Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
His leadership example of doing your job, treating others with respect, expecting people to do their jobs, and holding them accountable is a formula for success that will work in any good organization.
Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
A Manager's Guide to Coaching: Simple and Effective Ways to Get the Best From Your Employees
amazon.com
The approach to leadership we describe here, however, recognizes that the functions of authority often play a vital but markedly insufficient role in the practice of leadership.
Sharon Daloz Parks • Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
People need encouragement if they are to lead.
Jonathan Sacks • Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible (Covenant & Conversation Book 8)
Now I know that I must empower people for the new level of performance—not order it. The best way to empower people is to ask: What am I doing or not doing, as a leader, that prevents them from assuming responsibility and performing at the new level?
James A. Belasco • Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
Sometimes, even though you’re “in charge,” you need to be aware that in the moment you might have nothing to add, and so you don’t wade in. You trust your people to do their jobs and focus your energies on some other pressing issue.
Robert Iger • The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
The best framework for coaching is Ken Blanchard and Paul Hersey’s concept of Situational Leadership.
Verne Harnish • Scaling Up : How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)
The team philosophy at McKinsey, one senior partner explained to me, is illustrated by its approach to project work: “As a young individual consultant, you learn that your job is to hold your own: You can rest assured that the team will win. All you’ve got to do is do your part.”