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Weekly Leader Podcast Episode 82 – A Discussion about 42 Rules For Your New Leadership Role and The Little Book of Leadership Development

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:07 — 34.9MB) This week Weekly Leader team members Pam Fox Rollin and Scott J. Allen discuss their recent books: 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role (kindle) and The Little Book of Leadership Development (kindle). How to Receive Feedback (1-pager by Pam) Contact Info Send comments to podcast@weeklyleader.net Audio [...]

Born/Made – Yes!

Are leaders born or made?  Scholar Richard Arvey found that among twins, leadership is 30 percent genetic/born and 70 percent learned/environmental. Pretty interesting. We can also turn to the work of K. Anders Ericsson and his colleagues which may get to the heart of developing leadership in yourself and others… “People believe that because expert performance [...]

Leadership Q&A: How Can I Become A Better Leader in 2011?

Leading organizations is complex. It is a multi-dimensional experience that requires many different skills and abilities. I suspect that each one of us needs to grow in our leadership capacity. The question that we should ask is”: How can I become a better leader in 2011 without becoming overwhelmed by the process of learning? The [...]

Work Life Lead: The Subversiveness of Gratitude

Maybe I shouldn’t let the cat out of the bag, or Pandora out of her box, but the practice gratitude is subversive.  Just as The Cluetrain Manifesto theses #7 asserts – Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy – so does gratitude. Gratitude is subversive because it changes relationships, especially those in organizations where hierarchy rules. In many of [...]

How to Use Employee Performance Appraisals to Facilitate Employee Growth & Development (Guest Post)

Weekly Leader welcomes guest posts. If you are interested in contributing leadership focused content, please send an email to editor@weeklyleader.net. One of the important roles for managers and leaders is to support the growth and development of their employees. One of the chief tools they use for this is the employee performance appraisal. But because [...]

Weekly Leader Podcast Episode 67 | Weekly Leader iPhone App

Long overdue, here’s a vidcast of the new Weekly Leader Podcast iPhone app. It’s the best way to stay connected to your leadership learning at Weekly Leader. We have a  iTunes store coupon that we’ll be giving away over the next few weeks.  Of course, we hope you buy the app, which at $1.99 is [...]

Leadership Q&A: An Organic System

The main challenge that most leaders face today is trying to incorporate new ideas and work collaboratively within the hierarchical organizational structures of the past. There is a perception that the way organizations are organized is set, fixed, given, and unchangeable. This is not so. Every system is simply a product of human decisions that [...]

Weekly Leader Podcast 56 | Jim Kouzes, The Leadership Challenge

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:01:59 — 28.4MB) Jim Kouzes, co-author of The Leadership Challenge, talks with Peter about his books, tools and leadership in general plus Pam’s Research Report of the Week, another leadership  iPhone app and more great podsafe music. Thanks to our sponsor! GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just [...]

Work Life Lead: The Horizon of Leadership

Out there, in the not-too-distant future, is a world that is unknown to us. It is different because the world has changed so dramatically in such a short period of time that we are guessing what tomorrow will be like. As leaders, the choice we make is to both simple and complex. Simple in that [...]

Weekly Leader Podcast Episode 50 – Leadership Lessons from a New England Town Meeting

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:27 — 20.8MB) Peter shares his recent experiences at a New England Town Meeting and his thoughts on leadership plus Leadership in the News, Pam’s Research Report of the Week, the Social Media Minute and more great podsafe music. Thanks to our sponsor! GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online [...]

Leadership Q&A: The 7 Virtues as Business Development Strategy

In my two recent columns, I have begun to describe what I’m calling the 7 Virtues of the 21st Century organization. These 7 virtues are values that can be applied to any organizational structure to improve it. The 7 Virtues are: 1. Collaboratively-led 2. Decentralized, local control 3. Long tail internal operational structures 4. Purpose-driven [...]

Work Life Lead: The 5 C’s of Lessons In Leadership

A few years back, a friend of mine, John, told me that he had a vision for Asheville, where we live and work, to become a center for leadership development. He shared this with me as he began to introduce me to a group that had just formed called Lessons In Leadership. The purpose of [...]

