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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jack Welch | Subjects: Leadership, Success / Failure

Leaders do not need to be true to themselves. Rather, leaders need to be true to the situation and what those around them want and need from them.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Leadership

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Content: Quotation | Author: Max De Pree | Subject: Leadership

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves – and by which they are willing to be judged.

Content: Quotation | Author: Frederick W. Smith | Subject: Leadership

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Content: Quotation | Author: Ray Kroc | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson.

Content: Quotation | Author: Indra Nooyi | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

I believe there are some essential questions that are useful across a variety of contexts, including, and perhaps especially, the workplace. In fact, I gave a commencement speech last year on this topic, suggesting to students from the Harvard Graduate School of Education that there are really only five essential questions in life. Although the audience was future educators, I believe these questions are equally … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: James E. Ryan | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Leadership

Most leaders understand the science of building trust. They understand that they need to think and communicate clearly about product and strategy and make good choices when they are hiring and promoting people into leadership positions. They understand that they have to show deep commitment and get things done. But in my experience, the truly great leaders also understand the art of building trust. Leaders … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Ali Rowghani | Subjects: Leadership, Trust

Questions are a great management tool.

Asking questions elicits information, of course. Asking questions creates the space for people to raise issues they are worried about that a boss, or colleagues, may not know about. Asking questions lets people tell a different story than the one you’re expecting. Most important from my perspective, asking questions means people have to make their case for the way they … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Brian Grazer | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Most leadership advice is based on anecdotal observation and basic common sense. Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Kathryn Shaw tried a different tack: data-driven analysis.

Content: Article | Authors: Kathryn Shaw, Steve Hawk | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Leadership, Management

All good advice tips people toward action, not options. You may think all you need is advice. Practice is what you need.

Content: Quotation | Author: Hiten Shah | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Human beings evolved in groups, and most of us still work in groups every day. Our affinity for groups is wired deeply into our basic biology. Indeed, humans are unique among primates in that we readily cooperate with in-group members–even if they are completely unknown to us. […] Group identification is one ingredient that can bring strangers together.

Given that group membership is such a deeply … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jay Van Bavel | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Effective leaders:

1. See what’s possible
2. Describe what’s possible
3. Pursue what’s possible

Content: Quotation | Author: Paul B. Thornton | Subject: Leadership

While personality differences between leaders are to be expected, a major shift can create difficulty in adjustment for everyone involved.

Content: Article | Author: Naphtali Hoff | Source: SmartBrief | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

What concerns me is the tendency to marginalize people who disagree with you at meetings. There’s too much intolerance for challenge. As a leader, you can say the right things — for instance, everybody should share their opinions. But people are too smart to do that, because it’s risky. So when people raise an idea that doesn’t make sense to you as a leader, rather than ask … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Gary Klein | Source: Medium | Subjects: Communication, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Teamwork

You shouldn’t be CEO if you say ‘I only work with people smarter than me’ and you do not truly mean it. That being said, and this part is often not said enough, you should be smarter than everyone else on your team in one thing. It does not matter what it is, as long as it enables you to inspire the people who commit … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Seyi Fabode | Source: Medium | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Leadership, Management

Thinking on leadership has become a sort of morality tale. There are writers who advocate authenticity, attention to employees’ well-being, telling the truth, building trust, being agreeable, and so forth. A smaller number of empirical researchers, contrarily, report evidence on the positive effects of traits and behavior such as narcissism, self-promotion, rule breaking, lying, and shrewd maneuvering on salaries, getting jobs, accelerating career advancement, and … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Leadership

It’s a great lesson for the workplace. And outside of it.

Content: Article | Author: Justin Bariso | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Leadership

Management books and commentaries often oversimplify, seldom providing useful guidance about the skills and behavior needed to get things done.

Content: Article | Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Leadership

You may indeed have gone into business in the first place because the subject of finance is relatively clean and clear; it doesn’t have the messy ambiguities of, say, psychology or literature. Such preferences don’t matter. You will end up distinguishing yourself (or not) on your ability not just to work with others, but to inspire them, draw insight from them, observe them accurately, and … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Personal Development