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Workers’ general notions about the effectiveness of male and female managers can be as important as their actual leadership abilities or business results, according to a recent Wharton Executive Development program entitled, “Women in Leadership: Legacies, Opportunities & Challenges.” As a result, women executives need to be exceptionally aware of their own leadership styles and strengths — as well as changes underway in their organizations … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Leadership, Women in Business

Business leaders cannot pretend that what they do is value-free, even if they want to. The individual who aspires to be a leader must throw off traditional typecast roles: the wealthy entrepreneur or investor, the famous deal maker, the tough chief executive, even the charismatic leader. These roles have become commodities – they can be adopted at will by individuals, and even bought and sold … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Mission

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In a new study, Harvard Business School professors Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin Nohria identify the attributes of great leadership — and nominate the best bosses of the 20th century.

Content: Article | Author: Bill Breen | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership

Many of the more conventional books on leadership show leaders as mythic and heroic figures. Students want their leaders to be perfect and without any personal blemishes. What they fail to realize is that sometimes the very qualities that make someone imperfect also help explain their tremendous drive to succeed and energy to focus on one narrow realm of achievement.

Content: Quotation | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Leadership

ileen Shapiro thinks that betting is a part of everyday life. Check out her four tests (and one proxy) for action-based leadership.

Content: Article | Author: Eileen Shapiro | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Leadership

The power of leaders is a consequence of the actions of followers rather than a cause of it. Otherwise, no parent would ever be resisted by their children, no CEO would ever face a defeat by the board of directors, no general would suffer a mutiny, and no strikes would ever occur. That they do should lead us to conclude that no leader is omnipotent, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Leadership

In many fast-moving, successful companies, strong, successful leaders who fail a challenge present a real dilemma to the organization. Although failure is a powerful teacher, it can also throw sand in the gears of succession planning. The paradox is that even though Bob’s failure may make Bob a stronger leader, it may also make Bob seem weaker in the eyes of everyone else. Rarely is … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership

Emotionally responsive leaders know the value of investing in their people. They recognize that most people at work want the chance to do a variety of things and to take on challenges. They also want and respond to being treated with respect and dignity. But when they are hurting, they cannot bring their intellectual and emotional qualities fully to bear on their performance. They lose … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Leadership

Remember that old adage about a leader being someone who will take you to places you would never go on your own. Well, if you allow them to, customers will do that for you. If you really listen, they will tell you exactly where you are as a business. They tell you the painful truth, they are not worried about careers or promotion and they … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Customer Related, Leadership

Answers are a finite game played within boundaries, rules, and expectations. Questions are an infinite game; they play with the boundaries, they define them. Great leaders are called by great questions.

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

Emotional intelligence has become a popular topic in the business press in recent years. This article help leaders understand and develop emotional intelligence competencies. This study compares scores on Benchmarks to self-reported emotional intelligence as measured by the BarOn EQ-i. It shows that the key leadership skills and perspectives are related to aspects of emotional intelligence and the absence of emotional intelligence was related to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jean Brittain Leslie, Judith L. Steed, Kelly Hannum, Marian N. Ruderman | Source: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) | Subjects: Career, Leadership

Managers rely on systems, leaders rely on people. Managers work on getting things right, leaders work on the right things. The answer to every problem, choice, or opportunity in our company is known to someone or some team in the company. The leader only has to find that person, listen, and help them effect the change.

Content: Quotation | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Leadership

The day you become a leader, it becomes about them. Your job is to walk around with a can of water in one hand and a can of fertilizer in the other hand. Think of your team as seeds and try to build a garden. It’s about building these people.

Content: Quotation | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Leadership

Examining strategy through the lens of leadership focuses the topic on the critical tasks that a leader must undertake to create and execute strategy. In choosing this focal point, managers may find that some strategic activities such as industry analysis, competitive analysis, and internal analysis become their second priority because it is not as important for the leader to do them as it is to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jack C. Green, Ph.D., James N. Fuller | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subjects: Leadership, Strategy

How can you recognize leadership potential in a young person? The most important clue is whether the person has identified and sought out a work situation in which he or she feels real passion. If a person doesn’t have the drive or ability to get his or her own situation right, how will he or she be able to do this for a company?

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Leadership

Real leaders have one particular commonality that is easy to spot: maturity. Mature leaders know when to lead, when to follow and when to get out of the way.

Content: Article | Author: Estienne de Beer | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Leadership

It was Tom Peters, in an article in the Harvard Business Review on what makes a successful leader, who concluded that great leaders were frighteningly smart, had tons of animal energy, were blessed with monumental impatience, were able to distil a vision for their troops, recognised and resolved the big issues, maintained a healthy disgust for bureaucracy, were performance freaks, were honest, straightforward straight shooters, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Ray Weekes | Source: LeaderValues | Subject: Leadership

Knowing how to adapt your style will empower you to develop powerful communication and relationship strategies which will equip you for better leadership and so produce greater results.

Editor’s Note: describes 7 basic leadership styles based on The Leadership Gifting Indicator™

Content: Article | Author: Ken Buist | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Leadership

A leader has two important characteristics; first he is going somewhere; second he is able to persuade others to go with him.

Content: Quotation | Source: LeaderValues | Subject: Leadership