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how can I get myself into a situation where I have the necessary sources of power to be able to correctly identify important business issues and then to provide leadership in dealing with those issues?
John P. Kotter • Power and Influence
Russell Ackoff • The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
Systems become tenacious quickly.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
one of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people’s excuses for failure.
Robert C. Townsend • Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
True proactiveness comes from seeing how we contribute to our own problems. It is a product of our way of thinking, not our emotional state.
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline
The more aware the manager becomes of interrelationships, the more incongruous becomes the idea that “bigger is better”—without an awareness of purpose, or the balance of the natural order.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
When each link is managed somewhat separately, the system can get stuck in a low-effectiveness state. The problem arises because of quality matching.1 That is, if you are in charge of one link of the chain, there is no point in investing resources in making your link better if other link managers are not.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Rather than inspirational leadership styles, efficiency based practices would need managers who are disciplined,…
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David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
In the late 1990s, a group of midlevel students at GE’s Crotonville leadership institute challenged him, saying that the “#1, #2, fix, close, or sell” strategy was hurting the company because executives were gaming the system.