Posts Tagged ‘transformational’
EBM: Transformational Leadership
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 [...]
VideoMonday: Simon Sinek on How great leaders inspire action
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.
Book Review: Greater Than Yourself
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 Theory
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 [...]
