Leadership Turn

May 10th, 2008

About leaders

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After all this talk about the need for managers to possess strong leadership traits, I have another question for you.
According to Warren Bennis’ list, a leader

innovates;
is an original;
develops;
focuses on people;
inspires;
investigates reality;
long-range perspective;
asks what and why;
eye on the horizon;
originates;
challenges the status quo;
is his own person;
does the right thing.

What […]

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April 29th, 2008

Leader/manager = leadager

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Nick McCormick’s comment left on George Ambler’s Leaders vs. Managers….. Are they really different? did a great job summing up my feelings on this perpetual controversy.
George cites Warren Bennis’ statement “There is a profound difference between management and leadership, and both are important. To manage means to bring […]

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April 26th, 2008

Evaluating leadership info

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Reviewing The Offsite Thursday and sharing the Lao Tzu quotes drove home the point that the best leadership advice is classic. Because it’s been around for so long each generation of leadership gurus and commentators usually discuss previous teachings in different ways using modern language.
As with most MAP […]

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April 24th, 2008

Are politicians leaders?

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Bridget from Biz Chicks Rule was surprised that I don’t consider politicains leaders since “they tell us their vision and lay a path of guidance to show how we’re going to get there?”
To me, the ability to articulate a vision and describe a path a leader does […]

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April 12th, 2008

Four Quick Steps to Improve Your Writing

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Everybody knows that leadership requires superb communication skills, both verbal and written. In fact, the better your ability to communicate the more likely you are to move forward and upward. Sadly, skilled writing is as rare as hen’s teeth and even adequate writing is getting harder to find.
Combine […]

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April 10th, 2008

5 things for leaders to do in a layoff

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Leadership isn’t always fun, but leaders need to lead.
There are ominous rustlings in the media these days about layoffs and they’ll probably happen—some real and some self-fulfilling prophesy. As the boss you not only have to decide whether, but how.
‘Whether’ is decision only you can make, but ‘how’ […]

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March 13th, 2008

Leadership and delegation through time

I came across some basic leadership advice (usually the best kind) in an Economic Times article called Leadership through delegation.
What I found interesting is that the Economic Times is a sub group of India Times and the information was adapted from a 2004 article in Entrepreneur magazine.
I found it interesting because as business takes off, […]

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February 29th, 2008

Review: Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have

Justin Menkes’ Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have shines a hard light on what sets executives apart. Why does one show brilliant insight while another moves at normal levels and yet another badly blows it?
Menkes makes a case that it is intelligence and the resulting cognitive skills that underlie the brilliance seen in […]

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February 5th, 2008

Leaders who DO: Casey Ross

In case you didn’t know, the Leadership Turn community is fantabulous and none more so than Casey Ross. Casey is the kind of leader that DOES and what he wrote was so good that I’ve borrowed a chunk for republication here along with the IBM logo he loves. I agree, it really does say it […]

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January 31st, 2008

Attn leaders/managers: people are people

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Ignoring for the sake of this post that I think leading and managing are heavily intertwined, consider the biggest thing they have in common—people.
Call them followers or employees/volunteers/staff they’re all people. No matter their age, attitude, education, economic status, gender, etc., they’re still people. And it doesn’t change with country, industry, or […]

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