1138 Posts Found

Uncertainty poses a defining test for any leader. So some leaders take cues from Marines and fighter pilots who have a unique approach to disorienting situations.

Content: Article | Author: Christopher Hoenig | Source: CIO Magazine | Subjects: Leadership, Management

The letter “e” has emerged as the New Economy’s prefix of choice. But while the Internet era certainly makes new demands on leaders, e-leadership is not the answer.

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

Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick, convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood. Real leaders don’t need clutter. People must have the self-confidence to be clear, precise, to be sure that every person in their organization understands what the business is trying to achieve. But it’s not easy. You can’t believe how hard it is for … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management

In our society, we revere those who are the best at what they do. Chants of “We’re #1” are heard frequently. You will never hear, “We’re #2,” or “We’re not great, but we’re better than we were last year.” If we want to be the BEST at whatever we do, we’ve got to break it down into its individual components:
“B” is for Balance
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Content: Article | Author: Jim Stovall | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management

A one-page summary of research by the American Management Association of the importance and competence of various management skills.

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Content: Online Resource | Source: American Management Association (AMA) | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Personal effectiveness is a matter of style and substance. It’s also a matter of personal values, character, humanness and confidence in the creativity, initiative and capabilities of others. Above all it’s a matter of ‘engaging’ other human beings. Here are ten keys for effectiveness and success.

Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Leadership

Content: Book | Author: Robert E. Staub II | Subject: Leadership

Ever wonder why people have difficulty with commitment – what’s wrong with this picture?

Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Strategy

When governance has the texture of service it calls for a like response from those governed.

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Marcus Buckingham teaches CEOs how to get the most out of their people and their organizations. His first lesson: Forget everything you think you know about being a leader.

Content: Article | Author: Polly LaBarre | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

A general must see alone and know alone, meaning that he must see what others do not see and know what others do not know. Seeing what others do not see is called brilliance, knowing what others do not know is called genius. Brilliant geniuses win first, meaning that they defend in such a way as to be unassailable and attack in such a way … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Strategy

The Army’s motto – “Be All That You Can Be” is both simple and powerful. Leaders help people achieve that goal. In essence, leaders do three things: they challenge people; they build people’s confidence; and they coach people.

Content: Article | Author: Paul B. Thornton | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Leadership

The most important five contributions you can make to unleash ownership and creative talent – from ‘Soaring WithThe Phoenix’ by James Belasco and Jerre Stead.

Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Leadership

Companies such as Pan Am provide classic case examples of failure. From examining such cases, current literature has identified four notable areas of failure within organizations. In addition, the authors carried out a survey on front-line supervisors and managers asking what factors they thought contributed to organizational failure. Six of the top causes of failure are presented.

Content: Article | Authors: Clinton O. Longenecker, Jack L. Simonetti, Thomas W. Sharkey | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Leadership, Management

While change management depends on leadership to be enacted, to date there has been little integration of these two bodies of literature. The key role leaders play in the change process has been noted by change theorists, yet there is no conclusive research that focuses on this relationship between leadership and change. Recent theoretical research has attempted to integrate change as a contextual variable influencing … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Kathleen Watson, Rajnandini Pillai, Regina Eisenbach | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

Is there anything you can do to turn your managers into leaders? One strategy might be to seek guidance from those being led. This article offers a survey to do just that.

Content: Article | Author: T. M. Georges | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management

To understand the elusive concept of leadership we must study interactions between people and situations, since leadership, like the equally elusive rainbow, is a result of interaction. In the case of a rainbow it is between sunlight and rain, in the case of leadership it is interaction between people, or between people and situations.

Content: Article | Author: Gerry Randell | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Leadership

Though the title and some of the examples focus on the UK, this short article is really an identification of organizational trends and the associated leadership models needed to deal with them.

Content: Article | Author: Hay McBer | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Leadership is an army you have to enlist in. You can’t get drafted into leadership. You can get drafted into management.

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

What I must do to get my garden back in shape and to make it world class, is exactly what every leader must do: seed, feed, and weed.

Content: Article | Author: Eileen McDargh | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management