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11 Ways to Influence Without Authority | OutsideIn View

By na - We often find ourselves in a sort of practitioner leader role, where we have no real authority over our cross-functional team, yet we HAVE to lead the team in order to reach a set of shared company goals. So, how do we do this? There are all kinds of academic and leadership theories that will help you develop the %u201Cright skills%u201D and bring about the change you desire. However, in reality, you really just need to dive in and participate. Getting started is hard, doing it well is harder. But, there are some tips that may help you while you learn: ^new (Added: 4-Sep-2011 Hits: 132 )

Formal vs. Informal Leaders

By Kathryn Vercillo - Do you consider yourself to be a leader? Even if you aren’t officially designated as the leader of a group, it may turn out that you are considered to be a leader by the people you are in a group with. If you tend to find yourself in this position then you might want to explore the difference between being a formal leader vs. being an informal leader. You may also be interested in this information if you operate any sort of small business or team. That’s because knowing who your informal leaders are is just as important as knowing who you’ve assigned to a leadership role. (Added: 3-Feb-2010 Hits: 1202 )

Grassroots Leadership - Ford Motor Company

By Keith Hammonds - "We want people at all levels who will take risks and who can make decisions." (Added: 20-Apr-2001 Hits: 979 )

Informal Leadership Support: An Often Overlooked Competitive Advantage Physician Executive - Find Articles

By Lawrence H. Peters - INFLUENCE LEADERS are leaders within an organization who don't have formal power or authority but lead by influencing their peers and others around them. Here's a discussion that fits for everyone, but oriented towards the health care sector. (Added: 5-Mar-2007 Hits: 901 )

Informal Leadership Support: An Often Overlooked Competitive Advantage. - Free Online Library

By na - RENDS IN THE HEALTH care environment--consumerism, net think, and complementary medicine, for example--produce ongoing pressure for change. Competitors, confronted with these pervasive conditions, often apply similar versions of common health care wisdom to address these challenges. This similarity in strategies is not surprising, given that health care leaders have been trained in many of the same programs, listened to the same consultants, read the same journals, gone to the same association meetings, and frequently spent their professional lives in the same industry. While moving with the herd offers short-term reassurance , it provides little to no long-term competitive advantage. [1] Alternatively, looking for successful strategies proven in industries outside of health care and adapting them to your organization's needs provides a greater possibility of long-term advantage. [1] The use of informal influence leaders represents one such strategy. (Added: 3-Feb-2010 Hits: 252 )

Leadership Development - Results focused Leadership thinking and practice from around the Globe

By Rebecca Barnett - You don’t have to be a CEO, CFO or any other type of alphabet soup kind of leader to create a culture of character in your company. You can change your department and create the kind of company you are proud to lead. You can make a difference. Not by rigidly following the rules or by handing down moral authority from on high like your own home grown version of the ten commandants. Not by forcing your values onto the people you lead. But by returning to the fundamentals of leadership that we learned long ago from our parents, churches and schools. Many business leaders lost their way in the blinding white... ^new (Added: 20-Mar-2011 Hits: 182 )

Leading Equals - Motivating Without Authority

By na - Leadership is a complex subject. There are visionary leaders, empowering leaders, charismatic leaders, and values-based leaders. For each of these styles, there are situations where that style is and is not effective. However, the one thing that traditional leaders can usually rely on, regardless of their style or situation, is legitimate power. When things get tough, a traditional leader has the status and position to demand how work is done. But when you're in charge of a team of your peers, your level of authority is often nonexistent. You might have as little status as the person to whom the work has been given – but is that enough to lead what is essentially a horizontal collaboration? To lead a multifunctional peer group, you must have all the characteristics of great leaders – and then some. Here are the key skills you'll need to succeed. ^new (Added: 18-Sep-2011 Hits: 121 )

Leading When You Don't Have Formal Authority

By Steven Demaio - Here's three great principles you should add to your work ethic that will get you noticed as a 'natural leader' in your work environment. Take a few minutes to study them and learn how valuable these principles can be to your career and your corporation. (Added: 12-Feb-2010 Hits: 706 )

Leading Without Authority: An Examination of the Impact of Transformational Leadership Cooperative Extension Work Groups and Teams

By William Brown - Empirical research study looking at leading without formal authority, and transformational leadership approaches. (Added: 5-Mar-2007 Hits: 1291 )

Trickle-Up Leadership

By Bill Breen - "If people are too intimidated or too reluctant to help their leaders lead, their leaders will fail," says Michael Useem, the author of a new book about how you can take control -- even when you're not in command. (Added: 6-Mar-2003 Hits: 875 )

Understand and use your informal leadership role

By techrepublic - Looking at how people in informal or non-authoritative roles (without formal power) can lead, and should lead within an IT environment, but applicable everywhere. (Added: 5-Mar-2007 Hits: 1462 )