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Assembling A Leadership Team
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Best Principles Before Best Practices
By Ray Blunt
- In an effort stop re-inventing the wheel, many leaders look to other organizations to learn how they are developing their own leaders. Learn how this practice of emulating others' best practices can lead to unexpected and unwanted results.
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(Added: 6-Feb-2007 Hits: 256
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Leaders Who Lead Leaders
By Kenneth A. Tucker
- The manner in which senior leaders lead the leaders who report to them has a tremendous impact on organizational effectiveness and innovation. All too often, senior leaders punish their direct reports for making mistakes or try to control their areas of responsibility.
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(Added: 6-Feb-2007 Hits: 215
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Defining Attributes Of Excellent Leaders
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20/20 Visionary
By Bill Breen
- As a leader, what can you do to find the clarity your followers require? Marcus Buckingham has identified three approaches that will help.
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(Added: 16-Feb-2007 Hits: 241
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Ethical Leadership
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Business And Leadership Ethics
By n a
- According to Kenneth Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale, authors of The Power of Business Ethics Management, there are three questions you should ask yourself whenever you are faced with an ethical dilemma. Find out what the questions are and read the scenario described here to help develop your personal leadership ethics.
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(Added: 2-Feb-2007 Hits: 224
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Leadership Assessments and Quizzes
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Leadership Motivation Assessment
By Mind Tools
- Do you really want to lead? This short self-assessment available online can help you clarify your thinking about whether your motivation to be a leader is strong or weak.
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(Added: 19-Feb-2007 Hits: 454
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Leadership Quiz
By Mindtools
- A food for thought non-scientific quiz to help you reflect upon your leadership ability. Here's what they say: "Have you got what it takes to get to the top? Do you have the management skills employers are looking for? Or do your talents lie in being a team player rather than a leader? Take our quiz to find out."
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(Added: 5-Mar-2007 Hits: 377
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How Do You Influence Others Assessment
By Matt M. Starcevich
- Influencing others may be one of the core leadership skills that makes or breaks a leader. Here's a quick self-assessment to help you look at how you influence others.
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(Added: 5-Mar-2007 Hits: 401
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10 Ways to Reduce the Stress of Being Leader
By David Weiman
- Can you say if you are stressed out as a leader? Read this article to help you determine if you are, as a leader stressed out. Then see how you can reduce the stress of being a leader.
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(Added: 12-Mar-2007 Hits: 262
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Leadership Assessment Instrument | NRCS Social Sciences Team
By NRCS
- The purpose of this Leadership Self-Assessment is to provide a leadership profile based on the competencies necessary for strong, superior leadership. The data that you provide will enable you to construct a profile, complete with areas of strength and areas for future development. A more researched instrument developed in cooperation with Warren Bennis.
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(Added: 20-Mar-2007 Hits: 354
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21st Century Leadership Quizz
By na
- Today’s managers face rapidly changing conditions--flatter organizations, virtual teams, doing more with less, temporary structures, employees with different values and life-work style preferences. How effective these managers manage spells the difference between the profitable and the also ran organizations. Are you or your managers making the adjustment and transition to this new role, these new demands or, are you stuck in the past?
Although not exhaustive, this quiz tests eleven important skills for contemporary managers by assessing the degree to which you practice these skills. The more honest you are in this self evaluation the more valuable the results for your growth and development or, the growth and development of the managers in your organization.
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(Added: 20-Mar-2007 Hits: 513
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Leadership Role Models Legends
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General Douglas MacArthur's Principles of Leadership
By Larry R. Donnithorne
- Douglas MacArthur has been described as a brilliant strategist, a farsighted administrator, and flamboyant to his fingertips. Here are his principles of leadership summarized. Considered a good example of the transformational leader.
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(Added: 28-Feb-2007 Hits: 229
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Leadership Self-Development
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Congratulations, You're Promoted (Now What?)
By Eric Matson
- The transition from team player to the leader can make -- or break -- your career. Here's Fast Company's six-point leadership guide.
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(Added: 6-Mar-2003 Hits: 223
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25 Rules for Leaders
By n a
- Here are 25 quotations from business leaders that will serve you well in your quest for self-development as an effective leader. "Prevent Erosion of Human Assets" is one of the rules. The other twenty four are also worth reading and studying.
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(Added: 16-Feb-2007 Hits: 414
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Blowing Your Own Leadership Horn
By Brent Filson
- There is an art to self-promotion. Use these tips for getting the kind of attention that will win you accolades, rather than allow people tune you out regularly.
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(Added: 20-Feb-2007 Hits: 218
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7 Steps to create a Culture of Character
By Rebecca Barnett
- Leaders and leaders-to-be can benefit from this article. Learn how you can create a culture of character in your organization. It's a fundamental lesson that company character does matter.
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(Added: 21-Feb-2007 Hits: 253
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20 Ways To Become A Leader
By Ellen Ostrow
- This article is aimed at women lawyers. As well as providing women with some tips for becoming leaders, this article can help with changing current ideas about leadership ideals.
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(Added: 12-Mar-2007 Hits: 402
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Leadership Styles
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Leadership Styles - Detailed Overview
By Richard W. Scholl, , U. of Rhode Island
- An excellent summary of the various dimensions that are often used to discuss leadership styles. Includes distinction between task leaders and socio-emotive leaders, autocratic versus participatory, and transformational versus transactional.
