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I do not believe you can manage people at all. You can manage all sorts of things in an environment that are frankly pretty perfunctory to allow people to achieve their goals – you manage the schedule, you manage the budget. But, you lead people.

If your interaction with a person ends with you thinking, “I need to manage what they do, or how they … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Leaders teach. Teaching and leading are distinguishable occupations, but every great leader teaches–and every great teacher is leading.

Content: Quotation | Source: Help Desk Institute Austin | Subjects: Leadership, Teaching

The inability of leaders to see the systems and patterns of interdependency within and surrounding our organizations threatens our future. Many big problems that could be solved are sitting there unsolved because of this failure.

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

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Leadership

In all of my writing about change I distinguish between bold strokes and long marches. If you have the authority, there are certain things you can do with the stroke of the pen. You can make a decision to open something, close something, lay off workers or make an acquisition. That’s a bold stroke. A long march is leading people in a new direction that … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

It is not the job of a CEO to make employees listen to what you have to say; it is about setting up the system so that people want to listen. The combination of the right environment and a culture that creates wants instead of requirements places few limits on what employees can achieve.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Finding the Best and Brightest proposes an approach to choosing leaders based on a set of criteria designed to align individual qualities with organizational or institutional goals. Peg Thoms challenges the popular trend in theory and practice toward “transformational” or “visionary” leadership, arguing instead that leadership must be developed in context; many organizations, for example, don’t need visionaries as much as they need “operational” leaders, … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Peg Thoms | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’

Content: Quotation | Source: USTelecom dailyLead | Subjects: Communication, Leadership, People, Personal Development

Leadership has recently become a popular subject for research, debate and discussion with the result of numerous studies being found in business-related literature. This document serves as a brief overview of both classical and recent thoughts on leadership with particular reference to contemporary demands on today’s leaders. It includes the most important arguments for and against the development of a unique African leadership model (as … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: T L Beukman | Source: University of Pretoria | Subject: Leadership

The focus of this e-book is management and leadership; it contains nine essays based on conversations with nine talented business authors and experts. Each author has thoroughly researched his or her topic and offers perspectives that are intellectually stimulating, helpful, and actionable.

Contents include:
1 Go Deep Fast with Keith Ferrazzi
2 Organic Leadership with Peter Han
3 HOT Teams and Getting in the Mood … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Lisa Haneberg | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Leadership, Management

I’m a translator. Every CEO has to be. When we have an idea factory like IDEO talk to us about innovation, it’s my job to translate what they say into GE. That means putting it in terms of process and metrics.

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

[change] efforts will not succeed unless top management teams and their leaders are prepared to ask themselves two of the most difficult questions of all: “To what extent are we part of the problem?” and, harder yet, “To what extent am I part of the problem?” Only when they address these difficult questions honestly and openly can leaders begin the vital task of changing their … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

What the people of an organization want from their leader are answers to the following: Where are we going? How are we going to get there? What is my role? The more clarity that can be added to each of the three questions, the better the result.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

In understanding the distinction between socially intelligent and politically intelligent leaders, it’s important to realize that they share certain skills. Both types of leaders are adept at sizing up other people. Both possess keen, discriminating eyes–but they notice different things. For instance, socially intelligent leaders assess people’s strengths and figure out how to leverage them, while politically intelligent leaders focus on people’s weaknesses and insecurities.

Not … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those who are led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.

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

Despite decades of research and a constant search for ways to capture and nurture the essences of leadership, consistent, proven approaches to leadership development have proven elusive. The primary reason for varying perspectives and methods is that most definitions and development practices focus on selected aspects of the phenomenon. This article reviews some research on leadership and shows how a systems approach can help clarify … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Stephen C. Schoonover | Source: Schoonover Associates | Subject: Leadership

From the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership Web site, an insightful piece by famed leadership writer Walter Ulmer offers general thoughts on a variety of leadership topics.

Content: Article | Author: Walter F. Ulmer Jr. | Source: The Academy of Leadership | Subject: Leadership

Developing high potentials to take on key senior leadership roles is complex and challenging for organizations – beginning with how to define “high potential.” Most organizations can identify, with varying degrees of formality, their short list of likely future senior leaders. But, by definition, the characteristics of these high potentials are illusive. How do you recognize promise, or know it when you see it? This … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Ellen Foley | Source: Forum | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

In various wisdom traditions, the lists of traits or principles may differ somewhat, but the underlying intentions are very similar. The very practice of cultivating these traits yields not only results that affect those around one, but also imbues one’s very life with a greater degree of meaning and satisfaction.

In Buddhism, these are sometimes referred to as “the paramitas of the bodhisattva” or “the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Jamie S. Walters | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

Bold strokes and a powerful personality are the defining qualities of a heroic leader. But shunning the spotlight, the quiet leader works, circumspect and practical, to transform, inspire – and win.

Content: Article | Author: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Leadership