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Leading Views: Four Leadership Imperatives

Leading Blog

In The Performance Pipeline author Stephen Drotter describes a pipeline model that helps leaders at all levels address four leadership imperatives. The Fourth Imperative: Leaders must create an environment where sufficient focus is achievable. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study. An assessment should be done of the high potential employees to determine their current strengths and development needs. We’ll look at how they determined what competencies were needed for future leaders and what comprised the program that was developed.

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Why Middle Managers Need to “Fire” Themselves as Supervisors

Great Leadership By Dan

The reason they were such great Coordinators is because they were good at motivating and developing their players. As a Head Coach, they need to make a shift to motivating and developing their coaches, as well as focusing on big picture responsibilities like media and public relations, scouting, and other administrative responsibilities.

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10 Essential Leadership Models

Great Leadership By Dan

While there have been thousands of books written about leadership, there are a handful of leadership models that have served me well as a leader and leadership development practitioner. Developed by Ken Blanchard and Paul Hersey, it’s a timeless classic. A philosophy and practice of leadership developed by Robert K.

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The 6 Passages of Leadership and Management

Great Leadership By Dan

Charan, Drotter, and Noel wrote about six leadership passages in their classic book The Leadership Pipeline. Leading organizations requires learning how to identify and develop other leaders, because no one leader can create and sustain extraordinary performance on their own. There’s a big difference, right?

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Video Book Club: The Leadership Pipeline

Next Level Blog

The book has been around for about ten years and it’s become a go to resource for anyone charged with developing senior leaders. In the video review, I walk through the simple yet resonant model of career path transitions that the authors Charan, Drotter and Noel outline in the book.

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The Leadership Pipeline

CEO Blog

The Leadership Pipeline - How to Build the Leadership Powered Company by Ram Charan , Steve Drotter and Jim Noel was awesome. I try and make sure they are all business books though otherwise all sorts of odd management models can develop. It is a must read for any aspiring leader at any level. I like Ram Charans books.