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(Added: 5-Mar-2007 Hits: 480
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Leadership styles - Using the right one for your situation
By na
- If you are looking for a quick overview of the following leadership styles, this is a great place to start: Autocratic leadership, Bureaucratic leadership, Charismatic leadership, Democratic leadership or Participative leadership, Laissez-faire leadership, People-oriented leadership or Relations-Oriented leadership, Servant leadership, Task-oriented leadership, Transactional leadership, Transformational leadership
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Leadership Styles
By Don Clark
- A nice overview of leadership styles including an explanation of paternalism and authoritarian vs democratic, free reign versus delegative.
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(Added: 31-May-2007 Hits: 614
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6 Leadership Styles
By Marios Alexandrou
- Most successful leaders have strengths in several emotional intelligence competencies including self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill. Furthermore, there are six basic styles of leadership with each making use of the key components of emotional intelligence in different combinations. Finally, the best leaders are familiar with not just one style of leadership, but rather they make use of several and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.
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(Added: 31-May-2007 Hits: 986
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Adapting leadership styles
By Trans4mation
- Some argue that there is no one best leadership style, and transformational leadership is based on this assumption. If that's true, how do you go about adapting your leadership style to each situation. This articles starts you on your way to addressing this.
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(Added: 31-May-2007 Hits: 284
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Leading Without Formal Authority
Management Gurus and Heros : Argyris Chris
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Chris Argyris immaturity / maturity motivation theory.
By na
- Chris Argyris, of Harvard University, compared bureaucratic / pyramidal values (the organizational counterpart to Theory X assumptions about people) that still dominate far too organizations with a more humanistic / democratic value system (the organizational counterpart to Theory Y assumptions about people) as outlined in the table below.
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(Added: 2-Apr-2006 Hits: 255
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Management Gurus and Heros : Maslow Abraham
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Abraham Maslow - A Theory of Human Motivation
By Abraham Maslow
- Published originally in Psychological Review, here is scholarly article by Abraham Maslow outlining his theory of human motivation. Of historical significance, and a primary source for understanding Maslow's work on motivation.
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(Added: 15-Jan-2007 Hits: 233
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Abraham Maslow - His theory
By Dr. C. George Boeree
- Excellent summary of Maslow's work in humanistic psychology covers the basics, including self-actualization, hierarchy of needs, meta needs, meta pathologies, and finally, a brief critique.
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(Added: 15-Jan-2007 Hits: 304
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Management Gurus and Heros : McGregor Douglas
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Free Theory X, Theory Y Assessement Tool
By Alan Chapman
- A free downloadable assessement tool to determine whether you (or another manager) is theory x or theory y. As with all such instruments don't take the results too seriously.
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(Added: 25-Sep-2006 Hits: 512
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Management Gurus and Heros : Welch Jack
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HOW JACK WELCH RUNS GE
By Business Week
- A Close-up Look at How America's #1 Manager Runs GE (or rather how he ran it before he retired).
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(Added: 23-May-2001 Hits: 276
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Motivational Leadership
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Employee Motivation Strategies
By n a
- These five employee motivation strategies involve improving levels of trust between the leadership of your company and staff. Consider these strategies for your organization.
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(Added: 21-Feb-2007 Hits: 239
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A Safe Employee Is A Motivated Employee
By n a
- Listed within are some methods for showing how much you value each of your employees' contributions. As the title states, a safe employee is a valued and motivated employee.
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(Added: 21-Feb-2007 Hits: 214
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Self-Leadership
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12 Rules for Self-Leadership
By na
- The concept of leading oneself in order to leader others boiled down into 12 simple rules to follow.
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(Added: 18-Jun-2007 Hits: 218
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Team Leadership
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Effective Leadership And Team Building Exercises
By n a
- As a leader, you would like to develop your team into an excellent cohesive group all striving for the same goals. Check out these two team building exercises designed to increase profits and to help your team deal with adversity in a positive way.
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(Added: 5-Feb-2007 Hits: 345
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Transformational and Transactional Leadership
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Transformational Leadership
By Colonel Mark A. Homrig
- Written by a military man, this analysis and explanation of transformational leadership explains the history of the concept, the point of it, and includes references. Excellent, and recommended.
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(Added: 19-Feb-2007 Hits: 418
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Transformational Leadership - An Overview
By na
- Short, to the point overview of the transformational leadership model that includes assumptions, associated leadership styles, and strengths and weaknesses.
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(Added: 28-Feb-2007 Hits: 554
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Bass' Transformational Leadership Theory
By na
- A look at B.M. Bass and his perspective on transformational leadership. Short overview with additional references for those interested.
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(Added: 28-Feb-2007 Hits: 735
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TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
By David M. Boje
- A comprehensive analysis of leadership approaches including history, and names associated. Presents several different views of transformational leadership and contrasts with transactional model. Summarizes Weber, Burns, Bennis, Schein
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(Added: 28-Feb-2007 Hits: 535
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The Ethics of Transformational Leadership by Bernard Bass
By Bernard M. Bass
- Critics argue that transformational leadership may be unethical despite the fact that transformational leadership was conceived as morally uplifting and required leaders with moral maturity. It is important to refute their arguments since transformational leadership has demonstrated effectiveness and acceptance that generalizes across organizations and countries
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Leadership of Stability and Leadership of volatility: Transactional and Transformational Leaderships Compared
By Iain Hay Ph.D.
- This review paper compares and contrasts transactional and transformational leadership. It characterizes the former as leadership of stability and exchange; the latter as leadership of values and volatility. The paper concludes by pointing to the growing orthodoxy that positions transactional and transformational leadership as linked, complementary and related styles enacted by all leaders to different extents in different contexts.
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(Added: 5-Mar-2007 Hits: 714
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