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All top leaders need to be generically capable leaders (or developed into becoming so), but each will have a “spike of excellence.” It’s important to play to that strength while continuing to develop the generic leadership skills or a secondary area of excellence required to be an outstanding leader.

Content: Quotation | Source: Bain & Company | Subject: Leadership

When GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt teaches up-and-coming leaders at the company’s famed management-development center, he runs through a checklist of what he calls “Things Leaders Do.” In an interview with Fast Company, Immelt reveals his own leadership checklist.

Content: Article | Author: Jeff Immelt | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership

The Encyclopedia of Leadership brings together for the first time everything that is known and truly matters about leadership as part of the human experience.

Developed by the award-winning editorial team at Berkshire Publishing Group, the Encyclopedia includes hundreds of articles, written by 400 leading scholars and experts from 17 countries, exploring leadership theories and leadership practice. Over a third of the work-some 500,000 words-is … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: George R. Goethals, Georgia J. Sorenson, James MacGregor Burns | Subject: Leadership

The competitive executive seizes and exploits opportunities. He is more interested in building on strength than in shoring up weaknesses. He devotes more time to building his own company’s position than to countering competitive moves.

Content: Quotation | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Leadership, Management

A new database on great American leaders offers surprising insights on the nature of leadership. A Q&A with Tony Mayo, executive director of the Harvard Business School Leadership Initiative.

Content: Article | Author: Sean Silverthorne | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Leadership

In a well-managed enterprise, it is understood that people who fail in a new job, especially after a promotion, may not be the ones to blame.

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

The Law of Leadership states that leadership is the exercise of power to execute responsibility. As an equation, Leadership = Power x Responsibility. Leaders with much power but little responsibility are narcissistic tyrants. Leaders with little power but much responsibility are impotent martyrs. Superior leaders have an equal balance and high degree of both qualities. The most important thing leaders can do is maximize their … [ Read more ]

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

PaeTec Communications is fiercely dedicated to two things: worker contentment and inexorable growth. The company’s relentlessly focused CEO takes personal responsibility for both.

Content: Article | Author: David Dorsey | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Leadership

In this issue of Spotlight Jim Collins speaks with editor Sarah Powell about the findings of his book Good to Great and the characteristics of ‘Level 5 Leadership’.

Content: Article | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Leadership, People

Companies that systematically and continuously put the right leaders in the right jobs outperform companies that don’t-by a wide margin. In this article, the authors argue that chief executives must recognize and act on the consequences of how they deploy their best managers.

Content: Article | Authors: Alan Bird, Dean Donovan, Marcia Blenko, Paul Rogers, Robin Buchanan | Sources: Bain & Company, European Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Management

In this article, Professor Robin Stuart-Kotze gives a basic linear progression of leadership models, focusing on those that are applicable and practical, in the process discussing his own Transformational Leadership Style Inventory (TLSI) and Momentum Radar work.

Content: Article | Author: Robin Stuart-Kotze | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subject: Leadership

The best way to become a skillful leader – whether as a coach, an executive, a politician, or whatever – is not to set out to become “perfect,” but rather to aim to be effective all of the time.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Leadership

Learning is an essential part of any company’s effort to change and innovate. But to be successful, learning must be extended to strategy and management issues and involve the direct participation of senior executives. It’s a price too many CEOs are unwilling to pay.

Content: Article | Author: Jane Linder | Source: Outlook Journal (Accenture) | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

The first thing a leader needs to understand is how the organization is feeling – is it very proud of what it is achieving? And that’s a contact issue and a “smell” issue as you “go walkabout.”

The second thing you notice when things are going right is that people take more risks. People understand that we’re in a risk business. Capitalism is about taking risks … [ Read more ]

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

What do I look for in our leadership? I look for curiosity. I look for competence. I look for humanity. And I look for commitment. To me, those things are very, very important. I like people to enjoy getting out of bed every morning and coming to work. I like them to feel that they’re committed to solving problems and contributing, and that every day … [ Read more ]

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

“Without a clear vision, an organization be-comes a self-serving bureaucracy. The top managers begin to think “the sheep are there for the benefit of the shepherd.” All the money, recognition, power, and status move up the hierarchy, away from the people closest to the customers, and leadership begins to serve the leaders and not the organization’s larger purpose and goals…A vision is compelling when it … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jesse Stoner, Ken Blanchard | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Good Leaders don’t grow on trees. All the more reason to nurture them carefully, say partners at Bain & Co.

Content: Article | Authors: Alan Bird, Dean Donovan, Marcia Blenko, Paul Rogers, Robin Buchanan, Steve Ellis | Source: World Link | Subjects: Best Practices, Leadership

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Nightly Business Report, the most watched daily business program on U.S. television, Wharton and NBR this month announced their list of the 25 most influential business leaders of the past 25 years. Andy Grove, co-founder of Intel, won the No. 1 position, but the list also included Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, John Bogle, Jeff Bezos, Jack Welch and Oprah … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Sources: Knowledge@Wharton, Nightly Business Report (NBR) | Subjects: Leadership, People

Many different factors influence the way individuals make sense of the world and translate that sense making into an orientation toward leadership. We’ve isolated two major categories of influence-era and individual factors-and a critical intervening set of events and relationships (or crucibles) that go a long way toward explaining how successful leaders extract wisdom from experience. This research note describes our preliminary conceptual model of … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Robert J. Thomas, Warren Bennis | Source: Accenture | Subject: Leadership

“our research finds that the CEOs whose companies are best weathering the recent downturn are practicing old-fashioned, pragmatic management by the numbers – what we call yellow-light leadership. This conclusion is based on an onging Booz Allen Hamilton study of about 40 Fortune 500 companies, conducted with the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California and initiated in 2001.

This finding is significant … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Bruce A. Pasternack, James O’Toole | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management