A few weeks ago I got into a conversation about whether situational leadership was more appropriate for top-level or front-line leadership. I argued that situational leadership is most appropriate for front-line leadership. To be more specific, I believe that the front-line is about management and situational leadership is about how to manage, not necessarily lead, [...]
Strengths-Based Leadership Theory (also known as Strengths-Based Organizational Management or SBOM) is a method of maximizing the efficiency, productivity, and success of an organization by focusing on and continuously developing the strengths of organizational resources, such as computer systems, tools, and people. At the core of the strengths-based leadership is the underlying belief that people [...]
I have a friend whose boss makes his life miserable. This boss takes no interest in my friend’s professional development or how he can develop as an engineer. Once during dinner, my friend asked me how such an incompetent manager could have been promoted in the first place.
The answer is explained by the Peter Principle.
Professor [...]
A common trend by popular authors is to describe leadership by defining the difference between managers and leaders. In the most famous example, Bennis and Goldsmith (1997) assert that managers do things right, while leaders do the right things. This is a short description, but not all that descriptive. Buckingham (2005) claims that great managers [...]
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David Burkus is the editor of LeaderLab, a community of resources dedicated to promoting the practice of leadership theory. He is an executive coach, a sought-after speaker and an adjunct professor of business at several universities.