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Cultivating Total Leadership with Authenticity, Integrity and Creativity

As scandals erode confidence in corporate executives and a sluggish world economy depresses revenues and profits, it is clear that the world of business faces major challenges and a new environment. At such a time, a new approach to leadership is critical, according to Stewart D. Friedman, a management professor at Wharton and former director of Ford Motor Company’s Leadership Development Center. This approach, which … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Stewart D. Friedman | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Leadership

How Leaders Can Avoid the Success Trap

This article examines problems many managers run into as they progress throughout their careers. The authors argue most of the problems are related to four fundamental dimensions of leadership (directional, Interpersonal, Personal and Implementational) and two primary skills (content and process). Read on for more…

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

Geeks and Geezers: How Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders

Successful leaders young and old share numerous qualities, say Bennis and Thomas. The authors, who bring considerable experience to the table (Bennis has written over 30 books on leadership and Thomas is a senior fellow with Accenture’s Institute for Strategic Change), interviewed more than 40 leaders who they deem either “geeks” (aged 21-34) or “geezers” (aged 70-82) to evaluate the effect of era on values … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Robert J. Thomas, Warren G. Bennis | Subject: Leadership

Leading Resonant Teams

Leader to Leader talks to Daniel Goleman about resonant and dissonant leadership and about the 6 leadership styles (visionary, coaching, affiliative, democratic, pacesetter, commanding)

Content: Article | Author: Daniel Goleman | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, People

The Leadership Balancing Act

This article examines several Leadership Education Models in light of information age organizations and change leadership needs.

Content: Article | Author: Robert F. Pearse | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

How Tough Times Shape Good Leaders

Adversity brings out the best in real leaders, say Warren G. Bennis, an HBS professor, and Robert J. Thomas. In this e-mail interview and excerpt from their new book, Geeks and Geezers: How Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders, they explain how that works.

Content: Article | Authors: Robert J. Thomas, Warren G. Bennis | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Leadership

Leading with an Open Heart

This article, by the authors of a new book on leadership, discusses adaptive change and leadership.

Editor’s Note: I thought the article was very average, but you might find the latter part more interesting, particularly the sidebar, Five Challenges in Leading Adaptive Change.

Content: Article | Authors: Marty Linsky, Ronald A. Heifetz | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Leadership

Learning Disabilities and Leadership

In organizations today we need to be able to learn together from collective experience. And, insofar as knowledge today is in constant flux, it is equally important for us to be able to (un-learn) prior beliefs that have become barriers to perceiving things fresh.

Editor’s Note: article offers an interesting (mostly common sense) list of organizational learning disabilities.

Content: Article | Author: Charles Albano | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

The Best Business Books of the Millennium

strategy+business asked twelve opinionated, acclaimed strategists, scholars, and writers to identify and assess the most important business books in strategy, management, and various other categories.

Editor’s Note: A few of these pieces offer more than just listings of recommended books. In particular, I recommend you read:

Strategy (by David K. Hurst)
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Content: Article | Author: Bruce A. Pasternack | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Army Leadership: Be, Know, Do (Field Manual 22-100)

This link is for a free online copy of this useful book. A hard copy can be ordered from (800) 553-6847 (order no. FM22-100-ING; $56 + shipping and handling)

Content: Book | Source: Department of the Army | Subject: Leadership

Carry a Big Basket

Frances Hesselbein (editor-in-chief of Leader to Leader) discusses a piece of advice she received years ago, “You have to carry a big basket to bring something home.” In particular, she mentions four leadership imperatives — innovation, inclusion, opportunity and equal access, and values-based management. Along with these, she reminds us that mission focus, the leadership essential, guides us in how we use what we … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Frances Hesselbein | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

On May 10, 1996, five mountaineers from two teams perished while climbing Mount Everest. Is there anything business leaders can learn from the tragedy? HBS professor Michael A. Roberto used the tools of management to find out. Plus: Q&A with Michael Roberto

Content: Article | Author: Michael A. Roberto | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Leadership, Management

A View from the Flip Side

Front-line level employees with any company tend to be in a very good position to observe the good behaviors and the not-so-good behaviors of their leaders. Consider this to be a view from the flip side!

Content: Article | Author: Lori Richmond | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management

William Penn

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Leadership, Power / Authority