1142 Posts Found

You do not lead by hitting people over the head-that’s assault, not leadership.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Leadership

Let us look further at the essentials of leadership. Of the greatest importance is the ability to grasp a total situation… Out of a welter of facts, experience, desires, aims, the leader must find the unifying thread. He must see the whole, not a mere kaleidoscope of pieces. He must see the relation between all the different factors in a situation.

Content: Quotation | Author: Mary Parker Follett | Source: Freedom and Coordination | Subject: Leadership

Leadership… is about coping with change.

Content: Quotation | Source: Leading Change | Subject: Leadership

Moral leadership is not mere preaching, or the uttering of pieties, or the insistence on social conformity. Moral leadership emerges from, and always returns to, the fundamental wants and needs, aspirations, and values of the followers.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Leadership

There is no limit to what can be accomplished when no one cares who gets the credit.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Gardner, who teaches at the Stanford business school, has served seven presidents. His book on leadership, the fruit of five years of research, is less a how-to than a philosophical consideration of the subject. Its heartening message for non-CEOs is that leadership is not a mysterious quality born in the few; it springs from our shared values. In other words, we’ve all got little leaders … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: John W. Gardner | Subject: Leadership

Content: Book | Authors: Nancy K. Austin, Tom Peters | Subjects: Leadership, Management

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

Content: Quotation | Subject: Leadership

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

Content: Quotation | Source: Management Methods of Jesus | Subject: Leadership

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.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

“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.”

The … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Joost Elffers, Robert Greene | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

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?

Content: Article | Authors: Anni Layne Rodgers, Robert Greene | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Leadership

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 ]

Content: Book | Author: James F. Moore | Subjects: Leadership, Strategy

Content: Book | Author: Michael Useem | Subject: Leadership

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 ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: baldridgeplus.com | Subjects: Leadership, Management

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 ]

Content: Book | Author: John P. Kotter | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

Content: Book | Author: John P. Kotter | Subject: Leadership

Nothing more enhances authority than silence.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Leadership, Power / Authority

Content: Book | Author: Warren G. Bennis | Subject: Leadership

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

Content: Online Resource | Source: Wharton | Subject: Leadership