Kurt Lewin (1951), organizational theorist of “three phases” fame, also developed the concept of force fields in change. Lewin basically asserts that there are forces that drive change or progress toward a goal (helping forces) and forces that drive resistance to change (hindering forces). The difference in resistance to change vs. readiness to change lies [...]
Famed Harvard Legal professor, Dershowitz, asks developing and aspiring leaders to think forward. Taking a page from science fiction, Dershowitz asks his students to imagine the future and what issues will have to be confronted. In asking the question, his hope is to get people thinking about where we’re going, prepare them to confront challenges, [...]
Michael Porter has argued that business legitimacy has been lost. In this Businessweek.com article, Charles Green argues that long-term thinking can restore it.
Competitive Theory and Business Legitimacy – BusinessWeek
W Edwards Deming was an American statistician, considered the father of the modern quality movement. In 1982, Edwards Deming published “Out of the Crisis” identifying 14 points for management which if applied would enable Japanese manufacturing efficiencies to be realized.
Deming’s 14 Points:
Create constancy of purpose and continual improvement where long-term planning replaces short-term reaction.
Adopt this [...]
LeaderLab is a community of resources. We intentionally chose the term community not just to show that it is more than one blog or one journal, we also chose it because we’re trying to create a community of those how want to help leaders practice theory. In only six months of existence, we’ve found and [...]
Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau are co-founders of E Pluribus Partners. They are also co-authors of Fired Up or Burned Out. In this podcast, they make a compelling case for why the next competitive advantage is engaged employees and explain how to build the connection culture that engages them.
0:00 Introduction
4:00 What is a connection [...]
From the Washington Post:
“There’s an awful lot of research about leadership out there. Many of these studies have information that can really assist current leaders and up-and-comers focus on the things that really matter. Unfortunately, unless you’re a professor or have extra time on your hands, the research will most likely go unread.
So that you [...]
Systems thinking is the understanding of how things influence one another within a whole. In nature, systems examples include ecosystems in which various elements and creatures work together to survive or perish. In organizations, systems consist of people, structures and processes that work together to make an organization healthy or unhealthy.
Systems thinking is one way [...]
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 developing [...]
LeaderSkilz – ‘Encouragement’ from The Soderquist Center on Vimeo.
Sometimes leaders are glorified; sometimes they’re reviled. Often, they’re simply taken for granted. Whatever the case, leaders clearly play a vital role in the success or failure of every organization — not to mention every city, state, and country. This Q&A with leadership theorist Dr. Bruce Avolio explores the process of leadership.
Leadership is a Process, [...]
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