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21st Century Leadership: Got What It Takes?

By Jim Murray - What will a 21st century leader look like? In my judgement, the leader of the past was a doer. The leader of the present is a planner. And the leader of the future will be a teacher. The job of a 21st century leader will be to develop capabilities, not necessarily to plan the organization’s strategic direction. It will be to increase the organization’s capacity to be focused, agile and resilient. It will be to create, harness and leverage intellectual capital rather than to deploy other assets. This kind of leader doesn’t need to know everything there is to know (because that is a practical... ^new (Added: 20-Mar-2011 Hits: 116 )

49 Leadership Rules

By Tom Peters - Rule #3: Leadership Is Confusing As Hell You think the past five years were nuts? You ain't seen nothin' yet! It's only going to get weirder, tougher, and more turbulent. Which means that leadership will be more important than ever -- and more confusing (Added: 6-Mar-2003 Hits: 637 )

A Whack Up 'Long Side The Head Of Human Resources: The Leadership Imperative

By Brent Filson - working with human resource leaders in a variety of companies for the past two decades, I find that many of them are stumbling. Caught up in the tempests of downsizing, compliance demands, acquisitions, mergers, and reorganizations, they are engaged in activities that have little to do with their central mission. Ignoring or at least giving short shrift to the Leadership Imperative, they are too often viewed, especially by line leaders, as carrying out sideline endeavors. Many HR leaders have nobody to blame for this situation but themselves. By neglecting the Imperative, they themselves have chosen to be sideline participants. Here is a three-step action plan to get the HR function off the sidelines and into the thick of the game. ^new (Added: 12-Oct-2011 Hits: 98 )

Business Action Plan: The Leadership Model - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com

By Mark Bond - The objective of this action plan is to focus, define and reinvent the leadership model of the organization into a leadership paradigm based on a designed confluence of several leadership models. However, in order to first focus the concept of leadership around a more concrete structure, leadership must be defined: "...influencing others...toward the attainment of a goal...directing or inspiring people to attain organizational goals. Leaders...facilitate the movement of a group of people toward a common goal...Leadership is an influence process" (Harvey, 2001, para.9). With this broad concept of leadership and the focused leader, a more humanistic approach to management can be molded into the model since this method is effective at empowering people towards organization goals as well as self-fulfillment (Added: 15-Jan-2010 Hits: 249 )

Do leadership experts have it wrong?

By Tora Estep - in his piece, Stewart talks about four lessons he's learned from reading the leadership literature that render the whole concept of leadership literature problematic: Great leadership isn't teachable. (Does that mean that the great number of books and seminars about leadership may be more about boosting the ego and filling the wallet of the leadership guru than about enabling people to become great leaders?# Great leadership is a property of groups, not individuals. #In other words, great followers make great leaders. With too much emphasis on the individual at the top you lose sight of the importance of the people around the leader helping him or her to make the right decisions.# Great leadership is circumstantial. #You have to be in the right place at the right time, or else you may never become a great leader.# Great leadership can get ugly. #My immediate reaction to this is, if it's ugly, it's not great leadership. It's bad leadership. In some cases, it isn't leadership at all.) (Added: 2-Dec-2009 Hits: 334 )

EQ Leadership: EQ Toolbox Articles

By Todd Everett - An outline to help reflect on the skills and qualities of an emotionally intelligent leader. (Added: 18-Jul-2003 Hits: 627 )

Fight. Learn. L*E*A*D

By Richard Pascale - With bombs bursting in air, 4,000 soldiers do battle at the Army's National Training Center - the world's most powerful laboratory for leadership development and change. Five lessons from the front lines of learning. (Added: 25-Jan-2002 Hits: 590 )

Finding and Choosing A Therapist Who Works For You

By Robert Bacal - Finding a mental health professional, counselor, or therapist can be an intimidating process, particularly if you are already feeling off balance. This help card explains where to start to find a therapist, how to evaluate a therapist in the initial meeting and how to determine if that particular therapist is helping you. (Added: 12-Jan-2003 Hits: 30 )

Free Basic Guide to Leadership and Supervision

By managementhelp - This free guide to leadership and supervision contains an overview of the responsibilities of supervisors, explanation of core skills, delegation, meeting management, designing organizational structure and more. (Added: 3-Apr-2006 Hits: 1053 )

