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From Leadership Point of View to Personal Leader Brand
Leaders who are more self-aware may have personal insight and intensity, but unless it is directed in the right ways, it won't have sustainable impact. To have sustainable impact, a leadership point of view needs to become a personal leader brand. In this essay lay our four characteristics of building a leader brand. -
Functional Misalignment
Mark Nyman explains when management attempts to improve functions without aligning them with the larger organization, it usually ends up hurting overall business performance. -
How Leaders Build Value
(Note: Originally published in hardcover as Why the Bottom-Line Isn’t.) How to use intangibles to increase the value of your business Originally published under the title Why the Bottom Line Isn’t, this revised and updated edition shows business leaders how to build long-term value through assets not accounted for on the company’s financial statements. Through leadership, service, corporate culture, and the ability to attract top talent, businesses can create real,… -
Leadership and Governance from the Inside Out
At last, there’s a business leadership book that really tackles the tough issues of integrity and governance. Taking a unique approach to leadership, this book gathers the path-breaking perspectives of influential shareholder activists; opinion-leading CEOs of major firms; trailblazing, distinguished academics; and courageous regulators. The all-star roster of contributors from the corporate world and academia includes Vanguard's John Bogle, former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt, and Harvard Business School's Rosabeth Moss… -
Leadership Brand
Your company’s brands hold intangible value and differentiate your firm from rivals. So does your leadership brand – a shared identity among your organization’s leaders that differentiates what they can do from what your rivals’ leaders can do. In Leadership Brand, Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood show how branded leadership delivers unique value for firms’ investors, customers, and employees – elevating market value and creating a sharp competitive edge. The… -
Leadership Deficits Underlie Downgraded Credit Ratings
We need to solve our debt crisis to restore confidence in the American economy. Even more we need our leaders to work in the best interests of the nation to find solutions rather than serve unrealistic notions of political purity. Only by creating a surplus of effective leadership will we restore confidence on Wall Street and Main Street. -
Leadership Development Principles That Deliver Results
It is tempting and easy to cut back leadership investments in tough economic conditions. While recession times require appropriate management actions, leaders and CLOs should not under- or over-react. Under-reaction would occur if training continues as usual. Over-reaction would occur if all leadership investments are stopped or dramatically changed. The five principles Ulrich and Smallwood propose help ensure that changes in economic cycles do not affect investments in leadership development. -
Leadership Sustainability
Most of us who are interested in developing leadership have been here. We have taught a leadership development course with the latest principles of effective leadership; we have coached an aspiring leader about how to interpret and use 360 feedback; or we have reviewed an organization’s leadership development plans with the board or executive committee. Implicit in these and similar conversations and forums are the noble desires that principles become… -
Leading the Way
In Leading the Way, Hewitt Associates’ business leaders Robert Gandossy and Marc Effron present their findings from the largest research project ever conducted on leadership, the "Top Companies for Leaders." Using data from more than 600 companies around the globe and interviews with senior executives at the top companies, they present a compelling business case for investing in growing leaders. Their stories, examples, and tactics provide tangible, practical tools for…
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