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Balancing Management and Leadership: What’s Your Power Source?

The Practical Leader

Finding the right balance of management and leadership is a continuous challenge. Less effective managers use position power and get people doing things because they have to. Managers often hide behind rules and policies. They use position power to cover up weak people leadership skills. Management.

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Bookseller Leadership Mistakes

Coaching Tip

First Borders, then Barnes & Noble CEOs make the wrong leadership decisions. The new retail-oriented CEO decided to close down their website, fire their internal website experts and contract out information technology by having their books sold through Amazon.com. Leadership is Already Inside You. Related articles.

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StrategyDriven Welcomes Ruth Todd, PhD

Strategy Driven

A highly experienced nuclear power consultant, Ruth leads StrategyDriven's information technology and cyber security services. "We Her extensive knowledge and experience in information technology and cyber security adds a critical dimension to our advisory services practice and brings tremendous value to our clients.".

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Selfless Leadership: Putting Our Cause First | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

He is reminding us that true leadership requires a degree of selflessness. IF YOU WILL LEAD, LLC Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Infrastructure Consulting IF YOU WILL LEAD recognizes that your personal and professional success depends, in large part, on your ability to effectively and powerfully lead.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? There are many ways to be a founder.

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We Need Better Managers, Not More Technocrats

Harvard Business Review

Or as Richard Straub of the Peter Drucker Society of Europe puts the question , “are managers equipped – in terms of skills, competencies and courage – to lead us toward the Great Transformation?”. Our overarching conclusion is that, while many companies undertake digital initiatives, most do not manage to bring about transformative change.

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The Unnoticed Analyst: Can analytics succeed while going unnoticed.

Strategy Driven

Researchers at the IT Leadership Academy are doing just that in Global 2000 enterprises. True victory lies in capturing the imagination, respect and energy of a broad and diverse set of stakeholders, including suppliers, customers and executives. The CIO’s response tends to be “reports” (61 percent of the population).