Guidelines for Leaders to Consider When Making Decisions

By NA - Excellent practical suggestions to guide leaders in their decision making. (Added: 5-Aug-2003 Hits: 485 )

How to be a Real Leader

By Polly LaBarre - Kevin Cashman advises leaders from companies such as American Express, Pillsbury, and Rollerblade. His message: "To be more effective with others, we first need to become more effective with ourselves." (Added: 5-Aug-2001 Hits: 357 )

How US Airways Dealt with a Hostile Work Environment | Business Ethics

By na - Columnist Gael O’Brien recently encountered a two-hour flight delay stemming from an argument between two stewardesses on a US Airways flight. While it was a major inconvenience for her and other passengers, she writes, the airline’s handling of the situation demonstrated a “formula for leadership that builds trust and reputation, a formula we don’t see often enough.” ^new (Added: 19-Oct-2011 Hits: 81 )

Leaders And Followers

By Francisco Magalhaes - It is only natural that not everyone becomes a leader; however, those who follow will no longer accept old fashioned leaders, full of authoritative ideas and who impose new management techniques on others. They want leaders with well- rooted human values and who will respect talents and contributions given by others. They want to feel enthusiastic in all their actions. (Added: 20-Apr-2001 Hits: 373 )

Leadership - Off the Wall

By Dan McCarthy - Here's a thought-provoking guest post from Paul Thornton, a regular guest writer for Great Leadership. As a leader, what should the sign on your wall or desk say? ^new (Added: 28-Nov-2010 Hits: 167 )

Make 2011 Your Year for Creating Waves

By Mary Rosenbaum - The steps it takes to start a successful Wave and send it out to the rest of the stadium are similar to the way leaders operate in the real world. True leadership is about inspiring others to take the lead, taking the idea wherever it needs to go to move it forward. To lead or start a movement or a Wave you have to be willing to take a stand, believe in what you are doing, put some passion behind your idea, and let others take over when the time is right. Dov Seidman, in his book How, describes the anatomy of a Wave and how it relates to true leadership. Here are some actions you can take to enable you to lead from wherever you are in the room or the stadium. ^new (Added: 4-Jan-2011 Hits: 134 )

Managing People Politics - BOOK EXCERPT I LEADERSHIP - CIO Magazine Jun 15,2002

By NA - ONE OF THE DISTINGUISHING qualities of successful people who lead in any field is the emphasis they place on personal relationships. This is Advertisers certainly true for those in elective office, for whom personal relationships are as vital as air is to breathing. The critical resource is access, and so the greatest care is given to creating and nurturing networks of people whom they can call on, work with and engage in addressing the issue at hand. (Added: 25-Jun-2002 Hits: 446 )

Provocation 101

By Paul Judge - Larry Weber is trying to provoke you. He wants to take your tired cliche-ridden definition of leadership and turn it upside down. Here's a look at the leader of today: the provocateur. (Added: 6-Mar-2003 Hits: 328 )

Research finds leadership skills inadequate to meet current and future demand | The Practice of Leadership

By George Ambler - New research from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) which surveyed 2,200 leaders from 15 organizations, in three countries between 2006 and 2008 produced some interesting findings. (Added: 16-Dec-2009 Hits: 165 )

Seeking Initiative and Innovation? Reward Failure!

By Jim McCormick - Read the case study about one of the world's largest consumer product companies in order to learn some startling facts about corporate risk taking, innovation and rewards. (Added: 10-Feb-2004 Hits: 422 )

Self-Deception and Challenges for Leaders

By na - Recent crises have led me to wonder what some leaders see when they look in the mirror. Sometimes a distorted reflection can be the result of leaders isolating themselves, choosing to be surrounded by people who gain the most by taking viewpoints the leaders most want to hear. In a political arena that could help explain why Hosni Mubarak so badly misread his leadership crisis. However, in the aftermath of some recent corporate crises, I think self deception, no matter how a leader might arrive there, reflects an image that allows leaders to disengage and disconnect from their actual impact on others. Aside from the damage it does to those affected, it creates an understandable gap in trust, which is the very thing leaders want to re-build after a crisis. ^new (Added: 19-Oct-2011 Hits: 94 )