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- Through Their Own Words: Towards a New Understanding of Leadership through Metaphors
- This article suggests that metaphors are essential to understanding leadership. Metaphors can serve as underlying organizing structures of leadership thinking and experience, and they can be mobilized in order to accomplish interpersonal goals. The literature on leadership abounds with metaphors such as leadership as game, sports, art or machine. While...
- White papers 2002-10-01
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- Timeless Leadership Principles
- A key part of the continuous leadership quest is finding the approaches that fit our individual values, personality and style. No one leadership size fits all. It is like trying to find a path in a field of newly fallen snow. This article gives a business leadership model. The leadership...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Darwinian School of Leadership
- This paper talks about two TV shows that are each a metaphor for a particular style of leadership commonly practiced in many large organizations. Looking at leadership in business, one sees a clear parallel to these current icons of pop culture. It is the Darwinian School of Leadership, the survival...
- White papers
- The Rhetoric of Leadership: The Competition Toward Environmental Friendliness
- As taking environmental consideration may be considered to be a bizarre activity for organization actors, efforts to present environmental activities as business-as-usual emerge. A dominating rhetoric used by environmental advocates is the metaphor of competition. Environmental adaptation is a race; rewards for the winners include more innovative product development, barriers...
- White papers 2003-04-16
- Sports as leadership metaphor. (Viewpoint).(Brief Article)
- Sports permeate our organizational language with metaphors spilling over into the everyday business-speak. Whether we're going out to "beat the other guys" or we say we "struck out" or "hit a home run" or "we're pum Sports permeate our organizational language with metaphors spilling over...
- Research articles 2002-06-17
- Is Selling Warfare?
- The final page of yesterday’s New York Times book review contained an article about the guilty pleasure of reading bad books that specifically cited, as one of the worst examples of the breed, “Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun.” That book indeed a stinker of cosmic proportions was one...
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Leading From the Rear
- I've just consulted my paper-based(!) American Heritage dictionary on the word lead. The first definition reads, "To show the way to by going in advance." But should leaders also think about directing from the rear? Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill is studying...
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- GSK Employees Really Love Their Boss's Book -- It's "Better Than Harvard"!
- Stephen Stefano, one of GlaxoSmithKline's senior executives in charge of commercial strategy, has written a book about leadership. It's called Passion and ICE. And, according to the employees and business partners of the senior-vice-president-of-managed-markets-and-neurohealth-divisions-turned-motivational speaker, Steve's book is totally awesome! Here's a selection of the completely unbiased,...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- The "Maestro" Executive: "Any Asino Can Conduct - But to Make Music? Eh? Is Difficile!"
- A "Maestro" is defined as a "Master of an Art." It is a term usually reserved for master conductors, and is used as a term of respect. However, as leadership itself is an art, it would seem logical to assume that there are master leaders, who might also be appropriately...
- White papers 2004-05-04
- How Great Leaders Motivate Through Inspiration
- (Today's post is a guest column from Dov Seidman.) I am often asked, "Who do you believe is an ideal example of a 21st-century leader?" Let me introduce you to a man who I believe embodies the leadership characteristics we all need to adopt...
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- Clearings In The Forest
- Clearings In The Forest Nathan Harter Purdue University Press 509 Harrison St, West Lafayette IN 47907 1557533814 $29.95 thepress.purdue.edu Clearings In The Forest: On The Study Of Leadership by Nathan Harter (Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership, Purdue University) employs the metaphor of a forest to...
- Research articles 2006-08-01
- Be a Great Leader -- and Have a Life
- Total Leadership is about having a richer life, but work/life balance is the wrong metaphor. It signifies trade-offs, gaining in one area at the expense of another. The essence of being real, of acting with authenticity, is in knowing what you care about and then doing your best to be...
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Managing Toward the "Ideal Future"
- Managing Toward the "Ideal Future"The future?Both the ideal future and the expected future are red herrings. We need to aim for a future that doesn't take us by surprise, and you don't get that by starting in the present and extrapolating out into the future (both ideal and expected futures...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life | HBR IdeaCast
- When it comes to work life, Stewart Friedman says, "Balance is the wrong metaphor because it implies trade-offs." To bring more passion to their work, managers need to integrate work, home, community, and self. Friedman discusses how to truly integrate those elements through introspection, discussion, and experimentation. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- B-School Profs on Students as Customers, the Trouble With Brainstorming, and More
- This week, we take a look at blogs written by business school professors: "Student as customer" metaphor chaps his hide -- Dr. Gad Saad, associate professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, offers a rant on the Psychology Today blog about...
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- AP's Tom Curley: 'We Are Not Going To Work With Everybody'
- Two of the most vocal proponents for changing the way news and information are distributed took their message to the World Media Summit in Beijing today. We posted the full text earlier of News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s take on the “Philistines” of news (his own tribe...
- External links 2009-10-09
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