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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: 645 )

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: 109 )

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: 257 )

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: 344 )