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When you say everyone in your company is a leader, it’s like saying everyone is a human. It doesn’t mean anything when everybody is it.

Most organizations are based on the assumption that everybody craves respect and the only way to get it is to climb up in the hierarchy as fast as we can. Companies set up recognition, prestige, pay, benefits, office, and title … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Management Consulting News | Subject: Leadership

To manage well requires that you recognize the subtle, but important, differences between people and that you know how to put those differences to work for your organization. Great managers thrive on helping people experience incremental growth. The dynamic creativity of figuring out how to move from the player to the plays is the real genius of a great manager.

Leadership isn’t about that at all. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Management Consulting News | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Take a walk on the dark side of leadership with executive coaches David Dotlich and Peter Cairo. Why CEOs Fail succeeds in tracking the downfall of careers and companies by defining eleven “derailers”–the deeply ingrained personality traits that shape leadership behavior. Among them: melodrama, aloofness, volatility, perfectionism, eccentricity and eagerness to please.

The authors alternate high profile cases (the arrogance of Enron CEO Jeff Skilling, the … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo | Subject: Leadership

Leadership is not only about delegating, but it is also about showing a proper direction to people. Experts suggest that an organization can gain expertise and enhance its operations if the management’s policies are in place. And, to streamline the policies one should follow certain leadership rules. Hence, it is the onus of organizations to develop public managers with leadership capacity. The paper discusses this … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Robert D. Behn | Source: IBM Center for The Business of Government | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton (Penguin Press, 2004) is the historical biography that business executives should turn to if they wish to learn what leadership is really about. Unique among the historians who write about politics in early America, Chernow has a profound knowledge of management and finance, and this fine book offers business readers a detailed analysis of how a “numbers man” with the greatest … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Ron Chernow | Subjects: Leadership, People

Leadership development is virtually the most important control lever you have for achieving success. You can’t control customers; there are too many of them, and they are, of course, independent. You can’t control the environment; look at all we’ve been through in the past four or five years. But if you have leaders who are adaptable and capable of leading just about anything, you can … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Leadership

Without feedback, you’re just kidding yourself about leadership. The reality is that we can’t make you a better leader; you have to do that yourself. But the more feedback you get, the better you become.

Content: Quotation | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Leadership

Marcus Buckingham spent two decades studying great business leaders. His conclusion: True leaders have a unique ability to make things simple.

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

For mor than 50 years, The U.S. Army Leadership Field Manual has provided leadership training for every officer training program in the U.S. Army. This trade edition brings the manual’s value-based leadership principles and practices to today’s business world. The result is a compelling examination of how to be an effective leader when the survival of your team literally hangs on your decisions. More than … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Source: Department of the Army | Subjects: Leadership, Management

This article explores the extent to which competency-based approaches to leadership fail to match the requirements of organisations by comparing an analysis of competency frameworks with the key concerns and issues of leadership today and tomorrow as identified by leaders themselves. The authors find that to a great extent, the two simply do not match: what leaders identify as important and the language they use … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Richard Bolden | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subject: Leadership

While competency frameworks, used considerately, can have an important role to play, they are no more than a map that can be used to explore and navigate the concepts of leadership and management. Like all maps, however, they only represent a fragment of the complexity of the terrain and over-dependency will fail to engage with the real problems of leading in complex and changing environments. … [ Read more ]

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

To be an effective leader one must demonstrate a low need for approval, because as innovators, leaders have to challenge the comfort zones of the majority, and rejection is part of that territory.

Content: Quotation | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subject: Leadership

Grooming internal talent for senior positions is a surprisingly improvised hit-or-miss proposition at many companies, relying on instinct and biased judgments. A more effective alternative, the Group Evaluation Method, uses a structured and iterative discussion process to assess an individual’s potential for leadership roles and predict which areas need development in order to ensure the candidate’s progress. The nature of group participation means that colleagues … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Randall Cheloha | Source: Mercer Management Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership

In this book, two of the world’s most respected sources of business insight come together to select and profile the 25 most influential businesspeople of the past quarter century. These incisive profiles teach specific lessons you can use to discover, refine, and nurture your own leadership style… achieve breakthrough results… and accelerate your career progress.

The team: Nightly Business Report, the United States’ #1 daily TV … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Jeffrey Brown, Mukul Pandya, Robbie Shell, Sandeep Junnarkar, Susan Warner | Subjects: Leadership, People

Woodrow Wilson defined as an essential ingredient for political leadership: “profound sympathy with those whom he leads – a sympathy which is insight – an insight which is of the heart rather than of the intellect.”

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Leadership

If the river of contemporary leadership theory flows downstream towards authenticity, why attempt to swim upstream by suggesting that there is another side to authenticity? Leadership is less about the inner self than it is about how the leader transforms the identities of followers by modeling alternative plots or “possible selves.”

Content: Article | Author: Raymond T. Sparrowe | Source: Discovery@Olin | Subject: Leadership

Most people learn leadership skills by observing their current leaders, but this works only when they have competent leaders to observe. My advice is to seek out and find the very best leaders you can. Watch them, learn from them, get advice from them. Learn from the best because leadership skills will be a hot currency in the years ahead.

Content: Quotation | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Career, Leadership

How do you lead an increasingly diverse, creative and eclectic workforce? It’s a question that senior executives at this month’s Wharton West Leadership Conference tried to answer based on their own leadership experiences. In the following stories, Knowledge@Wharton reports on presentations by Michael Crooke, president and CEO of Patagonia; Anne Livermore, executive vice president of Hewlett-Packard; Vivek Paul, vice chair and president of Wipro Technologies; … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Leadership

For most leaders, the great challenge is not understanding the practice of leadership: It is practicing their understanding of leadership.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Leadership

Business leaders who want to create an ethical work environment should first identify their own core values and commit to practicing them.

Content: Article | Author: Charles D. Kerns, Ph.D. | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subjects: Ethics, Leadership