Recommended Leadership Links
December
“Tim Tebow shows that in sports, there’s no faking leadership”
The Scripture quoting rookie quarterback for the Denver Broncos has all the right leadership qualities, at least when compared to a couple of other Washington, DC area coaches according the sports writer Sally Jenkins.
Leadership Now monthly book recommendations are some of the best available included a new survey of iconic leaders – “World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business as We Knew It.”
Given the Leading to Serve perspective I’m always interested when a super-rich corporate leader turns to charity as in Richard Branson’s new book Screw Business as Usual.
The pormo reads “Richard reveals his exciting new vision for the future. It’s time to turn capitalism upside down – to shift our values, to switch from a just profit focus, to caring for people, communities and the planet.”
Don’t miss the monthly “tweets” – more than you’ll ever remember about who is saying what about leadership.
“What Should We Teach Our Business Leaders?” – from Business Week
Harvard Business School’s Dean, Nitin Nohria, perhaps the person most able to influence leadership thinking in today’s world believes that business leaders often suffer from “moral overconfidence,” or an inflated sense of their strength of character. So moral humility may be the most important thing we can teach them.
for further commentary on Nohria’s comments see
“Good News CEOs with Big Egos,” by Jena McGregor in the Washington Post Leadership section.
November
I Steve: Jobs In His Own Words
October
New Leadership Books for October 2011 – recommended by Leadership Now
“Where have all the Leaders Gone?” - from the Harvard Business Review
“The irony is it’s likely that more money has been spent on leadership development in the last two decades — in both the public and private sectors — than was probably spent in the previous ten decades combined (admittedly I’m guessing here; no figures seem to be available). So why are we not turning out better leaders across the board? Let me suggest two possibilities”
“Personal Best: Top athletes and singers have coaches. Should you?” from the New Yorker – Annals of Medicine by Atul Gawande
surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School – His bestselling book “The Checklist Manifesto” is now available in paperback.
Imagine the Future: Developing Young Leaders
“Young people are shouldering the weight of the world. How do we help them lead now and become effective leaders in the future?”
Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It,” Revised Edition by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
“The process of building and sustaining credibility requires six disciplines: discover your self, appreciate constituents, affirm shared values, develop capacity, serve a purpose, and sustain hope. The authors devote a chapter to each of these issues.”
What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential
“Successful leaders go through significant periods of time in which they feel confused, discouraged, and unsure of themselves and their decisions. They feel as if they should be somewhere else, doing something else.
And unsuccessful leaders go through the same thing. The difference, says Harvard professor Robert Kaplan, is “how they deal with these periods of confusion and uncertainty. The trick lies not in avoiding these difficult periods; it lies in knowing how to step back, diagnose, regroup, and move forward.”
“Leadership Lessons for an Uncertain World,” by James Saalfield in Bigthink.com
“I don’t think people should ever go to a place about which they don’t have a passion. They should not just chase opportunity. They should chase opportunity where they have a passion. And for me, one of the most exciting things about this new global century is that it creates many, many more possibilities for people to find places where they have an opportunity and a passion.” Nitin Nohria, Dean of the Harvard Business School
