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Defining
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What qualities characterize a good
leader? How does a leader build an
effective leadership style? Which techniques do
the best of them use to achieve their
goals? What are the main stages of
leadership development? This topic contains
resources that explore the nature and basic
qualities of leadership.
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A Leader's
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Paul Wieand went on a quest for power and
became one of the banking industry's
youngest-ever CEOs. After his world collapsed,
and he went on a painful search for the real
meaning of leadership. |
| May 1999 |
FastCompany.com |
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The
Definition of Leadership: Are You a Great
Leader?
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Are you a great leader? Do you get confused
by the difference between leaders and bosses?
There is a major difference between the two -
where one demands authority, the other earns
respect. |
Feb 2009 |
LeaderSkillsTraining.com |
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Leadership:
An Overview |
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A slide presentation providing an overview of
leadership from the earliest writings to current
thinking. |
| Nov 2001 |
Dr. Wendy L. Schultz |
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An Overview
of Leadership in
Organizations |
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Many people today are seeking to understand -
and many people are writing about - the concept
and practices of leadership. There are a great
many reasons for the popularity of the topic,
including how organizations must deal with
newfound changes. |
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Carter McNamara MBA PhD |
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Guidelines to
Understand Literature about
Leadership |
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There is a recent explosion of literature
about leadership. This literature
offers advice from many different
perspectives, which can be quite confusing to
readers. The guidelines in this article help the
reader to get the most out of leadership
literature, by closely examining writer's
various points of view and
suggestions. |
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Carter McNamara MBA PhD |
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The Clear
Leader |
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A mind-numbing number of qualities have been
identified as essential for good leadership, but
must they ALL be mastered? |
| March 2005 |
FastCompany.com |
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Strategy,
Execution, and
Innovation |
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What enabled the Detroit Pistons to overcome
the mighty Los Angeles Lakers in this year's NBA
finals? Great game plans? Or great players? The
answer may surprise and is just as applicable to
your organization. |
| April 2007 |
FastCompany.com |
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How to be a
Real Leader |
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The Author writes, "To be more effective with
others, we first need to become more effective
with ourselves." How do we achieve
that? |
| April 1999 |
Kevin Cashman -
FastCompany.com |
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The
Enspirational
Leader |
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A key difference between adequate and
excellent leaders is their ability to
inspire and motivate people. This article
explains the key qualities of inspirational
leadership. |
| Oct 2005 |
Mark Goulston -
FastCompany.com |
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An
Intellectual History of Leadership
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Confucius sought laws of order between
leaders and subordinates. Plato described an
ideal republic with philosopher-kings providing
wise and judicious leadership. James MacGregor
Burns provides an erudite examination of the
history of leadership studies in this lengthy
article. |
| Aug 2000 |
Georgia Sorenson - Academy of
Leadership |
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Leadership
Theories: A 20th Century
History |
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Dr. Schultz provides a slide presentation on
the various theories of leadership over the
20th century. Speaker notes are also
provided. |
| Sept 2001 |
Dr. Wendy L. Schultz |
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Late 80's:
Alternative
Theories |
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Continuation of the previous presentation
focusing on theories of leadership popular in
the 1980’s. |
| Sept 2001 |
Dr. Wendy L. Schultz |
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The Leader of
the Future |
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A discussion with Ronald Heifetz, director of
the Leadership Education Project at Harvard
University's John F. Kennedy School of
Government, on what the leader of the
future needs to have. |
| May 1999 |
William Taylor -
FastCompany.com |
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Leadership in
the Next Millennium
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What are the actions, skills and strategies
that leaders will need to sustain a competitive
advantage in tomorrow's fast paced world, and
how do you develop leaders from where they are
now to where they will need to be? A
presentation by Richard Aldersea that discusses
the future of leadership. |
| 1999 |
Richard Aldersea |
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How Can
Potential Leaders be Identified: The 9 faces of
Leadership |
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According to FedEx, its best leaders share
nine personal attributes - defined by the
company with remarkable specificity. FedEx
also has a system for rating aspiring leaders on
whether they possess these attributes. How do
you rate? Judge yourself against these edited
descriptions of the nine faces of leadership at
FedEx. |
| Jan 1998 |
FastCompany.com |
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20/20
Visionary |
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Many leaders are massively inquisitive; they
delight in ambiguity. But your job is to distill
the world's complexity into a vivid path to the
future. If you're not clear in your own mind,
you won't be clear to the people who are trying
to follow you. You can't lead unless you can
conclude. And you can't conclude if you don't
make time to think. Read about becoming a
visionary-seeing leader. |
| Mar 2005 |
FastCompany.com |
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Defining Leadership
