Bob Briner

Tell what you have done, not what you think of yourself.

George S. Patton

Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their ingenuity.

Lawrence Bossidy

Show me a great company and I’ll show you one that has radically changed itself and is looking forward to the opportunity of doing so again.

The 48 Laws of Power

“Learning the game of power requires a certain way of looking at the world, a shifting of perspective,” writes Robert Greene. Mastery of one’s emotions and the arts of deception and indirection are, he goes on to assert, essential. The 48 laws outlined in this book “have a simple premise: certain actions always increase one’s power … while others decrease it and even ruin us.”

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Four Power Plays

Robert Greene’s controversial book, “The 48 Laws of Power,” lays out a code of conduct that appears diametrically opposed to Fast Company’s principles and precepts for the new economy. Here, we pit Greene’s laws against Fast Company models and mentors. Whose power schemes make sense to you?

The Death of Competition : Leadership and Strategy in the Age of Business Ecosystems

Total system leadership, according to business strategy consultant James F. Moore, has replaced mere product superiority and even complete industry dominance as today’s corporate brass ring. In The Death of Competition: Leadership & Strategy In the Age of Business Ecosystems, he uses “biological ecology” as a metaphor for the new type of cooperative/competitive relationships that he believes lead to that brass ring — while guiding … [ Read more ]

Baldridge Plus

This site is focused around the ideas involved with the world-famous Baldridge Award. You’ll find lots of useful information that extends the concepts of Baldridge to your organization in the following areas: Leadership, Strategic Planning, Customers & Markets, Information & Analysis, Human Resources, Process Management, and Business Results. You’ll also quite naturally find information useful for writing a Baldridge application, winning company case … [ Read more ]

Leading Change

Harvard Business School professor Kotter (A Force for Change) breaks from the mold of M.B.A. jargon-filled texts to produce a truly accessible, clear and visionary guide to the business world’s buzzword for the late ’90s – change. In this excellent business manual, Kotter emphasizes a comprehensive eight-step framework that can be followed by executives at all levels. Kotter advises those who would implement change to … [ Read more ]

Charles de Gaulle

Nothing more enhances authority than silence.

Wharton Leadership Digest

Monthly digest from Wharton’s Center for Leadership & Change Management.

Natural Leader

Rayona Sharpnack is a teacher and a mentor to some of the most powerful women in some of the most important companies around. Her message: Don’t worry so much about what you need to know. Instead, figure out who you need to be.

Are You Marked for Greatness?

Internet Capital Group has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in companies that are looking to make their mark in e-commerce. John Hamm evaluates and advises the entrepreneurs who run those companies. Here are the character traits that he looks for. Do you have what it takes?

LC21.Com – Leadership Communications for the 21st Century

This site, created by John Baldoni, is designed to help managers create, plan, manage, recognize, and lead more effectively by providing tips and pointers you can implement immediately to improve your leadership skills. Categories found on the site include: Practice, Thoughts, Speeches, Humor, Quotes, Commentaries, Services and Hot Links.

George M.C. Fisher

Leadership is about taking an organization to a place it would not have otherwise gone without you, in a value-adding, measurable way.

Warren Bennis

The problem facing almost all leaders in the future will be how to develop their organizations’ social architecture so that it actually generates intellectual capital.