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When Margaret J. Wheatley’s Leadership and the New Science was initially published in 1992, it outlined an unquestionably unique but extremely challenging view of change, leadership, and the structure of groups. Many readers immediately embraced its cutting-edge perspective, but others just could not understand how the complicated scientific tenets it described could be used to reshape institutions. Now Wheatley, an organizational specialist who has since … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Margaret J. Wheatley | Subject: Leadership

The most important things a leader can bring to a changing organization are passion, conviction, and confidence in others. Too often executives announce a plan, launch a task force, and then simply hope that people find the answers — instead of offering a dream, stretching their horizons, and encouraging people to do the same. That is why we say, “leaders go first.”

However, given that passion, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

In order to evaluate a group or an individual, you need to know what are the key elements of that person’s job or responsibility. We have compressed the leadership literature into a list, in a checklist format. This list describes what leaders do in an organizational context. We understand fully that a critical component of leadership is successful leadership of one’s self, although this checklist … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Herb Rubenstein | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Leadership

Without a doubt, given the unrealistic-and sometimes conflicting-demands of boards of directors, employees, leadership gurus, recruiters, consultants, and the business press, there will forever be a leadership shortage, and it will get worse each year. And each year that passes without increasing rates of profit and share price, higher employee-satisfaction ratings, and all-around omniscience, the leader shortage will most certainly increase. Clearly, the shortage is … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Leadership

The key to great leadership is to recognize the particular motivations within yourself and develop the skills that are compatible with them. It is equally important to acknowledge that there are skills you are not likely to master.

Content: Quotation | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

Language is messy by nature, which is why we must be careful in how we use it. As leaders, after all, we have little else to work with. We typically don’t use hammers and saws, heavy equipment, or even computers to do our real work. The essence of leadership — what we do with 98 percent of our time — is communication. To master any … [ Read more ]

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

“We don’t have the right people” is an excuse that suits all times and all circumstances; it is a refuge for scoundrels. Moreover, it obscures leaders’ fundamental task of helping people do more together than they could individually.

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

The word “leader” stands for someone who leads, enables, articulates, decides, encourages, and rewards. Although these are not the only traits exhibited by successful leaders, they do epitomize those characteristics shared by nearly all those who successfully influence others. Besides applying the general guidelines noted above, those seeking to become effective leaders should ask themselves critical questions as part of an on-going effort to improve … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: David F. Wilson | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Leadership

“Whether in a corporation, a Scout troop, a public agency, or an entire nation, constituents seek four things: meaning or direction, trust in and from the leader, a sense of hope and optimism, and results. To serve these constituent needs — and ultimately to unleash an organization’s intellectual capital — leaders can foster four supporting conditions, which in turn can create four respective outcomes.”

Content: Article | Author: Warren Bennis | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Leadership

John P. Kotter offers up eight critical stages involved in the change process as well as four mistakes that are the source of most failures and three key tasks for change leaders.

Content: Article | Author: John P. Kotter | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

The point is not just that leaders don’t need charisma; it’s that if they have it, it’s a problem they need to address and overcome. There are, of course, leaders who manage this, which doesn’t mean they must lose it, but they need to understand its liabilities. Chief among these is that charisma enables you to convince people to do the wrong things, hence to … [ Read more ]

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

Learning to take the heat and receive people’s anger in a way that does not undermine your initiative is one of the toughest tasks of leadership. In this sense, exercising leadership might be understood as disappointing people at a rate they can absorb.

Content: Quotation | Source: TrendScope | Subject: Leadership

Appealing to employees’ emotions, as well as their minds, is the key to managing change.

Content: Article | Authors: Dan Cohen, John P. Kotter | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

Learn about legendary basketball coach John Wooden’s pyramid of success at this site.

Content: Online Resource | Author: John Wooden | Subjects: Career, Leadership

It has become clear that leaders of leaders must, for themselves, as individuals, create a platform upon which they build their own identity, their own operating principles and their own set of beliefs and rules to guide their lives.

Content: Article | Author: Herb Rubenstein | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

Doris Kearns Goodwin takes a look at the leadership traits of U.S. presidents Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Franklin Roosevelt, and offers lessons to be drawn from them.

Content: Article | Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Leadership

Your first ninety days in a new position are fraught with peril-and loaded with opportunity. HBS professor Michael Watkins explains how to get a running start. A Q&A and book excerpt.

Editor’s Note: I found the STARS framework (for startup, turnaround, realignment, and sustaining success) to be simple but useful…

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

Here are 8 things you can do to motivate your teams…

Content: Article | Author: Cheryl Cran | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management

The way to truly succeed is by supporting-not stepping on-those around you.

Content: Article | Authors: James M. Citrin, Richard A. Smith | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Career, Leadership

Business people exercise leadership in the community as well as the commercial world, yet we know little about the magnitude, form, and significance of their engagement in this other leadership arena. In many ways it has been the invisible side of leadership. We know that community involvement is widespread: a 1993 Conference Board survey of 454 companies revealed that over 90 percent have formal volunteer … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: James E. Austin | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Best Practices, Leadership