Twitter Leadership Follow Friday Project (@CEO_INGDirect @JohnBRogers @Nilofer)

Last week we launched Weekly Leader’s Leadership Follow Friday Project with @WallyBock, @Tom_Peters and my podcasting partner @PamFR. To recap: We’re going to present our FollowFriday choices here on the website because it’ll offer a few more characters to help develop the “character” of the Twitterers we think you should follow from a leadership perspective. [...]

Leader Killers – Who to Fire, and Why

A bad manager can be a killer of a great leader.

Twitter Leadership FollowFriday Project (@WallyBock @Tom_Peters @PamFR)

Sometimes 140 characters are just not enough! That’s all Twitter gives you to communicate an idea. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the challenge of finding a way to efficiently and economically express an idea. But sometimes you just need more than what they give. Traditionally (that is, if there can be tradition associated with [...]

Weekly Leader recognized as Mover & Shaker by Post Rank

Our friend Becky Robinson over at the great Leader Talk blog at Mountain State University’s School of Leadership and Professional Development sent us a tweet today congratulating us on our PostRank listing. That was news to us so we checked it out and were thrilled to learn that we were recognized as the Mover & [...]

Leadership Q&A: Thinking Clearly

One of the most universal issues that I have found in my work with leaders and their organizations is the issue of communication. I have yet to meet a leader or an organization that is not challenged by the demands of communication. In this column, I want to address one aspect of communication, the need [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29

Work Life Lead: Try by Dr. Ed Brenegar http://weeklyleader.net/iZ9Q # Looking back @ past wk, had great time @ 1st USCGPodCamp Thanks @MVittone @simplydan @pastinson @kahood @benjaminstrong @veryuseful #uscgpc # @steveroesler Thanks for the RT! in reply to steveroesler # “Women will never be equal to men – http://bit.ly/4qxgB3 -@mvittone # “Women will Never be [...]

Leadership Q&A: A Leader’s Guide to Social Media

Social media has swept across the world so quickly that there is no longer any choice about whether to participate or not. Some of the platforms that are used are Facebook, Twitter, weblogs, email, LinkedIn, Ning and Groupsite. Each has it own purpose and use for assisting organizations to develop the social aspect of their [...]

Weekly Leader Podcast 18 – Part 1 – Trey Gowdy, South Carolina District Attorney and Candidate for US Congress

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:44 — 46.4MB) Peter interviews South Carolina District Attorney and candidate for US Congress Trey Gowdy. Pam’s Research Report of the Week, “Who’s with Me? False Consensus, Advice Networks, and Ethical Decision Making in Organizations” which comes to us from our Website of the Week, MIT Sloan [...]

Becoming Strong on Strengths

“Tell me about your team,” I started. The CEO, who had called me to help create decision-making processes for his senior leadership, said, “I have two stars – Ops and HR. CFO is new, and the jury is out. Sales I promoted too soon… I’m looking right now for a new EVP-Sales.” “And the other [...]

Take 5: Listen, Think, Prioritize, Act

This post is inspired by an astonishing story from NPR’s On the Media podcast. If you want more detail than I provide here, you’ll find listening well worth your time, as is the related New York Times article. I also talked with Peter Mello about this in our Weekly Leader Podcast 7. Here’s the skeleton [...]

Are you rocking or missing the boat? (HarvardBusiness Blogs)

Being a former professional mariners and a person whose entire career has been connected to the sea, it’s no surprise that I enjoyed the maritime metaphors that populated Bill Taylor’s post today (May 18, 2009) in his Practically Radical blog over at HarvardBusiness.org Voices. (Recession Leadership: On Sinking the Boat, Missing the Boat, and Rocking [...]

5 Tips to Get the Feedback You Need Now

Leaders need more feedback than ever – and they’re less likely to get it. You need more feedback because chances are, if you still have your leadership job, you’re doing what used to be two or three jobs. Regional sales VPs are now also running channel partnerships. The US director of R&D has taken on [...]

The C.E.O. Job Map and Leadership Advice from Amgen’s Kevin Sharer

Adam Bryant recently interviewed Amgen Chairman, CEO and President Kevin Sharer for the Corner Office column of the Business section of The New York Times. (Feedback in Heaping Helpings – March 28, 2009)  The article offers some great insights into leadership at the highest level in a fast changing industry and practical advice for leaders [...]