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Without courage, all virtue is fragile: admired, sought after, professed, but held cheaply and surrendered without a fight. Winston Churchill called courage “the first of human qualities . . . because it guarantees all the others.” That’s what we mean by the courage of our convictions. If we lack the courage to hold on to our beliefs in the moment of their testing, not just … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership

One thing we can claim with complete confidence is that fear is indispensable to courage, that it must always be present for courage to exist. You must be afraid to have courage. Suffering is not, by itself, courage; choosing to suffer what we fear is. And yet, too great a distinction is made between moral courage and physical courage. They are in many instances the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership

While it is revealing to consider what constitutes a leader, your search for understanding, for some kind of leadership formula, is apt to end in frustration. It is like studying Michelangelo or Shakespeare: You can imitate, emulate, and simulate, but there is simply no connect-the-dots formula to Michelangelo’s David or Shakespeare’s Hamlet. I suppose, when all is said and done, it really comes down to … [ Read more ]

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

U.S. Senator John McCain offers an insightful look at the concept of courage.

Content: Article | Author: John McCain | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

Self-confidence is not the real secret of leadership. The more essential ingredient is confidence in other people. Leadership involves motivating others to their finest efforts and channeling those efforts in a coherent direction. Leaders must believe that they can count on other people to come through.

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Confidence, Leadership

Many executives are now realizing that building the learning capability of their organizations is critical to achieving their business strategy. But this recognition raises some difficult questions. With all the demands on already-scarce company resources, where will the energy come from to create a learning organization? And if you do manage to find – or create – the necessary energy, how can you sustain that … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Bryan Smith, Joel Yanowitz | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Without a vision, one just has the trappings of leadership. A great vision in tandem with the core values shared by both the leadership and the organization is an unparalleled inspiration. Effective leadership is all about internal beliefs that translate into external values.

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

“In groups, leadership is believed to fulfil two primary goals:
– to complete group tasks
– to fulfil group members’ needs

However, a third function of leadership is to promote group integrity – maintaining the group as a viable system. Such integrity is largely the result of successful task completion and group member satisfaction – the two primary goals above – but it can … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Mark Van Vugt | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Great leaders don’t give better answers; they ask better questions. And they ask them repeatedly…It’s all about disciplined thought, understanding the challenges. A great company never owes its success to one “a-ha” moment. Rather, a series of incremental, good decisions give outstanding results.

Content: Quotation | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Professor Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe discusses the transformational imperatives of leadership. Professor Alimo-Metcalfe joined with Dr John Alban-Metcalfe to undertake the largest ever investigation of leadership, and the first to involve a significant proportion of women and individuals from Black and Minority Ethnic group backgrounds, leading to the development of the Transformational Leadership Questionnaire (TLQ), a new leadership 360-degree feedback instrument, the success of which led to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Sarah Powell | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Leadership, People

This site aims to provide visitors with cutting-edge resources on leadership and value systems with a special emphasis on the consideration of multicultural, global issues. Resources at the site have been written or selected to assist leaders in all kinds of organization to develop their skills. In addition, it examines the qualities and behaviour of famous leaders throughout the centuries. Visitors are invited to take … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Mick Yates | Source: LeaderValues | Subject: Leadership

Leadership programs offer everything from white-water rafting to encounter groups. But do they really train leaders? Yes, if they take a multi-tiered approach and recognize that it takes skill and time to succeed.

Editor’s Note: this is an excellent article – a bit long, but well worth the read…

Content: Article | Author: Jay Conger | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership | Industry: Education / Training

“In reviewing the field, it’s clear to me that the business community today is more sensitive to the subject of leadership than we were 20 years ago. It is also clear that the dramatic increase in writing on the subject has not produced a corresponding increase in leaders or made existing leaders much more effective. Why? I think our basic notion of leadership is flawed … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Charles F. Kiefer | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subject: Leadership

Three simultaneous revolutions-new technologies, globalization, and the end of communism-are destroying the fixed reference points for business. As they do, would-be business leaders have to think of themselves as economic explorers. Leaders are people who know they’re at point B and need to go to point A. Their problem is to find a route from B to A and persuade the troops to follow. Explorers … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Leadership, Trends / Analysis

Forget the idea that effective executives need charisma above all. In this excerpt from Harvard Business Review, Peter Drucker explains how the best executives take responsibility for their own decisions.

Content: Article | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Leadership, Management

…it important to debunk three major myths about leadership, which block the affirmation of leadership in organizations. One is that leadership behaviour is rare; this we believe is untrue – leadership behaviour is common but often ignored because we adopt inappropriate models, which lead us to fail to recognize leadership behaviour for what it is. Second, many believe that leadership is mainly found at the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Emerald Now | Subject: Leadership

A leader truly leading the enterprise will work to grasp the big picture, use that insight to incite the workforce to high performance, forge the organization into a thinking, adaptive enterprise, and focus on the continuous transformation of the individuals involved and the organization as a whole. (GIFT model)

Content: Article | Author: Daniel D. Elash, Ph.D. | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Leadership

What does a team leader do so that employees know they are being supported? A Q&A with HBS professor and creativity expert Teresa Amabile about new research.

Content: Article | Author: Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Organizations sometimes practice an unconscious hypocrisy, preaching a people-focused leadership style while rewarding managers solely on the basis of financial and operating results. This causes managers to focus more on the bottom-line results than on the process of obtaining them. Often this leads to a number of counterproductive outcomes, such as managers’ resorting to demanding, autocratic, or punitive leadership in order to get short-term results. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

It is impossible to separate the performance and well-being of organizations from the performance and well-being of their members. To provide people with mean­ingful work and rewards, organizations need to be successful. And to be successful, organizations need high-performing individuals. The challenge is to design organizations that perform at high levels and treat people in ways that are motivating and satisfying.

Treating people in ways that … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Edward E. Lawler III | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior