How to Develop Your Leadership Style
The idea is the power behaviors in the positiveis when you get these attributionsof dynamic, charismatic, confident, commanding,an expert, articulate, easy to listen to, influential.
Harvard Business Review • Defining and Adapting Your Leadership Style | IdeaCast | Podcast
The choice of how to lead is more than a skill. It is a reflection of both the leader himself and of the culture he or she has created for the company. I once told an audience of corporate salespeople how impressed I was with Tom May from Nstar in Boston. NStar is Massachusetts’s largest investor-owned electrical gas utility. He could get anything
... See moreDavid Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
roughly a third come looking for techniques—skills, tactics, a tool kit. They are interested in what Heifetz calls the instruments” of leadership. They hope to find the right path, discover “how to package the skills I have,” or “a recipe that lets you know what you’re doing wrong.” They hope to learn how to guide and convince according to some yet
... See moreSharon Daloz Parks • Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
It is easy to see that there are many ways for leaders to be misinterpreted. To get things right, you must recognize that anything you measure automatically creates a set of employee behaviors. Once you determine the result you want, you need to test the description of the result against the employee behaviors that the description will likely creat
... See moreBen Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
That research found that the two virtually universal dimensions used to assess people are warmth and competence.13 Here’s the rub: to appear competent, it is helpful to seem a little tough, or even mean.
Jeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
