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The Essence of Managerial Leadership
Leadership is not a position, it is action. "The genuine leader is someone who can express a
vision and
then get people to carry it out." -
Jack Welch
Leadership and Management
Selecting a New Corporate Leader:
3
Questions to Answer
Lessons from Peter Drucker
... Third: Look for
integrity. A leader sets an example, especially a
strong
leader. He or she is someone on whom people especially
younger people in the organization model themselves...
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Corporate Leader
As a
corporate executive of your firm, you
have a critical responsibility for the direction and successful operation of
all business units within your organization.

Corporate leadership involves a complex set of
issues that demands a certain cross-unit expertise, which seldom is achieved
through management experience at the business-unit level. You must search
for
synergies and explore achievements
that are possible at the corporate level through cross-unit activity and the
development of entirely new growth opportunities...
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Case in Point
Jack Welch
While boosting productivity and getting results were of paramount importance
to
Jack Welch, the legendary former CEO of General Electric,
how someone got a team to perform
mattered more. He looked for managers who he felt had
the four E's of leadership8:
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Energy. Leaders with tremendous
personal energy.
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Energize. Those who
energize teams,
and don't intimidate them.
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Edge. Someone with a competitive
edge and a will to win.
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Execution. Those leaders who have a
track record of
getting results...
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A Leader's Mood: The Dimmer Switch of
Performance
How
do you work on attaining the consistent, emotionally intelligent leadership
behaviors that breed success in yourself and others? Here are a few other
suggestions to consider that can improve your and your team's performance...
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Inspirational Leadership: 10 Roles
Inspirational leaders create an
inspiring
culture within their organization. They supply a shared
vision
and inspire people to achieve more than they may ever have dreamed possible.
They are able to articulate a shared vision in
a way that inspires others to act.
People do what they have to do for a
manager, they do their best for an inspirational leader...
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The Foundation of Leadership: Achieving
Extraordinary Results
By: Brian Tracy
The most important quality of leadership, the
one quality for which you want to be known, is extraordinary performance,
with the goal of achieving extraordinary results. These results then serve
as an inspiration to others to perform at equally exceptional levels. People
ascribe leadership to those men and women who they feel can most enable them
to achieve important goals or objectives...
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Managing for Results
To achieve results, you
should develop a solid, sound, customer-focused, and
entrepreneurial strategy, aimed at
market leadership, based on
innovation, and tightly focused on decisive opportunities...
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6Ws of Corporate Growth
Develop a Clear Vision
The one quality that all
leaders have in common is that they
have a clear and
exciting
vision for the future. This is something that only the
leader can do. Only the leader can think about the future and
plan for the future each day...
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18 Leadership Lessons from Colin Powell
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Great leaders are almost always great
simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a
solution everybody can understand. The result? Clarity of purpose,
credibility of leadership, and integrity of organization.
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The most important question in
performance evaluation becomes not "How well did you perform your job
since the last time we met?" but "How much did you change it?"...
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Emotional Task of the Business Leader
The best leaders have found effective ways to understand and
improve the way they handle their own and their followers' emotions.
Understanding the powerful role of emotions in the workspace will enable you
to achieve better both tangible results such as higher profits and the
retention of talents, and intangible ones, such as higher morale,
motivation, and commitment.

Empathy
Empathy is valued currency. It
allows us to create bonds of
trust, it gives us insights into what others may be feeling
or thinking; it helps us understand how or why others are
reacting to situations, it sharpens our people acumen and
informs our decisions. Empathy is also particularly critical to
leadership development in this age of young, independent,
highly marketable and mobile workers...
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Building Sustainable Competitive Advantage
You must focus your firms resources on what it does best and
what creates sustainable competitive advantage.
Continuously assess, redefine, and then secure core competencies that your
firm must have to compete. The following are three main characteristics of
your core competences:
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They should make a disproportional contribution to stakeholder value
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They should open the door to other opportunities
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They should represent such a unique blend of
tacit and explicit
knowledge that it cannot be copied by others...
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Strategies for Leading Breakthroughs
So what separates
extraordinary leaders from proponents of the status quo?
They break the rules. Except, not in an arbitrary or
capricious way. When you look at examples of extraordinary
leadership, like the Founding Fathers of the United States or
Jack Welch of
GE, certain practices or principles become apparent. To
start, there is a
declaration of what the future will be. There is also a
purpose, something to stand for. And finally, there is a clearly
articulated commitment...
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Main Tasks of
Business Leaders...
Leadership vs.
Management...
Establishing a Purpose, Direction, and a Set of Goals...
Being a
Managerial Leader Means, Above All...
Integrity...
Creating and Leading an Adaptive Organization...
New Mental Model: Business
Process Thinking...
Twelve Major Causes of
Failure in Leadership...
The
Balanced Manager...
Two Sets of
Skills an Effective Leader...
Transformational Leadership...
How To Make Big Changes...
Situational Leadership and Leadership Styles...
Creative
Leadership...
Inspiring
People...
Energizing
Employees...
Developing Entrepreneurial Staff...
NLP Solutions:
Pacing and Leading...
Integrity - the New Leadership
Story...
Case in Point
GE Leadership Assessment
Survey...
Case in Point
Welch's Seven-Point Program for Management by
Leadership...
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