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To succeed, leaders must understand and apply the core principles of leadership--but that’s not enough. You need to shape your approach for any unique situation. Too many leaders don’t know how to do that--and that’s why they fail. Ultimate Leadership shows how to adapt the principles of leadership to different challenges, contexts, and organizations. Russell E. Palmer--who has had three very different, highly successful careers as head of one of the world’s largest accounting firms, Dean of the Wharton School, and an entrepreneur--helps you identify the leadership model most appropriate for your environment, and how to lead accordingly. You’ll learn better ways to lead your equals...
This Element is an excerpt from Ultimate Leadership: Winning Execution Strategies for Your Situation (ISBN: 9780131933866) by Russell E. Palmer. Available in print and digital formats. Beyond the “iron fist”: breakthrough leadership techniques for today’s flatter, more egalitarian organizations. One of the most challenging organizations to lead is one in which many people in the organization are nominally equal to the top leader. Leaders these days need to persuade all kinds of people up and down their organizations and lead them not by the iron fist or any of the classical leadership approaches.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Ultimate Leadership: Winning Execution Strategies for Your Situation (9780131933866) by Russell E. Palmer. Available in print and digital formats. Find the right way to lead in any environment, because “one size” definitely does NOT fit all! One of the biggest mistakes a leader can make is to fail to understand that what works in the leader’s own organization can be very wrong in other contexts that may be part of the leader’s wider responsibilities. I have seen leaders who were brilliant in shaping their own organizations fail utterly when they found themselves in leadership roles in very different kinds of organizations. Each context requires a different approach to leadership...
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Ultimate Leadership: Winning Execution Strategies for Your Situation (9780131933866) by Russell E. Palmer. Available in print and digital formats. How to get people to do what you want in an era where you can’t pay them more, and loyalty “ain’t what it used to be”! If you can’t motivate your team, you won’t be effective no matter how well you may understand your organization. Human nature being what it is, people generally respond well to the same kind of treatment in any context. Perhaps surprisingly, I’ve found that most of what motivates them are non-rational incentives, so I devote most of this essay to them...
New Paperback Edition Networks and the Enterprise: Breakthrough Thinking and Actionable Strategies “This book presents an amazing collection of insights on underlying forces and ways to thrive in our post-Coaseian age—an age in which the centralized firm is changing into an agile and resilient network of participants. A must read for a world where unpredictability reigns supreme.” —John Seely Brown, Independent Co-Chair of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation, and Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California “I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this research...I have already begun to put the ideas into practice in designing ne...
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success (9780132349864) by Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel. Available in print and digital formats. The business advantages of compassion and forgiveness—and how to “walk the walk,” not just “talk the talk” When it’s business as usual, acts of compassion are small or subtle in the great organizational scheme of things. But when a major crisis strikes, it is easy to see the difference between the truly compassionate organization and one that gives lip service to values. On a cold December night in 1995, a devastating fire tore through Aaron Feuerstein’s factory in Lawrence, Massachusetts...
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