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Research into leadership is now a light industry. It’s product, hard data on the soft stuff.
Research into leadership is now a light industry. It's product, hard data on the soft stuff.
1. Everyone can be a leader
2. Leaders deliver business results.
3. People who get to the top are leaders.
4. Leaders are great coaches.
Source: Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones, “What makes a leader?’ LBSR 2004
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw.
Jim Collins champions Level 5 Leadership, a blend of selflessness, humility and iron will. The simple formula is:
Humility + Will = Level 5
Source: Jim Collins, Good to Great, Random House, 2001
Providing strategic direction
Monitoring team performance
Instructing team members
Providing hands-on assistance as required.
Source: Katherine Klein, LBSR 2005
“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.”
Aldous Huxley
1. Be real
2. Decentre
3. Build ensembles
4. Scan and scout
5. Frame the journey
Source: Nigel Nicholson, The “I” of Leadership, Jossey Bass 2013
Research by Rakesh Khurana of Harvard Business School estimates that anywhere from 30 to 40% of corporate performance can be attributed to industry effects; 10-20% to cyclical economic changes; and 10% to the CEO.
Source: “A leadership miscellany”, LBSR, 2005
NYPD chief Bill Bratton cut felonies by 39%, murders by 50% and theft by 35% in just two years. His leadership was built on 4 elements:
The cognitive - communicating and ensuring managers are in touch with the problems.
Politics – keeping internal foes quiet and isolating external ones.
Resources – initially concentrating on trouble areas.
Motivation – matching messages to various levels within the organisation.
Source: W Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, “Tipping point leadership”, Harvard Business Review, April 2003
Source: www.gallup.com
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