175 Posts found for Source: Leader to Leader

Essential steps for developing, supporting, and nurturing leaders.

Content: Article | Authors: Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Leadership

I have seen brilliant entrepreneurial strategies falter as an organization grows and matures. Obviously, you manage a $25 billion company differently than you do a $25 million company. But you change your practices, not your principles. You learn how to communicate with large numbers of employees by using videotapes, newsletters, weekly updates, frequent visits to the field. You share not only what’s going on in … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

A financial analyst once asked me if I was afraid of losing control of our organization. I told him I’ve never had control and I never wanted it. If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don’t need control. They know what needs to be done, and they do it. And the more that people will devote themselves to your cause on … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Americans expect results from their business, government, and nonprofit organizations. We also expect information about the performance of those institutions: Who’s in charge? How is money spent? And what have they accomplished? In the business world, the demands imposed by lenders and investors — and, of course, the Securities and Exchange Commission — force companies to disclose precise details of their operations — earnings, expenses, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Regina Herzlinger | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Industry Specific, Nonprofit | Industry: Government

Anita Roddick is founder and co-chair of The Body Shop International. With more than 1,700 stores in 48 countries, the company reported 1999 sales of more than $900 million (£606 million), Roddick has won numerous business, leadership, and philanthropic awards including the Order of the British Empire. She is author of Body and Soul.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Management | Industry: Retail

Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people — and allow people to place themselves — according to their strengths.

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

“Executives spend too much time drafting, wordsmithing, and redrafting vision statements, mission statements, values statements, purpose statements, aspiration statements, and so on. They spend nowhere near enough time trying to align their organizations with the values and visions already in place.”

Content: Article | Author: Jim Collins | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Joel Kotkin is senior fellow with the Pepperdine University Institute for Public Policy and the Pacific Research Institute. Years before globalism became a buzzword, business analyst Joel Kotkin was writing about trade and immigration as forces for economic and social vitality. His 1992 book, Tribes, offers an original and insightful view of business, history, and culture. His premise: that dispersed ethnic or national groups who … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Management

People change their behavior when they are motivated to do so, and that happens when you speak to their feelings… You need something, often visual, that helps produce the emotions that motivate people to move more than one inch to the left or one inch to the right. Great leaders are brilliant at this. They tell the kind of stories that create pictures in your … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

Since writing The End of Economic Man 58 years and 27 books ago, Peter F. Drucker has continued to demonstrate his gift for articulating the emerging issues of the day — and making them meaningful to the here-and-now work of managers. He recently spent several hours talking with Leader to Leader managing editor Paul Cohen about what is changing — and what is not — … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: People, Trends / Analysis

If you look at history, great leaders are all very self-confident people. They have extraordinary capacity to make decisions when other people crumble… Yet it never tips over into arrogance. As a matter of fact, the great, great leaders are often described with some astonishment by observers as having a certain humility and willingness to make themselves vulnerable.

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Leadership

For leaders, setting vision and values is not an appetizer, it’s the main course.

Content: Article | Author: Robert Knowling | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Strategy

John P. Kotter, Harvard Business School professor, award-winning author of more than a dozen books on leadership and management, was recently rated by Business Week as America’s Number One “leadership guru.” In his best-selling book, Leading Change, he demystified the change process by distilling an eight-step process for implementing successful organizational transformations: 1. Increase Urgency, 2. Build the Guiding Team, 3. Get the Vision Right, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: John P. Kotter | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Change Management, People

It is well understood that in today’s world of discontinuous change, there is no continuity without constant renewal…There are two core challenges to making innovation a deep capability in any organization. First, most companies have a very narrow idea of innovation, usually focusing just on products and services. We need to enlarge our view of innovation. Second, most companies devote much more energy to optimizing … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Gary Hamel | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Innovation, Management

The 21st century will be the century of the social sector organization. The more economy, money, and information become global, the more community will matter. And only the social sector nonprofit organization performs in the community, exploits its opportunities, mobilizes its local resources, and solves its problems. The leadership, competence, and management of the social sector nonprofit organization will thus largely determine the values, the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Nonprofit, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Randy Komisar incubates Silicon Valley start-ups and helped launch WebTV and TiVo, among other companies. He is the former CEO of LucasArts Entertainment and Crystal Dynamics, a cofounder of Claris Corporation, and former CFO of GO Corp. He is author of The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Management

This article takes a look at the differences between “single-leader unit” and “real-team” disciplines. It focuses especially on the unique challenges of virtual teams and also considers the pros and cons of collaborative technology (groupware).

Content: Article | Authors: Douglas K. Smith, Jon R. Katzenbach | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

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

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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