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Many tools are available to help individual executives hone their skills as managers and leaders. But research by the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change suggests that few leadership teams are equipped to make complex decisions quickly and carry them out collaboratively. Fortunately, executives can learn how to “lead as a team”. This report outlines the basic steps toward leading as a team — and poses … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Robert J. Thomas | Source: Accenture | Subject: Leadership

The five A’s vs one R and a conversation with the authors of The Trusted Leader.

Content: Article | Authors: Anne Seibold Drapeau, Robert Galford | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Great book on how to coach by focusing on the good to best employees instead of the traditional approach which focuses more on problem employees. The authors are two Babson Professors who are also consultants. The book was used one of my MBA courses and it is well-written and provides many real-world cases and applications. I recommend this book highly.

Content: Book | Authors: James Hunt, Joseph Weintraub | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

The leader’s first job is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the leader must become a servant and a debtor.

Content: Quotation | Author: Max De Pree | Source: Babson Insight | Subject: Leadership

In this latest of O’Toole’s prolific body of work (Leading Change, The Executive’s Compass), he synthesizes in a neat A-Z format his 30 years of leadership coaching experience, writing, and consulting to produce a smorgasbord of succinct stories that form a handy “desktop” guide. This anthology of his beliefs on leadership will serve as sound advice for anyone in that role. Topics covered include communication, … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: James O’Toole | Subject: Leadership

We’ve all been there…you see a great opportunity, but you’re a middle manager, not the division or corporate President, so you lack the direct authority and resources to implement your ideas and affect change. How do you lead the top people and your peers to successful change? Listen to Prof. Cohen describe the keys to getting your ideas heard, gaining support and building your leadership … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Allan Cohen | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Leadership, Management

This article (part 3 in a series) discusses one of the most difficult skills any executive can practice: listening to what others think the executive needs to change.

See other articles in this series:
Part 1: Why We Shoot the Messenger
Part 2: Delivering the Message

Content: Article | Authors: Gary R. Casselman, Ph.D., Timothy C. Daughtry, Ph.D. | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management

People change their behavior when they are motivated to do so, and that happens when you speak to their feelings… You need something, often visual, that helps produce the emotions that motivate people to move more than one inch to the left or one inch to the right. Great leaders are brilliant at this. They tell the kind of stories that create pictures in your … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

Business consultant and author David Nadler draws on direct experiences with several top CEOs for this well-written book about organizational change, specifically “leadership change.” The 14 chapters fall roughly into three sections. In the first section Nadler surveys the forces that make change inevitable but so difficult for modern businesses. Then he presents several tools and techniques to treat organizational change, including planning, direction setting, … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: David A. Nadler | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

The authors–a university professor and two heads of consulting firms–divide leadership priorities into four areas: employees, organization, customers, and investors. A company head generally has to focus on one responsibility over the other three, but can’t get away with ignoring any of them for very long. They explain each of these four priorities in depth–noting, for example, that keeping employees committed and productive means “mass … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: David Ulrich, Jack Zenger, Norman Smallwood | Subject: Leadership

If you look at history, great leaders are all very self-confident people. They have extraordinary capacity to make decisions when other people crumble… Yet it never tips over into arrogance. As a matter of fact, the great, great leaders are often described with some astonishment by observers as having a certain humility and willingness to make themselves vulnerable.

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Leadership

Follow up to the management classic, Built to Last.

Content: Book | Author: Jim Collins | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Thornton uses his years of consulting and workshop experience to get to the “nitty-gritty” of leadership basics. After a brief introduction he begins a “step by step” guide to better leadership awareness. Chapter 1 deals with a sound leadership foundation, which includes mission, vision and values. In chapter 2 he introduces what he calls the “Three C’s of Leadership” which are the three things leaders … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Paul B. Thornton | Subjects: Leadership, Management

The challenge for executives is to manage the tension between an expansive purpose and the day-to-day shocks of the business environment. “The way to make sense of that dilemma is to initiate a conversation about what’s purpose and what’s just practice.”

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

The measure of leadership is not the quality of the head, but the tone of the body. The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Content: Quotation | Author: Max De Pree | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Leadership

For an organization to be truly entrepreneurial, Accenture research shows, leaders need to adopt a new role.

See a related article, “Entrepreneurship Around the Globe: Adapting to Different National Environments” at:
Content: Article | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Leadership

Heifetz (Harvard U.) offers a practical approach to leadership for those who lead as well as those who look to them for answers, drawing on research among managers, offices, and politicians in the public and private sectors. He discusses leading with and without authority, values in leadership, the roots of authority, and leaders such as Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, and Mahatma Gandhi. [Annotation copyright … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Ronald A. Heifetz | Subject: Leadership

Managers are not good at managing change. Why? Because most managers are stewards and not leaders. They tend towards security, stability and predictability.

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementLearning.com | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

To finish first, you have to work fast. Ray Evernham – NASCAR’s top crew chief and the man behind race-car champ Jeff Gordon – offers lessons from the pit on teamwork, surprise, and the pursuit of perfection.

Content: Article | Author: Chuck Salter | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Management

There is no shortage of black leaders – they are in every field, every walk of life. Our only shortage is in the perception that fails to recognize the black leaders in our companies and communities.

Content: Quotation | Source: University of Rochester | Subjects: Diversity, Leadership