need to know a lot about people’s weaknesses. But you need to know about their strengths. Trying to correct someone’s weaknesses can be a demotivator. People gain confidence when you build on their strengths.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Motivation

People do not need the intricate directions, time lines, plans, and organization charts that we thought we had to give them. These are not how people accomplish good work, they are what impede contributions. But people do need a lot from their leaders. They need information, access to one another, resources, trust, and follow-through. Leaders are necessary to foster experimentation, to help create connections across … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Management

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) is the world’s largest institution devoted exclusively to leadership research and education. For more than three decades, CCL has studied and trained hundreds of thousands of executives and worked with them to create practical models, tools, and publications for the development of effective leaders and leadership. This book brings together the wealth of practical knowledge that CCL has gained … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Source: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) | Subject: Leadership

Most senior managers will step into a new job at some point within the next five years. Many will be recruited or promoted to the top post in their companies. A strong report card during the first 100 days can set the tone for the next 1,000. We asked 20 CEOs to come up with the agenda they would follow if they could start over … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Patrick Ducasse, Tom Lutz | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Career, Leadership