Last week I wrote an article entitled “Seven Things To Expect From Your Narcissistic Employee” that looked at how to deal with employees that are overly self-absorbed, arrogant, manipulative, and believe they are entitled to lead others. But that article did not address what to expect from a leader with a narcissistic personality.
Once again, there [...]
Liz Wiseman is president of The Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development center headquartered in Silicon Valley. She advises senior executives and leads strategy and leadership forums for executive teams worldwide. A former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource [...]
Transformational leadership involves the ability to inspire and motivate followers to take action toward the desire goal or behavior. We all know that inspiration is a vital part of effective leadership, most of us just don’t know what it means to inspire someone. Instead, we sell them on the desired actions or levels of performance [...]
Often managers are called to be more than just managers; they’re called to be leaders. Recent literature continues to blur the line between management and leadership. However, one theory stands out because of its potential to make clear cut distinctions between leaders and managers: Transformational Leadership theory.
Transformational Leadership is a relatively new approach to leadership [...]
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” Using examples that range from Apple to Martin Luther King, Simon demonstrates the power inspirational motivation (one of the four factors of transformational leadership) has in stirring followers toward action.
Few business parables are well written. Fewer still explain solid leadership principles. Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadership does both. Steve Farber, author of The Radical Leap and The Radical Edge, returns with a new fable. In Greater Than Yourself, Farber explores what it takes to build and develop the people underneath [...]
Transformational leadership is a relatively new approach to leadership that focuses on how leaders can create valuable and positive change in their followers. James MacGregor Burns first introduced the concepts of transformational leadership when studying political leaders, but this term is now used when studying organizations as well. Burns described two leadership styles: transactional and [...]
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