“The effective executive builds on strengths – their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates and the strengths of the situation.”
Peter Drucker, 1966 ”The Effective Executive” — A Classic, must read.
From Business Management Daily
This article gives 5 reasons why introverts make great leaders.
Do you agree?
From The New York Times
We have a number of users of this blog that like to comment on PowerPoint
From the article: ““PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.”
We have Met The Enemy and He is PowerPoint
What do you think? What do you think of “The Slide”?
From Business Week : Debra Benton
This article written by a CEO Coach describes the qualities of a CEO. Are you ready? By the way, she contends that you can learn the qualities and I say, hopefully, say practice them.
Get Yourself some Executive Charisma
Do you agree that these qualities can be learned? What would you ADD to the set? Any you disagree with?
From Business Week
The article lists and briefly describes ten business management practices to get rid of. Some of which I agree with, some I do not. I still like #8, however some of what Liz Ryan says, I can agree with.
What should go, what should stay?
From Inc. Magazine Online Inc.com
How to Become a Servant Leader
Since being exposed to the concepts of Servant Leadership, I aspire to become a Servant Leader. This article helps us what actions make us a Servant Leader, and which do not.
What do you think of these ideas?
Reposted from the Greenleaf Newsletter
“THIS IS MY THESIS: caring for persons, the more able and the less able serving each other, is the rock upon which a good society is built. Whereas, until recently, caring was largely person to person, now most of it is mediated through institutions – often large, complex, powerful, impersonal; not always competent; sometimes corrupt. If a better society is to be built, one that is more just and more loving, one that provides greater creative opportunity for its people, then the most open course is to raise both the capacity to serve and the very performance as servant of existing major institutions by new regenerative forces operating within them.”
Servant Leadership as a way of leading.
What do you think?
Stanford Business School has published an article along with a video with an interview with Steve Ballmer. The video is 62 minutes long, however, I found it interesting to actually hear him speak about Managing Microsoft including his view of his review by the Microsoft Board of Directors. He also mentions GOOGLE and YAHOO as companies they “benchmark” on online marketing. His personality seems to really come through in this informal video. He talks about the 30 key indicators he and other managers use to understand the performance of the business including innovation and people management.
What did you find interesting?
As many of you know, I really like the work of John Kotter. His work comparing leadership to management as well as his work on leadership and change is the subject of many of our class discussions.
For all you Kotter fans out there, he has a new book. Linked here is an interview “Hearts and MInds” in Strategy and Business where he talks about the subject of his new book “A Sense of Urgency”.
For sure, urgency is critical in leadership situations. What do you think about Professor Kotter’s insights into the subject?
I was introduced to a streaming video by the Stanford Business Knowledgebase Newsletter entitled “Managing Your Boss“ This is part of a Last Lecture Series which offers advice to graduating MBAs.
The speaker is Professor Frank Lynn.
What did you think? Do you think that there are some good “lessons learned” for students? What are they? Do you think there are some good “lessons learned” for bosses? What are they?
Gene A. Wright
