Leadership, a critical management skill, is the ability to motivate a group of people toward a common goal. These items will help you develop your skills as a leader.
Being a leader is very different than being the boss. Here are eight traits that make a leader stand out.
Readers nominate their best boss, the best leader they have known.
Talking Out Loud, a guest article by Leslie Kossoff, emphasizes that it's not enough to have great thoughts you have to have the courage to let the words out of your mouth ahead of time. That is hard, but it is necessary if you are to be a leader
In this guest article, From Manager to Leader, Leslie Kossoff explains the difference between management and leadership and details a step by step plan for anyone to become a leader.
Flatter organizations and more self-directed teams means fewer managers are needed. However, people who can manage themselves and others in a high stress environment are in greater demand. Anyone can be a good manager. Here are some things that make you a better manager.
Part 4 in a series of 4 artilces on strategic planning, this feature details the need to motivate the people in your organization to work toward the common goal and offers leadership tips on how to accomplish that goal.
We all know them. The toxic bosses. They make a large company an unpleasant place to work and can kill a small company. Your have to be a leader and solve the problem. Here's how to do it.
Leadership is different than management. It is the art of getting people to move together toward a goal
they don't yet see. These books best capture that unique idea.
Patrick Lencioni has written this superior management book as a "leadership fable". Short at 180 pages, it is full of useful ideas for right now and is an easy read - a must read for any manager.
In this interview with Management Guru Oren Harari on his leadership book "Beep! Beep! Competing in the Age of the Roadrunner", he discusses the changes leaders will have to make to succeed.
The start of a US-led war against Iraqi indicates a failure of diplomacy. It also indicates a failure of the US Congress to effectively guide President Bush in his capacity as CEO of the US. It's a case of corporate governance failure within the same government that is trying to fix corporate governance failures within American business.
Don Clark's Big Dog Leadership Page is a guide for new managers. It is arguably the most complete treatment of this important subject and includes the concepts of leadership and a basic background on leadership. It also includes the skills and knowledge needed to implement effective leadership.
From Wally Bock, you can only concentrate on a few things, here is a quick summary of what's imortant for leaders.
An excellent collection of general articles about the foundations of leadership. The site deals with issues such as perspective, leading versus managing and how leaders lead.
The University of Maryland has identified ten core competencies its leaders should have. See how your program compares.
Wally Bock's article on the different roles we have to play "Leader, Manager, Supervisor: Three Roles Everyone Responsible for a Group Must Fill"
This website is devoted to helping managers become leaders. Most are articles by the page owner, but he clearly understand the value of leadership for managers.
