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Like the King, King David knew how to strum a person like an instrument.

Content: Article | Author: Harriet Rubin | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership

Strong leaders connect and energize people. They work tirelessly to ensure that no ones loses sight of what it’s all about.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subject: Leadership

Discipline means having the vision to see the long term picture and keep things in balance. Regret can cost hundreds of hours, discipline costs minutes. An ounce of bite-my-tongue can outweigh a ton of I am-so-sorries.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subject: Leadership

I make an important distinction between CEOs who are effective teachers and CEOs who are effective leaders of the learning processes of their organizations. A teacher imparts a point of view, a perspective, a vision, a set of guidelines – it’s communication from the expert to the novice. Meanwhile a CEO who leads the learning process of others, creates a learning culture, cultivates learning processes … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Leadership, Learning

Harvard’s Ronald Heifetz offers a short course on the future of leadership.

Content: Article | Author: William C. Taylor | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, People

Strategies for managing your intangible leadership capital.

Content: Article | Author: Christopher Hoenig | Source: CIO Magazine | Subject: Leadership

Take the courageous approach to leadership by building team commitment and ownership. Our “Energy Index” Assessment is a great place to start.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subject: Leadership

If you’re a senior executive or a strategic planner, then articulating a noble purpose may seem like a powerful way to energize the people in your organization to break away from your pack of competitors. And it may seem like a way to attract a more committed, more passionate, and more capable group of employees-people, like teachers, actors, artists, and nurses, who dedicate themselves to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Art Kleiner, George Roth, Nina Kruschwitz | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Leadership, Social Responsibility (ESG)

I don’t think people ever set out to fail. They’re new, they’re excited, they see themselves as successful, and those of us making the hiring decision also see them as successful. Then something happens. The potential goes unrealized, or the eagerness dissipates. I always ask myself, Was there something that I could have done to make this person successful? Was it a bad fit that … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Management

As today’s organizations become more and more lean, people in business are gaining a greater appreciation for the differences between a manager’s style of thinking and a leader’s style of thinking. If you’re curious about how much you think like a leader versus thinking like a manager, answer these fifteen True or False questions.

Content: Article | Author: A. J. Schuler | Source: ManagerWise | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

Do your employees see you as a manager or a leader? Do you really want to know? The Leadership Report Card gives you the answer — if you’re brave enough to hear it.

Content: Article | Author: Thomas M. Georges | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Leadership, Management

James Champy discusses the importance of ambition to leadership. Along the way, he introduces the three-part arc of ambition, three archetypes of achievement and seven ways to elevate ambition.

Content: Article | Author: James A. Champy | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Leadership

To build commitment, managers must communicate with employees; assess their capacity to engage in various initiatives; give honest feedback; develop their strengths; identify their ‘blind-spots’; make decisions; and most of all, value each person’s unique style and capabilities.

Content: Quotation | Source: Insights Global | Subjects: Leadership, Management

If you are not prepared to exhibit a constant level of energy, those around you will respond in kind.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Personality / Behavior

“Office politics” is a fact of life for anyone who works in a formal organization such as a commercial company. Power is an important concept but it is hard to define and to measure.

Content: Article | Author: Kai-Lit Phua | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Beyond a healthy balance sheet, the softest of assets — personality — carries the day. That and other sentiments from Southwest Airlines chief Herb Kelleher.

Content: Article | Author: Herb Kelleher | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Most high performing organizations use a wide variety of teams. Discover the Leading Teams approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization’s pathway to success.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subject: Leadership

“Personal leadership is one of the most studied topics in American life. Indeed, I have devoted a big chunk of my professional life to better understanding its workings. Far less studied — and perhaps more important — is group leadership. The disparity of interest in those two realms of leadership is logical, given the strong individualist bent of American culture. But the more I look … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Warren Bennis | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

The behavior we get, in those who look to us for leadership, is often shaped by the picture we have of them. They become what we expect.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subject: Leadership

Frances Hesselbein was asked by a group of Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Fellows to address “Barriers to Leadership”. The request forced her to consciously distill what she had learned from experience but not yet articulated about barriers to leadership. From this introspection emerged two types of barriers: one personal and self-imposed, the other institutional, structural, or cultural.

Content: Article | Author: Frances Hesselbein | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Leadership