Archive for the ‘LeaderLab Papers’ Category
Portable Guide to Leading Change
[The following is an excerpt from our latest ebook published through LeaderLab Papers entitled The Portable Guide to Change. If you like the blurb, download the ebook for free. If you don't, download it anyway and then take satisfaction in dragging it to your recycle bin.] Most people view organizational change the same way they [...]
New LeaderLab Paper – The Portable Guide to Strategy
The very mention of the word strategy brings with it connotations of planning and images of executives sitting around large tables at off-site meeting facilities. These executives pour over data regarding what products are profitable and unprofitable. Finally, they emerge from their off-site cave with a step-by-step guide for the rest of the hierarchy to [...]
The Portable Guide to Management
In the organizational world, we tend to believe that managers get better by being managers. As you gain years of experience, we mindless believe, then you become better and better at managing. Surely, there is something to be said for experience. However, managers must realize that their experience is anecdotal. Just because it worked once [...]
New LeaderLab Paper – On Followership
01.03 On Followership Critics of followership say that “follower” suggests subservience. No doubt employees should take more ownership and be as proactive as Ira Chaleff’s “courageous followers.” But language matters, and followership is an unfortunate choice of words. To address this issue we need to see how followership rests on a confused notion of leadership. [...]
New LeaderLab Paper – Portable Guide to Leadership
01.02 The Portable Guide to Leadership Airport bookstores are crowded with books on leadership and each one seems to promote a “leadership lack.” They’ll each begin with phrases like “The most pressing issue in organizations is that leaders lack integrity…or empathy…or strategy…or even humor. These books continue by laying out the authors’ simple framework for [...]
